ABSTRACT
While every human being has genetic interests, there are differences in availability of investment portfolios. In this chapter I assess the genetic portfolios of five classes of persons who find themselves in circumstances that constrain or skew optimal genetic investment in some way. The guiding question for the opening section is, how would an adaptively-minded individual distribute resources, for example between family and ethny, if he or she were married to someone from a different ethnic group or was descended from such a union? A similar question is posed in section 8.2 concerning strategies for individuals who find themselves without children. Section 8.3 assesses the genetic interests of individuals who adopt children, while section 8.4 assesses the interests of homosexuals, and 8.5 the interests of women who are torn between motherhood and careers outside the home.
