Darwin's sacred cause : how a hatred of slavery shaped Darwin's views on human evolution / Adrian De...
Darwin's sacred cause : how a hatred of slavery shaped Darwin's views on human evolution / Adrian De...
Darwin's sacred cause : how a hatred of slavery shaped Darwin's views on human evolution / Adrian Desmond & James Moore.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Date
2009.
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N306.36208/2
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English
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xxi, 484 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
The intimate 'Blackamoor' -- Racial numb-skulls -- All nations of one blood -- Living in slave countries-- Common descent : from the father of man to the father of all mammals -- Hybridizing humans -- This odious deadly subject -- Domestic animals and domestic institutions -- Oh for shame Agassiz! -...
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
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Massachusetts
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2009.
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There is a mystery surrounding Darwin: How did this quiet, respectable gentleman, a pillar of his parish, come to embrace one of the most radical ideas in the history of human thought? Darwin risked a great deal in publishing his theory of evolution, so something very powerful--a moral fire--must have propelled him. That moral fire, argue authors D...
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Darwin's sacred cause : how a hatred of slavery shaped Darwin's views on human evolution / Adrian Desmond & James Moore.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 422-456) and index.
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N306.36208/2
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74VM04koGkQd
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0547055269
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306.36208996017521
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991001870699702626
