Disentangling humans
Genetics and environment as the basis of explaining the self and society
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Disentangling humans
Genetics and environment as the basis of explaining the self and society
About this book
This is a bold, thought-provoking exploration of the gaps in our understanding of the ethical, philosophical, and political ramifications of our genetics and how they are shaped by our environments.
Disentangling humans synthesizes life and social sciences, and the humanities, into a philosophical understanding of humans in terms of wellbeing, sociality and ethics.
Drawing from the fields of classical genetics, evolutionary biology and sociopsychology, and infused with references to classic literature and popular art, Dr Apidianakis examines the following questions through the lenses of DNA:
1. Is it more meaningful to predict the disease prospects of each individual or to indiscriminately prevent disease from happening?
2. Are there biological limits in achieving the humanitarian ideal of human equality? That is, are there inerasable inequalities among people?
3. Can we be determined by our genes and environments and still be responsible for our actions?
4. Are we more behaviorally free when following our hearts or when planning for the future?
5. When we punish people, should we be aiming to pacify the victim or rectify the prospective perpetrator?
6. Which should guide our politics and ethics, our ideals or our universal behavioral attributes?
7. What does it mean to be human?
The book is a flow of ten interlinked chapters intended for the scholar, the student, and the layperson alike. It is a source of information and arguments helping to understand the human condition from the perspective of genetics..
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Table of contents
- Credits
- Foreword | Our phenotypes, the observable manifestations of our traits, deserve explanations
- 1 | Why genetics should matter to me: The reading of the Human Book of Genesis is environmentally biased
- 2 | Peoples Prosperity: The Book of Genesis is read by the Environment, but is interpreted based on Environmental History
- 3 | Cancer: Environmental History reads and rewrites our Books of Genesis
- 4 | Human intelligence: Our Books of Genesis are read the most when we have it all; while read the least when our brains have nothing to eat
- 5 | Social human behavior: The Book of Genesis is a must read for shaping human-suited politics and social justice
- 6 | How much of our culture and thinking is written in our Books of Genesis? Humanities (the human ways), Termitities (the termite ways) and the pyramid of knowledge
- 7 | How different is the Book of Genesis between Humans and other Animals or Computers?
- 8 | What is wrong with our Book of Genesis and its readership? Reconciling “think for yourself” with “don’t believe what you think”
- 9 | Can we use the Book of Genesis to find happiness? The pursuit of human happiness as the pursuit of human nature.
- 10 | On being humble and amazed: how our growing knowledge should humble us without seizing to amaze us for its complexity and its beauty.
- Afterword
- Acknowledgements
- Addenda
- NOTES & FURTHER READING
- About the author