The Phenomenon of man /
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 1881-1955
The Phenomenon of man / With an introduction by Julian Huxley. [Translated from French by Bernard Wall]. - New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1959] - 318 p. : illus. ; 21 cm. - Translation of Le phenomene humain .
Contents: Book one. Before life came. The stuff of the universe: Elemental matter ; Total matter ; The evolution of matter -- The within of things: Existence ; The qualitative laws of growth ; Spiritual energy --The earth in its early stages: The without ; The within --Book Two. Life. The advent of life: The transit to life ; The initial manifestations of life ; The season of life --The expansion of life: The elemental movements of life ; A corollary: the ways of life ; The ramifications of the living mass ; The tree of life --Demeter: Ariadne's thread ; The rise of consciousness ; The approach of time -- Book three. Thought. The birth of thought: The threshold of reflection ; The original forms --The deployment of the Noosphere: The ramifying phase of the pre-hominids ; The group of the Neanderthaloids ; The Homo Sapiens complex ; The Neolithic metamorphosis ; The prolongations of the Neolithic age and the rise of the West --The modern earth: The discovery of evolution ; The problem of action --
Cosmology
Evolution
Philosophical Anthopology
BD 512 / .T45
The Phenomenon of man / With an introduction by Julian Huxley. [Translated from French by Bernard Wall]. - New York : Harper and Brothers, [c1959] - 318 p. : illus. ; 21 cm. - Translation of Le phenomene humain .
Contents: Book one. Before life came. The stuff of the universe: Elemental matter ; Total matter ; The evolution of matter -- The within of things: Existence ; The qualitative laws of growth ; Spiritual energy --The earth in its early stages: The without ; The within --Book Two. Life. The advent of life: The transit to life ; The initial manifestations of life ; The season of life --The expansion of life: The elemental movements of life ; A corollary: the ways of life ; The ramifications of the living mass ; The tree of life --Demeter: Ariadne's thread ; The rise of consciousness ; The approach of time -- Book three. Thought. The birth of thought: The threshold of reflection ; The original forms --The deployment of the Noosphere: The ramifying phase of the pre-hominids ; The group of the Neanderthaloids ; The Homo Sapiens complex ; The Neolithic metamorphosis ; The prolongations of the Neolithic age and the rise of the West --The modern earth: The discovery of evolution ; The problem of action --
Cosmology
Evolution
Philosophical Anthopology
BD 512 / .T45