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

Frank Kemp Salter

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9781412805964: On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration
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ISBN 10: 1412805961 ISBN 13: 9781412805964
Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1412805961
ISBN 13 
9781412805964
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
388
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