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

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  • Running Time: 08:02 hrs
    Narrator: Barrett Whitener
    Publisher:
    Tantor Media, 2011
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Author: Aczel, Amir D.
    Contributor: OneClick Digital (Firm); Whitener, Barrett
    Edition: Unabridged library ed.
    Date:
    Created
    2011
    ,
    Copyrighted
    2007
    Summary:

    Documents the efforts of a 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.

    Genre:
    History and geography, Math and science
    Subject(s): Catholic Church | China | Evolution | Fossil hominids | Peking man | Religious aspects | Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
    Original Publisher: [Old Saybrook, CT], [Prince Frederick, Md.], Tantor Media, [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781400124916