ARTICLES

Pathogen Proliferation: Threats from the Former Soviet Bioweapons Complex
Kathleen Vogel 3

Parental Investment as a Game of Chicken
Satoshi Kanazawa and Mary Still 17

Sustainability and the Future of Humankind: Two Competing Theories of Infinite Substitutability
John Cairns, Jr. 27

The Best Interests of the Child in Assisted Human Reproduction: The Interplay between the State, Professionals, and Parents
Ken R. Daniels, Eric Blyth, Darrel Hall and Kathy M. Hanson 33

Varieties of Secrets and Secret Varieties: The Case of Biotechnology
Susan Wright and David A. Wallace 45

Does Ethnic Conflict Pay?
Paul Rubin 59

Secrecy Among Israeli Recipients of Donor Insemination
Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Yoram S. Carmeli, and Haim Yavetz 69

Federal Uncertainty or Inconsistency? Releasing the New Agricultural-Environmental Biotechnology into the Fields
Patrick Stewart and A. Ann Sorenson 77

Inaccuracy and Bias in Textbooks Reporting Psychiatric Research: The Case of the Schizophrenia Adoption Studies
Jay Joseph 89

Margaret Meadís Coming of Age in Samoa and Boasian Culturalism
Derek Freeman 100

The Sociobiology of Democracy: Is Authoritarianism in Our Genes?
Peter A. Corning 104

The Morning after Earth Day: Practical Environmental Politics (Mary Graham)
Gary E. Marchant 109

Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior (Bobbi S. Low)
Laura Betzig 111

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do (J. R. Harris)
Peter K. Smith 112

Coming of Age in American Anthropology: Margaret Mead and Paradise (Malopaíupo Isaia)
Hiram Caton 114

The Anthropology of Cannibalism (Lawrence R. Goldman)
W. C. McGrew 116

Preventing the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: What Role for Arms Control?
A German-American Dialogue (Oliver Thraenert)
Henrietta Wilson 117

The Evolving Female: A Life-History Perspective (Mary E. Morbeck, Allison Galloway, and Adrienne L. Zihlman)
Linda Mealey 119

Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence (Aaron T. Beck)
Sven van de Wetering 120

The Definition of Death: Contemporary Controversies (Stuart J. Youngner, Robert M. Arnold, and Renie Schapiro)
Ronald Munson 122

Behavioral Genetics: The Clash of Culture and Biology
(Ronald Carson and Mark Rothstein)
Ira H. Carmen 124

Preventing Prenatal Harm: Should the State Intervene?
(Deborah Mathieu)
Adrienne Asch 126

Biological Warfare: Modern Offense and Defense (Raymond A. Zilinskas)
Malcolm Dando 128

The Global Environment: Institutions, Law, and Policy (Norman J. Vig and Regina S. Axelrod)
Michael M. Gunter, Jr. 129

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