Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a Jesuit paleontologist and philosopher involved in coining the concept of the noosphere, and present at the discovery of [Peking Man]?.

We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet 'as a whole.'

from [The Heart of Matter]? (1950)