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Volume 1 (2016) Nature's Humans

Introduction
Erik Liddell

The Chautauqua Journal, Complete Volume 1: Nature's Humans

Section 1: Philosophical and Cultural Investigations

Ethics and Animals: Extending Ethics Beyond Our Own Species
Peter Singer

Lessons from Animal Sentience: Towards a New Humanity
Jonathan Balcombe

Ethics Beyond Sentience
Matthew Pianalto

Folk Ontology and the Moral Standing of Animals
Justin E. H. Smith

Natural Law, God, and Human Dignity
Robert George

Section 2: Artistic Explorations

Nature's Humans, the National Juried Art Exhibition
Esther E. Randall

Poems: Salutation / Sightings; Or, Mr. Redhead / The Map; Or, Perhaps
Harry Brown

Poems: Alaska On My Mind / To My Mother For Loving the Rain
Dorothy Moseley Sutton

Poem: Black Berry
Frank X. Walker

Poems: October Burial / Drowned Man's Cross: Grande Isle, Louisiana / Here There Was A Stool With a Crooked Leg / Eighteen Small Realist Studies / In the Suicide's Top Drawer
Young Smith

At the Bottom
Julie Hensley

Wind, Water, Wall-Woman
Trinh T. Minh-Ha

Nature's Humans: Presence, Absence, Transformation -- Photography Selected by Chris Jackson
Chris Jackson

Section 3: Scientific Interventions

Thomas Jefferson Versus Count Buffon: The Theory of New World Degeneracy
Lee Alan Dugatkin

Bonobo Mirror Project
Laura L. Newhart Ph.D.

Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
Carol Kaesuk Yoon

Forging Fresh Food Chains in the Americas
Lisa B. Markowitz

Avoiding Extinction
Graciela Chichilnisky

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Editors

Editors-in-Chief: Erik Liddell; Minh Nguyen
Editorial Assistants: Katie Brooks; Matthew Thacker
Editorial Board: Russell Helms; Nhi Huynh; Chris Jackson; Matthew Pianalto