Pure Society

Amid the eulogies and celebrations commemorating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin''s birth, the darker side of evolutionary theory should not be forgotten. In The Pure Society, Andr� Pichot, one of France''s foremost specialists in the history of science, excavates the underside of the Darwinian legacy, where the notions of ''race'' and heredity became powerful tools of malign political agendas a...