Darwin's Sacred Cause Race Slavery & quest for Human Origins

By:

Adrian J. Desmond

Contributor(s):

James R Moore

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Allen Lane/ Penguin Books 2009Description: xxi, 484 pages : illustrations, mapsISBN:

9781846140358

Subject(s):

Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Ethics. Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Political and social views. Human evolution -- Philosophy

DDC classification:

306.36208996 DES-D

Summary: Offers an explanation of how Darwin came to his famous view of evolution, which traced life to an ancient common ancestor. This title argues that only by understanding Darwin's Christian abolitionist inheritance can we shed light on the perplexing mix of personal drive, public hesitancy and scientific radicalism.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	306.36208996 DES-D (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		DCB1155

Offers an explanation of how Darwin came to his famous view of evolution, which traced life to an ancient common ancestor. This title argues that only by understanding Darwin's Christian abolitionist inheritance can we shed light on the perplexing mix of personal drive, public hesitancy and scientific radicalism.

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