Beyond Population Stabilization: The Case for Dramatically Reducing Global Human Numbers
J. Kenneth Smail 183

Commentaries

The Right Incentive: How Perceived Scarcity May Stop Population Growth in Time
Virginia Deane Abernethy 193

Better Focus on the Practical Challenges Posed by Population Growth (Or, To Create a Forest You Must Plant Trees)
Tim Dyson 195

Australia: Overpopulated or Last Frontier?
Timothy F. Flannery 198

In Support of a Revolution. . .
Lindsey Grant 200

Numbers Games and Final Solutions
Betsy Hartmann 204

Future World Population: A Fundamental Unknown
Carl Haub 206

Don't Be So Far Ahead of the Band That You Can't Hear the Music
Richard D. Lamm 208

Female Education Likely to Lead to Long-Term Population Decline and Near-Term Gain in Quality of Life
Wolfgang Lutz 209

The Population/Environment Predicament: Even More Urgent than Supposed
Norman Myers 211

Reflections on the Downsizing of Humanity
Jack Parsons 213

Too Many People for Food Resources and the Environment
David Pimentel and Marcia Pimentel 217

Malthus and Mendel: Children for Happiness
M. S. Swaminathan 219

Birth Control as an International Program
Tang Re-Feng 222

The Multidimensional Nature of Population/Environmental Problems
Bruce Wallace 224

Population Growth: Large Problems, Low Visibility
Charles F. Westoff 226

Population Control: A Necessity for the Preservation of Individual Liberty
David Willey 228

Response

Population Growth Seems to Affect Everything But Is Seldom Held Responsible for Anything
J. Kenneth Smail 231

ROUNDTABLE: SOLVING ETHNIC CONFLICTS

Separation or Unity? A Model for Solving Ethnic Conflicts
Jan Tullberg and Birgitta S. Tullberg 237

Commentaries

Modelling Ethnic Conflict: Problems and Pitfalls
David Carment 249

One Size Cannot Fit All: The Case for Flexibility in Managing Ethnic Conflicts
Milton J. Esman 251

Solomon, Sovereignty, and Ethnic Conflict
Carolyn C. James and Patrick James 252

Proximate Solutions and Ultimate Analysis: Ethnic Conflicts Do Not Fit the Scheme
Vincent S.E. Falger 254

Civilized Ethnic Divorce: Yes, Please; But Is It Feasible?
J.M.G. van der Dennen 256

The Architecture of Ethnic Identity
Gary R. Johnson 257

The Illusion of a Radical Solution to Cultural Conflict When "We" and "Them" Are Part of "Us"
Ian S. Lustick 262

How Special Is Ethnic Separation as a Strategy for Resolving Conflict?
David Goetze 264

The Problem with Partition
John McGarry and Margaret Moore 266

Between Separation and Unity
Stephen Ryan 268

Secession as a Last Resort
Donald Rothchild 270

Response

Till Death Do Them Part?
Jan Tullberg and Birgitta Tullberg 273

ARTICLES

Assisted Reproduction and Reproductive Rights: The Case of In Vitro Fertilization
Robert H. Blank 279

Physician Reimbursement Mechanisms as Social Constraints: An Historical Critique of Douglass North's Theory of Institutional Evolution
Philip C. Williams 289

Commentaries

Coping with Dolly: Scenes from the National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Susan Wright 299

Creating a Clone in Ninety Days: In Search of a Cloning Policy
Andrea L. Bonnicksen 304

REPORT TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Ethical Aspects of Cloning Techniques
Group of Advisers on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology 309

CONTINUING DIALOGUE

A Balanced Paradigm of Crime Control: Programmatic and Methodological Considerations
Yuval Wolf 313

Response to Yuval Wolf
Bryan Vila 315

BOOK REVIEWS

The Eleventh Plague: The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare (Leonard A. Cole)
Kathleen C. Bailey 317

Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach (Dan Sperber)
Hiram Caton 319

The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution (Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza)
Laura Betzig 323

The Problem that Won't Go Away: Reforming U.S. Health Care Financing (Henry J. Aaron, ed.) AND Medicine, Money and Morals: Physicians' Conflict of Interest (Marc A. Rodwin)
Robert H. Blank 324

The Frankenstein Syndrome: Ethical and Social Issues in the Genetic Engineering of Animals (Bernard E. Rollin)
Jeffrey Burkhardt 326

Politics on the Endless Frontier: Postwar Research Policy in the United States (Daniel Lee Kleinman)
Franz A. Foltz 328

Making Nature, Shaping Culture: Plant Biodiversity in Global Context (Lawrence Busch, William B. Lacy, Jeffrey Burkhardt, Douglas Hemken, Jubel Moraga-Rojel, Timothy Koponen, and José de Souza Silva)
Frederick H. Buttel 329

International Environmental Politics: Protecting the Antarctic (Lorraine M. Elliott)
Christopher C. Joyner 331

Science, Politics, and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Controversy and Bias in Drug Regulation (John Abraham)
William Green 333

DNA and Destiny: Nature and Nurture in Human Behavior (R. Grant Steen)
Kevin MacDonald 335

Human Sperm Competition: Copulation, Masturbation, and Infidelity (R. Robin Baker and Mark A. Bellis)
N. Patrick Peritore 337

The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities (Philip Kitcher)
Alex Mauron 339

Evolutionary Psychiatry: A New Beginning (Anthony Stevens and John Price)
Todd K. Shackelford and Martie G. Haselton 341

Investigating the Biological Foundations of Human Morality (James P. Hurd, ed.)
John M. Strate 343

Abortion Rates in the United States: The Influence of Opinion and Policy (Matthew E. Wetstein)
Lois B. Moreland 345

Deciding Together: Bioethics and Moral Consensus (Jonathan D. Moreno)
Thomas May 347

RECENT BOOKS AND ARTICLES 349

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 353

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