Date for zoom meeting TBA - : The Book that Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation, by Randall Fuller

Reviewed in: 

The Humanist


The Atlantic

New York Times

Companion book recommended by Ken:

The Darwinian Revolution by Michael Ruse
(contains some fascinating insights into how Darwin and some of his contemporaries struggled with the conflict between their science and the religion that most of them were brought up with.)

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1 comment:

ken Ingham, admin. said...

This is must reading for anyone interested in the historical roots of racism. Darwin's Origin of Species hit the eastern seaboard just as the abolitionist movement was coming to a head and gave the transcendentalists a lot to ponder.