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Can Humanity Avoid Self-Destruction?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Mohamed Kassas*
Affiliation:
University of Cairo, Egypt
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Symposium: Humanity and Self-Destruction
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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