Ways of the right-wing media: ‘At the end of a week of successfully rattling cages, I was ready for yet another smear or diversionary tactic of some kind, but in my wildest dreams I couldn’t have imagined the surreal form this one was to take…I can’t help wondering at the quality of journalism which sees a scoop in attacking a man for what his five-greats grandfather did.’
Richard Dawkins blog: http://richarddawkins.net/articles/645002-the-sins-of-the-fathers-also-in-polish
The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/19/richard-dawkins-disbelief-slave-trade-ancestor
The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9091007/Slaves-at-the-root-of-the-fortune-that-created-Richard-Dawkins-family-estate.html
References: The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (6th edition, 1872), text: http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/charles_darwin/origin_of_species/
The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text, ed. Morse Pickham: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Origin-Species-Variorum-Text-Reprint/dp/0812219546