Pierre teilhard de chardin 1881 1956 succeeded in melding his life as a jesuit priest and as a scientist at a time when the catholic church denied that such a thing was either possible or desirable. The book is about teilhard de chardin a french jesuit priest who in 1929 was one of the team that discovered the skull of peking man the discovery threw teilhard both a devoted scientist and a man of god into a deeply personal conflict between the new science and his anc the illustration on the cover of a skull sitting on books caught my eye. The jesuit and the skull teilhard de chardin evolution and the search for peking man library edition aczel amir d whitener barrett amazonnl. The jesuit and the skull teilhard de chardin evolution and the search for peking man aczel amir d amazonnl selecteer uw cookievoorkeuren we gebruiken cookies en vergelijkbare tools om uw winkelervaring te verbeteren onze services aan te bieden te begrijpen hoe klanten onze services gebruiken zodat we verbeteringen kunnen aanbrengen en om advertenties weer te geven. In the jesuit and the skull bestselling author amir d aczel vividly recounts the discovery of peking man and its repercussions and how teilhard de chardins scientific work helped to open the eyes of the world to new theories of humanitys origins that alarmed the traditionalists within the church