num_pages: 288
description: 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. 40,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
titlecomplete: The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
genres: History, Religion, Spirituality, Biography Memoir, Biography, Science, Audiobook, Nonfiction, Evolution, Anthropology
ratings_count: 567
publisher: Riverhead Hardcover