TY  - BOOK
AU  - Teilhard de Chardin,Pierre
TI  - The Phenomenon of man
AV  - BD 512 .T45
PY  - 1959///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper and Brothers
KW  - Cosmology
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Philosophical Anthopology
N1  - 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 --
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