Was Charles Darwin a racist? - BBC Newsnight

In a controversial new book, writer A.N. Wilson suggests naturalist Charles Darwin was a racist and a proponent of slavery, and misguided in his famous "theory of evolution." But is this accurate? Newsnight spoke with A.N. Wilson and Dr. Simon Underdown, Principal Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University.

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