Ethology also the discontinuance of undesirable behaviours. The term "ethology" derives from the Greek language: ἦθος, "ethos" meaning "character" and , "-logia" meaning "the study of". The term was first popularized by American myrmecologist (a person who studies ants) William Morton Wheeler in 1902. Because ethology is considered a topic of biology, ethologists have been concerned particularly with the evolution of behaviour and its understanding in terms of natural selection. In one sense, the first modern ethologist was Charles Darwin, whose 1872 book "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" influenced many ethologists. He pursued his interest in behaviour
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