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Was Charles Darwin a racist?
In a controversial new book, AN 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? Kirsty Wark discusses the controversial claims with AN Wilson and with Simon Underdown, research fellow in biological anthropology at Oxford Brookes University.
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