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 |
Im Buch
... causes of life are in the transgenerational evolutionary process stretching back three billion years to the first self - replicating entity . It follows that ultimate interests do not reside in individual survival but in the ...
... cause of our existence . Individ- ual humans are links in a chain of life stretching back millions of generations of human and prehuman species that managed to perpetuate their genes . A devel- opmental program coded in the genes and ...
... cause them to continue to promote proximate interests that no longer serve fitness . For most of humans ' evolu- tionary history , adaptations tracked slow - moving environmental change , in- cluding technological advances . In the ...
... causing altruism to be directed towards genetically dis- tant individuals . Due to modern economic pressures the extended family is often dispersed and plays a reduced role as an economic unit , further reducing invest- ment in kin ...
... causes of its existence and conditions of survival . At the beginning of the twenty - first century , with the human ... cause is partly scien- tific and partly political and ideological.22 The pace of scientific progress is uneven ...
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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