On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration

by Frank Salter

Overview

From an evolutionary perspective, individuals have a vi- tal interest in the reproduction of their genes. Yet this interest is overlooked by social and political theory at a time when we need to steer an adaptive course through the unnatural modern world of uneven population growth and decline, global mobility, and loss of family and communal ties. In modern Darwinian theory, bearing children is only one way to reproduce. Since we share genes with our families, ethnic groups, and the species as a whole, ethnocentrism and humanism can be adaptive. They can also be hazardous when taken to extremes. On Genetic Interests canvasses strategies and ethics for conserving our genetic interests in an environmentally sustainable manner sensitive to the interests of others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351502146
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/28/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	388
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Frank Salter is an Australian political scientist who has been a researcher with the Max Planck Society, Andechs, Germany, since 1991.

Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Maps

Introduction to the TRansaction Edition

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Concepts

Part II: Strategies

Part III: Ethics

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

References

Index