Charles Darwin, Cautious Advocate of Racial Equality and Human Rights

Areo Magazine
Sep 2, 2018 · 25 min read
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By Robert Darby

Charles Darwin has long been recognized as one of the world’s greatest scientists and the founder of scientific biology: at the same time, and for the same reason, he has been persistently attacked by religious conservatives for expelling the gods from the workings of nature. In recent times he has been further denounced for…

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