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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
...Died. The Rev. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., 74, world-renowned, French-born paleontologist, co-discoverer (in 1924) of the Peking man, the first actual remains of paleolithic man found in Asia; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Father Teilhard regarded the Peking man as an important link between the anthropoids and modern man, saw no contradiction between Roman Catholic doctrine and scientific evidence of man's animal origin. "The significant fact about man," he said, "is the coming of thought with and through...
While de Terra, leader of the expedition, concerns himself primarily with the geological sequences and stratigraphy, and Dr. Teilhard du Chardin with the palcontology, Movius' duties will be the excavation of the Pieistocone terraces and other deposits which may yield implements or other remains...
...discoverer of Pekin Man, Pere Teilhard de Chardin, will join the expedition in Burma on December 1. With him two field trips will be made into the north above Myitkyina, which lies at the foot of the Chinese Alps, near the desolate wastes of Tibet...
...Hundreds of thousands of years ago" was the time of the first man according to Father Teilhard do Chardin, consulting Paleontologist to the Chinese Geological Survey, speaking yesterday in the Biological Lecture Room on "the Peking...