author : Ben R. Finney

The papers are arranged in five sections: Resources: Human, Technological, and Cosmic; Demography and Economics: Growth of the Human Tribe; Migrating Societies; Speciation; Is Anybody Home?

Contents

• Ben R. Finney, Eric M. Jones.

The Exploring Animal

• William K. Hartmann.

The Resource Base in Our Solar System

• David Brin.

Rocs' Eggs and Spider Webs: The First Hard Step Toward Building Starships

• David R. Criswell.

Solar System Industrialization: Implications for Interstellar Migrations

• Eric M. Jones, Ben R. Finney.

Fastships and Nomads: Two Roads to the Stars

• J. B. Birdsell.

Biological Dimensions of Small, Human Founding Populations

• Kenneth W. Wachter.

Predicting Demographic Contours of an Interstellar Future

• William A. Hodges.

The Division of Labor and Interstellar Migration: A Response to Demographic Contours

• Eric M. Jones, Ben R. Finney.

Comment on Hodges's "The Division of Labor"

• Ben R. Finney.

Voyagers into Ocean Space

• Richard B. Lee.

Models of Human Colonization: San, Greeks, and Vikings

• Ben R. Finney.

The Prince and the Eunuch

• Alfred W. Crosby.

Life (With All Its Problems) in Space

• Nancy Makepeace Tanner.

Interstellar Migration: The Beginning of a Familiar Process in a New Context

• Douglas W. Schwartz.

The Colonizing Experience: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

• Edward Regis.

The Moral Status of Multigenerational Interstellar Exploration

• James W. Valentine.

The Origins of Evolutionary Novelty and Galactic Colonization

• Michael H. Hart.

Interstellar Migration, the Biological Revolution, and the Future of the Galaxy

• William I. Newman, Carl Sagan.

Nonlinear Diffusion and Population Dynamics

• Jill Tarter.

Planned Observational Strategy for NASA's First Systematic Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)