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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Born May 1, 1881 • France
Died April 10, 1955 (aged 73) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “The Divine Milieu” • “The Phenomenon of Man”
Subjects Of Study evolution • Peking man
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
French philosopher
Édouard Lartet
French geologist and archaeologist
Henri-François-Émile Termier
French geologist
Joachim Barrande
French geologist
Émile Haug
French geologist
Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule
French geologist
Claude Buffier
French philosopher
Robert Broom
South African paleontologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
English philosopher Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher
Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico
Italian philosopher
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
British philosopher
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
Marjorie Grene
American philosopher
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn
American paleontologist
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist

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