The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man.
New York: Riverhead Books [ a division of Penguin ], 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xii + 208pp. Deep red cloth spine over scarlet papered boards, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Appendices, notes, references and index, b&w photographs and illustrations. From the publishers: "Aczel 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". A copy with just a hint of handling, else boards are bright & clean, pages & page edges very lightly toned but clean and unmarked. Overall a near Fine copy in a near Fine dust jacket. ( Just a hint of rubbing to panels and all extremities. Now in protective mylar cover.) A nice copy. Item #72078
ISBN: 9781594489563
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