TY - BOOK AU - Adrian J. Desmond AU - James R Moore TI - Darwin's Sacred Cause Race Slavery & quest for Human Origins SN - 9781846140358 U1 - 306.36208996 DES-D PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Allen Lane/ Penguin Books KW - Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Ethics. Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Political and social views. Human evolution -- Philosophy. N2 - 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. ER -