TEILHARD de CHARDIN, R.P.P. "Une Importante Decouverte en Paleontologie Humaine: le Sinanthropus pekinensis".
In Revue des Qustions Scientifiques, 20 July 1930, pp 5-17, offered in the issue of pp 1-112.
Original wrappers. Rubber stamp on front cover. upper right; bits of tiny chipping at spine ends, though the printing on the spine is visible and clear. Very good copy, much of which is unopened. The first report by Teilhard de Chardin on the 1929 discovery of the Peking Man. $150
"In 1929, [Teilard de Chardin] was one of the leading scientists (along with Davidson Black and C.C. Young and Pei Wenchung) of the expedition at Chou-kou-tien. In October, winter was approaching earlier than usual and the digging team was preparing to suspend operations at the end of the month. However, various teeth and fragments of bone had been discovered and the team was granted permission to stay a bit longer. On December 2, the team discovered the smooth dome of a skull. Pei took the skull to Peking where Black and Teilhard de Chardin examined it. Black verified the hominoid nature of the skull and Teilhard de Chardin established the geological era in which the cave was inhabited. During the next ten years of excavation five almost complete skulls, three of them adult, and dozens of other complete jaws and isolated teeth fragments were discovered at the site. These fossils were later identified as Homo Erectus and remain one of the largest findings of Homo Erectus."--Teilhard.com
"Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man. He conceived the vitalist idea of the Omega Point (a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving) and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of noosphere."--Wiki
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