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Adrian Desmond and James Moore's gripping narrative reveals the great personal cost to Darwin of pursuing inflammatory truths--telling the whole story of how he came to his epoch-making conclusions

Looking for the first time at the cut-price anatomy schools rather than genteel Oxbridge, Desmond winkles out pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas in reform-minded and politically charged early nineteenth-century London. In the process, he reveals the underside of London intellectual and social life in the generation before Darwin as it has never been seen before.
""The Politics of Evolution" is intellectual dynamite, and certainly one of the most important books in the history of science published during the past decade." Jim Secord, "Times Literary Supplement"
"One of those rare books...

By examining Darwin's manuscripts and correspondence (published and unpublished) and covert notebooks, the author put forward the argument that Darwin's hatred of slavery shaped his ideas and laid the foundations for his revolutionary ideas.