Darwin from Descent of Man to Emotions Darwin from Descent of Man to Emotions Between 1868 and 1872, the life and work of Charles Darwin from "Descent of Man" to "Emotions" continued with aspects of his intended "Big Book" on evolution through natural selection. He had by then hurriedly published an "abstract" of this work as "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, and following the immediate reaction to Darwin's theory his earlier work included demonstrating the utility of the flowers of Orchids in directing insect pollination to achieve cross fertilisation, and a summing up of thirteen years of experiments in "The Variation of Animals and Plants
A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom was published in two volumes by Andrew Dickson White, a founder of Cornell University, in 1896. In the introduction White states the original goal of his 1874 lecture on "The Battlefields of Science" and elaborated in a book "The Warfare of Science" the same year: In these volumes he chronicles the gradual emancipation of science from theology in various fields. The literal interpretation of Genesis, including denial of all death and of animals not of use to man