The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 440 pages. First edition (first printing). Light soiling to fore-edge else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Upon its publication in 1871, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex sent shock waves through the scientific.....





