Bibliograph

The Jesuit and the skull, Teilhard de Chardin, evolution, and the search for Peking Man, Amir D. Aczel

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The Jesuit and the skull, Teilhard de Chardin, evolution, and the search for Peking Man, Amir D. Aczel

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-276) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Jesuit and the skull

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

152580644

Responsibility statement

Amir D. Aczel

Sub title

Teilhard de Chardin, evolution, and the search for Peking Man

Summary

Documents the efforts of an esteemed French Jesuit priest 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, a finding he was ordered to deny as scientific evidence refuting biblical teachings

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Jesuit & the skull

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