Editing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (section)

=== George Gaylord Simpson ===
[[George Gaylord Simpson]] felt that if Teilhard were right, the lifework "of Huxley, Dobzhansky, and hundreds of others was not only wrong, but meaningless", and was mystified by their public support for him.<ref name="BrowningAlioto1973">{{Cite book |last1=Browning |first1=Geraldine O. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RHCqN_lM5bYC&pg=PA91 |title=Teilhard de Chardin: in Quest of the Perfection of Man: An International Symposium |last2=Joseph L. Alioto |last3=Seymour M. Farber |last4=University of California, San Francisco Medical Center |date=January 1973 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |isbn=978-0-8386-1258-3 |pages=91ff}}</ref> He considered Teilhard a friend and his work in paleontology extensive and important, but expressed strongly adverse views of his contributions as scientific theorist and philosopher.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Laporte |first=Léo F. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jd0yGJ3nF9EC&pg=PA191 |title=George Gaylord Simpson: Paleontologist and Evolutionist |date=13 August 2013 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-50545-1 |pages=191ff}}</ref>