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Jim Moore has written and researched widely on Darwin and his age, with his works including The Post-Darwinian Controversies and The Darwin Legend.

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The creation of evolutionphotos.com

By Professor Jim Moore (The Open University), The Naked Scientists (Guest)

18 November 2009

What drove Darwin? Biographer Jim Moore shared his insights with the Breaking Science team  Read more : The creation of evolution

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Darwin Now pod 2: Darwin in context Featuring: audio, Jupiter Images

By Professor Jim Moore (The Open University), Rissa De La Paz (The Open University)

13 October 2009

How do you propose a radical theory without sacrificing your reputation? Professor Jim Moore explores the social and scientific context in which Darwin developed his...  Read more : Darwin Now pod 2: Darwin in context

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OU Lecture 2009: Post lecture discussion Featuring: video, OU image library

By Professor Jim Moore (The Open University), Professor Jonathan Silvertown (The Open University), Dr Peter Skelton (The Open University), Professor Richard Dawkins (Guest), Professor Steve Jones (Guest)

30 April 2009

Follow the discussion that took place after The OU Lecture 2009: Darwin's Five Bridges by Professor Richard Dawkins  Read more : OU Lecture 2009: Post lecture discussion

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Breaking Science: Darwin, evolution & natural selection... Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image Alex J White under CC-BY-NC licence

By The Naked Scientists (Guest), Professor Jim Moore (The Open University)

22 March 2009

How Darwin's theories became accepted, palaeontology provides evidence of natural selection, and dinosaurs – an accident in selection.  Read more : Breaking Science: Darwin, evolution & natural selection...

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Darwin's Sacred Cause  Featuring: video, Creative Commons Image Claire_and_ben under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By Professor Jim Moore (The Open University)

27 January 2009

Jim Moore questions the established view of Darwin as an objective scientist, showing how passionate opposition to slavery motivated his research and gave him courage...  Read more : Darwin's Sacred Cause

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Why I studied Darwin Featuring: video, Production team

By Professor Jim Moore (The Open University)

27 January 2009

Coming from a Midwestern fundamentalist Christian background, Jim Moore first encountered Darwin as a hate-figure. But fascination with the man and his work eventually led...  Read more : Why I studied Darwin

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After Darwin Featuring: video, photos.com

By Professor Jim Moore (The Open University)

27 January 2009

Did the abolition of slavery lead on to a movement to abolish slavery of the mind? Jim Moore reflects on how free thinkers took a...  Read more : After Darwin

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Moore, James (2010). Darwin’s progress and the problem of slavery. Progress in Human Geography, 34 pp. 555–582.

Moore, James (2010). Darwin’s pitch to the Christian world: his transatlantic strategy. In: Darwin in Communication: Reading Materials, International Conference on Darwin in China, 26-28 Aug 2010, Beijing, People's Republic of China.

Paul, Diane B. and Moore, James (2010). The Darwinian context: evolution and inheritance. In: Bashford, Alison and Levine, Phillipa eds. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, pp. 27–42.

Moore, James (2010). Darwin communicates with the Christian world: his transatlantic strategy. Filosofia e História da Biologia, 5, pp. 309–326.

Moore, James (2010). Creationism. In: Patte, Daniel ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Moore, James (2010). Darwin, Charles Robert. In: Patte, Daniel ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Moore, James (2010). Evolution and Christianity. In: Patte, Daniel ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Desmond, Adrian and Moore, James (2009). Darwins Nobele Streven [Darwin’s Sacred Cause - Dutch ed.]. Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam.

Moore, James (2009). Darwin's Cambridge [essay]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Desmond, Adrian and Moore, James A. (2009). Darwin's sacred cause: Race, slavery and the quest for human origins. London: Allen Lane.

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Jim Moore has written and researched widely on Darwin and his age, with his works including The Post-Darwinian Controversies and The Darwin Legend. He has degrees in science, divinity and history, and a PhD from Manchester University for his work on Victorian evolution and religion. Having taught at Cambridge, Harvard, Notre Dame and McMaster Universities, he is professor of the history of science at The Open University.

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