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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin uncovered a prehuman skull. The find quickly became known around the world as Peking Man and was acclaimed as the missing link between erect hunting apes and our Cro-Magnon ancestors. It also became a provocative piece of evidence in the roiling debate over creationism versus evolution.For...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A romance in China between a white American woman and a Chinese scientist. The heroine is Alice who works in China as a translator. She joins an expedition of which he is part and together they search for the remains of the Peking Man.
