Teilhard de Chardin’s Contributions to Mammal Phylogenesis
Teilhard de Chardin’s Contributions to Mammal Phylogenesis

Summary/Abstract: A proposal of a research project about the contribution of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to Mammal evolution is reported. The project is divided in three different steps. The first regards his contribution to early Mammals carried out just before and just after the first world war. The principal result was the description of the species Teilhardina belgica; now the genus Teilhardina is considered very near to the origin of the Euprimates and Tarsidae common phyletic tree. Then a revision of the Chinese period will be made when he described the main Mammals group using the new method of Geobiology. Finally his last period when as an expert of the Wenner-Gren Foundation travelled in Africa and proposed the scale phyletic tree; he investigated the different moments of the out of Africa migrations and finally described the steps of human evolution with the term bushy, today widely accepted.

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