Darwin's Sacred Cause

Adrian Desmond and James Moore offer a completely new explanation of how Darwin arrived at his famous theory of evolution, which attributes all life forms to a remote common ancestor. According to the authors, the abolitionist ideas espoused by Darwin guided him in formulating his major scientific discoveries. Darwin attributed a common origin to all beings, freeing them from the greatest apologists for slavery, who believed that Blacks and whites had originated as separate species, with whites being superior. A memorable and original study of the greatest scientist of the 19th century.