Desmond, Adrian: Darwin's Sacred Cause

Name: Desmond, Adrian: Darwin's Sacred Cause
Brand: Penguin Books
SKU: 978-0-14-103220-7
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Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins

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Darwin was committed to the abolition of slavery, in part because of his family's deeply held beliefs. Written by world authorities on Darwin, this title gives a completely new explanation of how Darwin came to his famous view of evolution, which traced all life to an ancient common ancestor.

ISBN: 978-0-14-103220-7

GTIN: 9780141032207

Über den Autor Desmond, Adrian

Adrian Desmond has written seven other books on evolution and Victorian science, including an acclaimed biography, Huxley. An Honorary Research Fellow in the Biology Department at University College London, he is editing (with Angela Darwin) The T. H. Huxley Family Correspondence.James Moore's books include The Post-Darwinian Controversies and The Darwin Legend. He is Professor of the History of Science at the Open University and currently researching the life of Alfred Russel Wallace.