Darwin's sacred cause
Subtitle: how a hatred of slavery shaped Darwin's view on human evolution
By: Adrian Desmond & James Moore
Contributors: Moore, James R. (James Richard), 1947-
Edition: University of Chicago Press ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226144511
Other titles: How a hatred of slavery shaped Darwin's views on human evolution
Notes: Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The intimate "Blackamoor"; title: Racial numbskulls; title: All nations of one blood; title: Living in slave countries; title: Common descent: from the father of man to the father of all mammals; title: Hybridizing humans; title: This odious deadly subject; title: Domestic animals and domestic institutions; title: Oh for shame Agassiz!; title: The contamination of Negro blood; title: The secret science drifts from its sacred cause; title: Cannibals and the Confederacy in London; title: The descent of the races.