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The Jesuit and the skull : Teilhard de Chardin, evolution, and the search for Peking Man

by Amir D. Aczel

This account details the 1929 discovery of the Peking Man skull and its impact on Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. It examines his efforts to reconcile evolutionary theory with Catholic doctrine and his subsequent ostracisation by the Church.

Accession 19740 ISBN 9781594489563 Publisher Riverhead Books
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Documents the efforts of an esteemed French Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, to confront the struggle between science and religion upon his 1929 discovery of the Peking Man pre-human skull that represented a missing link between erect hunting apes and the human race's Cro-Magnon ancestors.

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