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The Jesuit and the skull Teilhard de Chardin, evolution, and the search for Peking Man

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Main Author: Aczel, Amir D.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2007.
Subjects:
Peking man.
Fossil hominids > China.
China > Antiquities.
Evolution > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre.
Evolution > China.
Catholicism > history > China.
Religion and Science > China.
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Physical Description:288 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p.[265]-276) and index.
ISBN:9781594489563
1594489564
Author Notes:Amir D. Aczel was born in Haifa, Israel on November 6, 1950. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley and a doctorate in decision sciences from the business school at the University of Oregon. He taught at several universities during his lifetime including the University of Alaska and Bentley College.

His first book, Complete Business Statistics, was published in 1989 and went through eight editions. His other books include How to Beat the I.R.S. at Its Own Game: Strategies to Avoid - and Fight - an Audit; Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem; The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity; The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World; Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics; and Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers. He died from cancer on November 26, 2015 at the age of 65.

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