The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man by Amir D. Aczel

The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man

Amir D. Aczel

288 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin uncovered a pre-human skull. The find quickly became known around the world as Pekin...

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