Monod Théodore

ref. 68047 — Paris: French Protestant Committee. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Some endpaper discoloration. Pencil erasure residue on fep. COver has some wear and soiling. 114 p. The Recorder was the Secretary of the French Protestant Committee. This was translated from the French--translator unidentified. From Wikipedia: "Théodore André Monod Rouen April 9 1902-Versailles November 22 2000 was a French naturalist explorer and humanist scholar. Early in his career Monod was made professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle and founded the Institut Français d Afrique Noire in Senegal. He became a member of the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer in 1949 member of the Académie de Marine in 1957 and member of the Académie des Sciences in 1963. In 1960 he was one of the founders of the World Academy of Art and Science. He began his career in Africa with the study of monk seals on Mauritania's Cap Blanc peninsula. However he soon turned his attention to the Sahara desert which he would survey for more than sixty years in search of meteorites. Though he failed to find the meteorite he sought he discovered numerous plant species as well as several important Neolithic sites. Perhaps his most important find together with Wladimir Besnard was the Asselar man a 6 000-year-old skeleton of the Adrar des Ifoghas that many scholars believe to be the first remains of a distinctly black person. Monod the son of Wilfred Monod attended the Lycee Pierre Corneille in Rouen. His father was a pastor of the Temple Protestant de l'Oratoire du Louvre which Theodore also attended. He subsequently became the founding president of the Francophone Unitarian Association 1986-1990 the first openly-Unitarian religious organization established in France and later sponsored a spin-off of the AUF known as the Fraternal Assembly of Christian Unitarians. Monod was also politically active taking part in pacifist and antinuclear protests until only some months before his death. He wrote several articles and books that adumbrated the emerging environmentalist movement. He described himself as a Christian anarchist." French Protestant Committee hardcover