Richard Weikart is Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus and a senior fellow of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute. An expert on the intellectual history of Social Darwinism in Germany, his books include Socialist Darwinism: Evolution in German Socialist Thought from Marx to Bernstein; From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany; Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress; and Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich. British historian Sir Richard Evans of Cambridge University called Weikart’s book From Darwin to Hitler an “outstanding book [that] shows in sober and convincing detail how Darwinist thinkers in Germany had developed an amoral attitude to human society by the time of the First World War.” Weikart is also author of The Death of Humanity, which explores Western culture’s declining respect for the sanctity of human life.