Mining untapped sources, the authors of an acclaimedbiography of Darwin offer an astonishing new portraitof the scientific icon.In Darwin's Sacred Cause, Adrian Desmond and JamesMoore restore the missing moral core of Darwin's evolutionaryuniverse, providing a completely new account of how hecame to his shattering theories about human origins.Desmond and Moore's biography of Darwin was describedby Stephen Jay Gould as "unquestionably the finest . . . everwritten" about him. In their new book, timed to coincide withthe worldwide Darwin bicentenary celebrations,Desmond andMoore provide a major reexamination of Darwin's life andwork.Drawing on a wealth of fresh manuscripts, unpublishedletters, notebooks, diaries, and ships' logs, they argue that thedriving force behind Darwin's theory of evolution was notsimply his love of truth or personal ambition—it was his fiercehatred of slavery.Darwin's abolitionism had deep roots in hismother's family, and it was reinforced by his voyage on...

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