Author: Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Date of birth: 1881
Date of death: 1955
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French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man. Teilhard conceived the idea of the Omega Point and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of Noosphere.


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