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STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
STANFORD MEDICAL CENTER
300 PASTEUR DRIVE, PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94304

FEB 5 1969

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS
Brofessor Joshua Lederberg

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Molecular Biology Heredity Neurobiology Developmental Mcdicine

Mr. J. G. Harrar

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The Rockefeller Foundation.
111 West 50th Street

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saults by the fallible agents
of the state. We can more
readily tolerate the inevita-

ble minor inequities in the
allotment of positive ineen-
tives and rewards that can
achieve the same ends,

THIS MAY seem a fecbie
answer. to the population
problem in poor countries,
but their basic prob'en is
poverty. Overbreeding is no
less a consequence of their
poverty than a cause of it,
and no amount of gloomy
exhortation or diplomatic
pressure will get very far
unless accompanied by an-
swecvs to their desperate
problems of economic devel-
opment.

Knowing Prof. Hardin's
background as a biologist, I
expected him to insist that

‘action be preceded by more

detailed knowledge of the
motivational causes of over-
breeding. In middle-class
America, they miay be inter-
twined with our dismal! fail-
ure to solve the problem,
epitomized by the title of Si-

‘mone de Beauvoir’s “The

Second Sex.” What other
creative role in life do
women play after they have
dutifully produced exactly

_two children?

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