Biographies

Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins

Charles Darwin's most celebrated modern biographers give a completely new explanation of why he formulated his earth-shattering theories about human origins.

ISBN: 9781846140358

Author: Adrian Desmond and James Moore

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Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins

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In this book, authors Desmond and Moore argue that the moral fibre that gave such intensity and urgency to Darwin's ideas has gone unnoticed, until now.

The authors show how Darwin's views, which his contemporaries considered so radical, lay in his utter detestation of slavery.

The book gives a detailed examination of Darwin's manuscripts and correspondence, both published and unpublished, and covert notebooks.

Darwin's Sacred Cause will be one of the major contributions to the worldwide Darwin anniversary celebrations in 2009.