Sérgio Danilo Junho Pena
Area: Human Genetics | Social Anthropology
Collection: IEAT
ISBN: 978-85-7041-766-4
2009. 116 p.

This book is a collection of essays on individuality and human freedom, connecting science, philosophy, literature, and the social sciences. The central message is that we must build a society in which the singularity of the individual is valued and celebrated, and where there is the freedom to assume, by personal choice, a plurality of identities. This dream harmonizes with the fact, demonstrated by modern genetics, that each of us has an absolute genomic individuality that interacts with the environment to shape a unique life trajectory. In this age of clashes of civilizations and the resurgence of ethnic hatred and racism, we must discern, behind the enormous human diversity, a single species, a single family, composed of equally different individuals. This unity will be indispensable to combat and reverse the planet’s environmental degradation, which threatens the very survival of our young species.