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An essay concerning law, social identity, inequality, conflict, crime, warfare
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Introduction--Humanity's entry into the post-Darwinian era
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on the unborn [4]. We have developed genetically modified foods, and have mixed
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economic means to greatly reduce?if not altogether prevent?the dangers and
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the possible attendant social and economic consequences, such as the
possibility of the richest rich, as post corporeal beings, so rapidly consuming
the world's resources, the poorest poor are starved out of existence. It will
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