Darwin's Sacred Cause by Adrian Desmond
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.
Adrian Desmond and James Moore's No 1 best-seller Darwin (1991) won the James Tait Black Prize, the Comisso Prize for biography in Italy, the Watson Davis Prize of the US History of Science Society and the Dingle Prize of the British Society for the History of Science. It was shortlisted for the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award and the Rhône-Poulenc Prize and has been widely translated. Adrian Desmond has written seven other books on evolution and Victorian science, including an acclaimed biography, Huxley. An Honorary Research Fellow in the Biology Department at University College London, he is editing (with Angela Darwin) The T. H. Huxley Family Correspondence. James Moore's books include The Post-Darwinian Controversies and The Darwin Legend. He is Professor of the History of Science at the Open University and currently researching the life of Alfred Russel Wallace.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846140358 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846140358 |
| Title | Darwin's Sacred Cause |
| Author | Adrian Desmond |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-01-29 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
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