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its troops Hatred of slavery drove Darwin ideas, book says
LONDON Jan 23 (Reuters) - A new book on Charles Darwin says a
passionate hatred of slavery was fundamental to his theory of
evolution, which challenged the assumption held by many at the
time that blacks and whites were separate species. "Darwin's
Sacred Cause" is among the first of dozens of works about the
19th century scientist to appear in 2009, the bicentenary of his
birth and 150th anniversary of the publication of his
groundbreaking "On the Origin of Species". Its authors, Adrian
Desmond and James Moore, also expect it to be one of the most
controversial, because it explores what they call Darwin's
humanitarianism and challenges the notion that h