1st Edition

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

Edited By Frank Salter Copyright 2007
388 Pages
by Routledge

388 Pages
by Routledge

388 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

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