Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins

Peter C. Kjærgaard

Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins

Abstract

As we are being flooded by Darwin lollipops, t-shirts, quills and stamps it is becoming increasingly difficult to be heard or seen in the commercialised celebration in 2009. Some are in the business for the science, but a lot are in it for profit. Accordingly, the Darwin industry has left the hands of scholarly specialists and been appropriated by money makers. One could not help thinking about this as, in the autumn of 2008, the publisher began hyping Darwin's Sacred Cause as ‘one of the major contributions to the worldwide Darwin anniversary celebrations in 2009'
Udgivelsesdato: February

Original language	English
Journal	History Today
Volume	59
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	62
Number of pages	1
ISSN	0018-2753
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes

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