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=== Paleontology ===
From 1912 to 1914, Teilhard began his [[paleontology]] education by working in the laboratory of the [[National Museum of Natural History, France|French National Museum of Natural History]], studying the [[mammal]]s of the middle [[Tertiary]] period. Later he studied elsewhere in Europe. This included spending 5 days over the course of a 3-month period in the middle of 1913 as a volunteer assistant helping to dig with [[Arthur Smith Woodward]] and [[Charles Dawson]] at the [[Piltdown]] site. Teilhard’s brief time assisting with digging there occurred many months after the discovery of the first fragments of the fraudulent "[[Piltdown Man]]".{{cn|date=September 2024}} [[Stephen Jay Gould]] judged that [[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin]] conspired with Dawson in the Piltdown forgery.<ref>{{Google books|o6g2tvN0nJoC|Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History|keywords=|text=|plainurl=}}</ref> Most Teilhard experts (including all three Teilhard biographers) and many scientists (including the scientists who uncovered the hoax and investigated it) have
Anthropologist [[Birx, H. James|H. James Birx]] wrote that Teilhard „had questioned the validity of this fossil evidence from the very beginning, one positive result was that the young geologist and seminarian now became particularly interested in paleoanthropology as the science of fossil hominids.“<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Birx |first=H. James |date=1999 |title=The Phenomenon of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |url=https://huumanists.org/publications/journal/phenomenon-pierre-teilhard-de-chardin |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=UU Humanist Association |language=en}}</ref> [[Marcellin Boule]], an [[palaeontologist]] and [[anthropologist]], who as early as 1915 had recognized the non-[[hominid]] origins of the Piltdown finds, gradually guided Teilhard towards human paleontology. Boule was the editor of the journal ''L’Anthropologie'' and the founder of two other scientific journals. He was also a professor at the Parisian [[National Museum of Natural History, France|Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle]] for 34 years, and for many years director of the museum's Institute of Human Paleontology.
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