ARTICLES

Male Age Composition and Severity of Conflicts
Christian G. Mesquida and Neil I. Wiener 181

The Kankakee Wetlands: A Case Study in Ethics and Public Policy
Sarah E. Roberts 191

Protecting Humanityís Future: Threat, Response, and Debate
Gary Bryner 201

Show or Schau?
Heiner Benking 203

Is Humanity Destined?
Herman E. Daly 206

Pluralism and the Complexity of Knowledge
Bruna De Marchi 208

Social Choices for Sustainability: A Question of Equity and Justice
Lorraine Elliott 210

Universal Basic and Secondary Education
Joel E. Cohen and David E. Bloom 213

Only Politics Can Save Us
Gerard Fairtlough 216

Sustainability, the New Challenge of Governance, and Post-Normal Science
Mario Giampietro 218

Humanityís Survival is a Matter of Environmental Common Sense
Max Falque 222

Is the Third World Destined To Be the First One?
Renato Guimaraes, Jr. 223

The Persistence of the Species
Garrett Hardin 225

Back to Basics in Environmental Politics
Sheila Jasanoff 227

Toward a Self-Critical Environmentalism
Martin W. Lewis 229

Human Race at Crossroads
T. N. Khoshoo 232

Can Humanity Avoid Self-Destruction?
Mohamed Kassas 235

An Issue We Ignore at Our Peril
Kai N. Lee 237

Democracy and the Integrity of Commons
Lennart J. Lundqvist 239

Paradoxes of Progress: How Can Humanity Improve Environmental Thinking and Environmental Action?
Giridhari Lal Pandit 241

Causes of Troubles in the Struggle for Existence
Tatu Vanhanen 242

Integrative Science as Adaptive Device in Environmental Crisis: A Perspective from Ecology
Carlos Martin-Cantarino 244

Is Humanity Destined to Self-Destruct? Our Predicament: We Canít Know Enough to Know
Donald N. Michael 247

Will Malnutrition and Diseases Limit Human Numbers?
David Pimentel and Marcia Pimentel 251

Is There a Common Humanity?
Yvonne Rydin 253

Cancer-Risk Models and Statistical Casualties: Caldwell and the Need for Public-Interest Science
Kristin Shrader-Frechette 255

Learning the Lesson of Interdependence
Leslie Paul Thiele 257

Outliers and Advocates: Glimmers of Hope for the New Millennium?
S. Holly Stocking 261

Environmental Politics at Thirty: Caldwell, Churchill, and an Unruly World
Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith 263

The Hare and the Tortoise: Dead in the Heat? Cross-National Differences and Knowledge Gaps in Environmental Policy
Nicholas Watts 266

Perspectives on the Self-Destructive Tendencies of Humanity: A Symposium Response
Lynton Keith Caldwell 269

Racism: A Central Problem for the Human Genome Diversity Project
Joseph S. Alper and Jon Beckwith 285

The Human Genome Diversity Project as a Complement to Human Population Genetics
James E. Bowman 289

The HGDP Can Be and Should Be Pursued in Harmony with Its Subjects: An Account of the Israeli Experience
Batsheva Bonne-Tamir 291

Itís More Than The Human Genome Diversity Project
Frank C. Dukepoo 293

The Overlooked Ethics of the Human Genome Diversity Project
Henry T. Greely 297

Is There a Need for the HGDP, Now That the HGP Is Interested in Human Variation?
Fatimah L.C. Jackson 300

The Devil, The Details, and the HGDP
Michael Harkin 301

Human Population Genetics versus the HGDP
Debra Harry and Jonathan Marks 303

The HGDP in the Best Possible World
Nils Holtug 306

Ethics and the Human Genome Diversity Project: An African Perspective
Trefor Jenkins 308

Time Changes All Things, Yet There Is Nothing New under the Sun: The Transience of Ethical Norms
Y. Edward Hsia 312

Experience and Preliminary Results in Human Genome Diversity Research
Kenneth K. Kidd and Judith R. Kidd 314

The Human Genome Diversity Project: Cogitations of an African Native
Felix I.D. Konotey-Ahulu 317

The HGDP and the Politics of Bioethics
Margaret Lock 323

Ethical Opportunities Offered by the Human Genome Diversity Project
Darryl R.J. Macer 325

Reflections on The Human Genome Diversity Project
Hilary Rose 328

Global Human Diversity and Ethics
Francisco M. Salzano 330

The Human Genome Diversity Project: Ethical Concerns
Udo Schüklenk 332

Legitimate and Illegitimate Views of the HGDP
Kenneth M. Weiss 334

A Needed Boost for the HGDP
Dorothy C. Wertz 336

The Hazards of Studying Human Genetic Variation
David B. Resnik 338

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (Edward O. Wilson)
Reviewed by Jean Bethke Elshtain, Howard L. Kaye, Michael Ruse; with a response by Edward O. Wilson 341

The Perfect Baby: A Pragmatic Approach to Genetics (Glenn McGee)
Robert H. Blank 353

Enhancing the Biological Weapons Convention (Oliver Thränert, ed.)
Eric Croddy 355

The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change (Richard Somerville)
Michael M. Gunter, Jr. 356

Biotechnology, Patents and Morality (Sigrid Sterckx, ed.)
Mark J. Hanson 358

Enhancing Human Traits: Ethical and Social Implications (Erik Parens, ed.)
Carson Strong 360

Biologische Waffen: Nicht in Hitlers Arsenalen (Erhard Geissler)
Oliver Thränert 362

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