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American Zoologist 1986 26(3):573-582; doi:10.1093/icb/26.3.573
© 1986 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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Opening Remarks: Thinking and Deciding1

JOHN A. MOORE
Department of Biology, University of California Riverside, California 92521

SYNOPSIS. Apart from providing students with the fundamental concepts and some of the data supporting these concepts, an introductory university course in biology should suggest ways of thinking about important human problems that relate to biology. Most of these problems such as abortion, genetic engineering, right to life, environmental pollution, and overuse of natural resources, have no single solution that will be accepted by all people. Science cannot specify what the solution should be—that must be a human choice. However, the data and procedures of science can be invaluable in helping human beings make informed choices and, once a choice has been made, make more probable the achieving of the desired goal.


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