.... Chapter 14 explores the response to the Descent through Darwin’s late Victorian readership, not simply his scientific readers, but the wider reading public who variously adopted, adapted, or rejected his theory of sexual selection. The criticisms of its major scientific opponents, St. George Mivart...

... Wright’s Darwinism Wright Reade William Winwood James William and Spencer’s theories Charles Darwin Louis Agassiz William James Charles Sanders Peirce Chauncey Wright John Fiske Francis Ellingwood Abbot St. George Mivart Francis Bowen Metaphysical Club Late in life, Charles Sanders Peirce...