The Phenomenon of Man

“A profound book of great distinction and originality. . . . A brilliant synthesis of the evidence with respect to man’s evolutionary direction. . . . I cannot imagine anyone reading this book who will not be profoundly influenced by it, and who will not wish to read it several times over, for it is a great work by a great man—one of the most spiritually erudite of our time.” —New York Times

Visionary theologian and evolutionary theorist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s analysis of human evoluti...