Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution

Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution
ISBN-10
0547055269
ISBN-13
9780547055268
Category
Science
Pages
484
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Authors
James Moore, Adrian J. Desmond, James Richard Moore

Description

The authors of the award-winning biography Darwin explore the important influence of abolitionism and Darwin's fierce hatred of slavery on the development of his theory of evolution, in a revolutionary study that examines the scientist's theories about human origins and the moral center of his evolutionary work.

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