i wanted to learn about the noosphere, the sphere of human thought introduced by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 1922 in his Cosmogenesis. As a Jesuit, he fought the Vatican and the Jesuit authorities in writing about Darwin, evolution and the Bible, fitting it all together. Much of his writing on philosophy and religion is still locked away as "classified" by the Vatican and not available to the public. The scenarist priest was exiled to China as punishment but there he led an expedition that found Peking Man and some of the oldest group of fossil specimens of Homo erectus dated from roughly 680,000–780,000 years ago. Author, Amir D. Aczel successfully traces the life of an amazing rebel.