The Descent of Love : : Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926 / / Bert Bender.
Upon its publication in 1871, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex sent shock waves through the scientific community and the public at large. In an original and persuasive study, Bert Bender demonstrates that it is this treatise on sexual selection, rather than a...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©1996 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (456 p.) |
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