Word: paleontologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jesuit Teilhard wrote The Phenomenon of Man as a scientist; he was a top-ranking paleontologist and one of the discoverers of Peking Man. But as a Roman Catholic priest, he submitted to the prohibition of his church against publishing his writings or teaching his ideas. Until his death at 73, in 1955, The Phenomenon of Man had to be circulated privately in mimeographed form. A friend to whom he left the manuscript arranged for its publication...
When the Swiss scientist was awakened, it was 2 a.m. in the dreary Tuscan hamlet of Baccinello (pop. 400). But Paleontologist Johannes Hurzeler leaped from bed in a blink. In a coal seam 600 ft. under the village, a miner's torch had lighted an ancient white bone. Down in the depths Hurzeler dug farther with trembling care. Last week he ended a nine-year treasure hunt, exhumed the first complete fossil skeleton of an Oreopithecus ("mountain ape"). The age of the coal: 10 million years...
Another long-established notion got its comeuppance at the same congress. Dr. A. J. E. Cave of London's St. Bartholomew's Hospital told the zoologists that the stooping, bent-kneed, apelike stance of Neanderthal man was a libelous misconstruction. About 1911, said Dr. Cave, French Paleontologist Pierre Marcelin Boule fitted together a Neanderthal skeleton found in France. He did not allow for the fact that the bones belonged to an old Neanderthaler who suffered from arthritis. Recently Dr. Cave himself examined those same bones. With age and arthritis properly allowed for, the Neanderthaler looked better. His face...
Jesuits are encouraged to develop their special talents or interests, ranging from archaeology to automation, from deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls to spotting the latest comet in the telescopes of the Vatican Observatory at Castel Gandolfo. Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who died in 1955, was a paleontologist of world renown who unearthed conclusive evidence that the so-called Peking man discovered in China in 1929 was human. Father Francis J. Heyden of Georgetown University is a recognized expert on eclipses. Many
Both were at a meeting of anthropology scholars in New York a week ago Saturday when Johannes Hurzeler, a Swiss paleontologist, lectured on his thesis that Oreopithecus, a creature whose fossilized jaw-bone was found in 1872, was more human-like than ape-like...