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Interestingly, Charles Darwin was born a very lightly pigmented
man, in a moderately-to-darkly pigmented world. Over the course
of his life, Darwin had great privilege. He lived in a fairly
wealthy home. He was raised by very supportive and interested
parents. And when he was in his 20s he embarked upon a
remarkable voyage on the ship the Beagle. And during the course
of that voyage, he saw remarkable things: tremendous diversity
of plants and animals, and humans. And the observations that he
made on that epic journey were to be eventually distilled into
his wonderful book, "On the Origin of Species," published 150
years ago. Now what is so interesting and to some, the extent,
what's a bit infamous about "The Origin of Species," is that
there is only one line in it about human evolution. "Light will
be thrown on the origin of man and his history." It wasn't until
much longer, much later, that Darwin actually spoke and wrote
about humans. Now in his yea