Description: An engaging collection of interdisciplinary essays on the distinctive qualities of America's textual engagement with Darwinian evolutionary theory, especially in regard to On the Origin of Species, which highlights the influence of prevalent cultural anxieties on interpretation.
Brief description: TINA GIANQUITTO is an associate professor of literature in the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines.
Review Quotes: One reads these essays with a constantly renewed sense of the capaciousness of Darwin's intellect, interested equally in the movements of earthworms and the reasons why humans bare their teeth.--Christoph Irmscher "Reports of the National Center for Science Education"