ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES

    Risk Factors and Predictability of Famine in Ethiopia
    Theodore M. Vestal 187

    Commentaries

    Unexplored Territory: The Political, Bureaucratic, and Financial Constraints Affecting Recommendations for Preventing Famine in Africa
    John M. Cohen 204

    A Far Famine, Global Policy Science, and a "Truly" Conscious Species
    Jack O'Neill 209

    The Famine in Famine Research
    Carl C. Mabbs-Zeno 215

    Risk Factors and Predictability of Famine in Ethiopia: A Commentary
    R. Elango and S. Bhaskaran 219

    Author's Response

    The Full Table of Risk Factor Analysis Studies
    Theodore M. Vestal 221

    ARTICLE AND COMMENTARIES

    Biotechnology and Economic Development: The Role of the States
    John Portz and Peter Eisinger 225

    Commentaries

    The States and Biotechnology: Interests, Strategies, and Dimensions
    Mack C. Shelley, II 240

    Biotechnology, State Economic Development, and Interest Politics: A Troublesome Trinity
    William P. Browne 245

    Authors' Response

    Response from Portz and Eisinger
    John Portz and Peter Eisinger 251

    FURTHER COMMENTARIES

    In Defense of Enforcement of the Surrogate Contract: A Reply to Field
    John Lawrence Hill 253

    Response of Professor Field
    Martha A. Field 262

    BOOK REVIEWS

    The Evolution of Social Systems (John Paul Scott)
    Précis 269
    Larry Arnhart 270
    Lowry C. Fredrickson 272
    Warren D. TenHouten 275
    Karl Grammer 278

    Evolutionary Jurisprudence: Prospects and Limitations on the Use of Modern Darwinism throughout the Legal Process (John H. Beckstrom)
    Précis 282
    W. Robert Gump 283
    Robert Heineman 285
    Roger Handberg 287
    William Kitchin 289

    Hidden Illness in the White House (Kenneth R. Crispell and Carlos F. Gomez)
    Précis 292
    Hugh L'Etang 293
    Thomas C. Shevory 295
    Marvin Rintala 297
    Roy Lubit 300

    The Search for Society: Quest for a Biosocial Science and Morality (Robin Fox)
    Précis 302
    Ben G. Blount 303
    Roger D. Masters 305
    Robert L. Savage 307
    Franz M. Wuketis 308

    RECENT BOOKS AND ARTICLES 311

    LETTER TO THE EDITOR 315

    NEWS 317

     

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