Books in the The Hastings Center Series in Ethics series

hope of obtaining a comprehensive and coherent understand ing of the human condition, we must somehow weave together the biological, sociological, and psychological components of human nature and experience.

OUR AGE IS CHARACTERIZED by an uncertainty about the na ture of moral obligations, about what one can hope for in an afterlife, and about the limits of human knowledge. Though imperfect, it is an effort to frame the unity of the human condition, which is captured in part by ethics, in part by religion, and in part by the sciences.

The social sciences playa variety of multifaceted roles in the policymaking process. More often, the categories and theoretical models of social science provide a general background orientation within which policymakers concep tualize problems and frame policy options.

I Several years ago, when the Carter administration announced that it would support congressional action to end the public fund ing of abortions, the President was asked at a press conference whether he thought that such a policy was unfair;

There is widespread agreement among large segments of western society that we are living in a period of hard times.

This volume is one outcome of a two-year study conducted by the Behavioral Studies Research Group of The Hastings 1 Center.

This volume presents a completely new and substantial body of information about the origin of agriculture and plant use in Africa. All the evidence is very recent and for the first time all this archaeobotanical evidence is brought together in one volume.