Darwin’s Sacred Cause
How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin’s Views on Human Evolution
excerpt:
"The real problem is that no one understands Darwin’s core project, the nucleus of his most inflammatory research. No one has appreciated the source of that moral fire that fuelled his strange, out-of-character obsession with human origins. Understand that and Darwin can be radically reassessed.
In sounding the depths of Darwin’s anti-slavery we have exploited a wealth of unpublished family letters and a massive amount of manuscript material….This, then, is the untold story of how Darwin’s abhorrence of slavery led to our modern understanding of evolution."
–Adrian Desmond and James Moore,
Darwin’s Sacred Cause (HMH Books, 2009)
About Drew Dellinger
Drew Dellinger, Ph.D., is an internationally known speaker, poet, writer, and teacher whose keynotes and poetry performances—which address ecology, justice, cosmology, and connectedness—have inspired minds and hearts around the world. He is also a consultant, filmmaker, and founder of Planetize the Movement.
Dellinger has presented at over 1400 events across the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. He has spoken and performed at numerous conferences—including TEDWomen, Bioneers, the Green Festival, the Dream Reborn, and the Parliament of the World’s Religions—as well as colleges and universities, poetry venues, protests, and places of worship.
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