On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity, And Humanity in an Age of Mass MigrationTransaction Publishers, 01.10.2006 - 388 Seiten 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. "[This] is a fresh and deep contribution to the sociobiology of humans, combining genetics with social science in original ways."--Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University "The book greatly expands Hamiltonian kin selection' by making ethnies in control of territory the central arena of selfish genery' in a modern world of mass migration."--Pierre van den Berghe, University of Washington, Seattle "Salter argues that all humans have a vital interest in genetic continuity that is threatened by mass migration. Salter advocates non-aggressive universal nationalism' as part of a balanced fitness portfolio' that includes investments in three levels of genetic interests--family, ethny, and the species as a whole. The synthesis is persuasive; the policy formulations provocative."--Irenus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Max Planck Society "Five stars for Salter--he has provided us with a deep and compelling explanation of what most people know and what guides much of their behavior, but fear to acknowledge publicly."--Michael T. McGuire, UCLA "We are indeed all part of each other, as John Donne insisted even before the help of evolutionary genetics. But we are more part of some than others, and the nature of these boundaries of ethnic kinship has been ignored, avoided or denied. After Salter's virtuoso synthesis we can no longer duck these issues which become more important daily."--Robin Fox, Rutgers University |
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... Hamilton's rule , free riders , and the distribution of altruism 117 6. Allocating investment between family , ethny & humanity : optimal and actual fitness portfolios 135 7. Universal nationalism versus multiculturalism in an era of ...
... Hamilton's Rule for adaptive altruism, directing helping behaviour preferen- tially towards genetic kin, who share substantial proportions of each other's genes (Chapters 2, 3, 5). Motivational premise: Assume a fitness preserver who ...
... Hamilton's theory of inclusive fitness still applies whether genetic interests consist of unique genes or gene frequen- cies . If any branch of genetics is likely to have emotive force it is surely that which explains the evolutionary ...
... Hamilton in a famous 1964 paper . Ham- ilton showed that an individual's genetic interests are advanced not only through personal reproduction , but by aiding the reproduction of other individuals who share some of its genes , typically ...
... Hamilton's way as " inclusive fitness " it ceases to matter whether we speak of individuals maximising their inclusive fitness or of genes maximising their survival . The two formulations are mutually inter- translatable.'11 Subsequent ...
Inhalt
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Can ethnic altruism be adaptive? Hamiltons rule free riders and | 117 |
optimal | 135 |
Fitness portfolios for individuals who are intermarried of mixed | 257 |
On the ethics of defending genetic interests | 283 |
Afterword | 325 |
References | 349 |
Index | 377 |
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