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NY, McGraw-Hill, (1981). Annotated ed. VG PB. Preface discounts the Stephen Jay Gould denouncing of Chardin as having known about the Piltdown site in Sussex before the. public did and a co-conspirator with Charles Dawson. de Chardin experienced adventures as few ever have. A paleontologist and explorer he trekked through Asian deserts to the Himalayas, aided in discovery of the Peking man, survived the Japanese occupation of China, and lived to search for clued into a blinding vision of humankind growing toward a universal unity, and for his pains was silenced by the Church he sought to serve.