Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Zoological Evolution and Invention

Humanity’s growing interconnection isn’t a social accident, says Teilhard, but evolution becoming self-aware. If life is now reflecting on—and reinventing—itself, then watching human creativity may reveal how new biological forms once emerged. He asks whether “invention,” not just chance and selection, has always nudged life toward greater complexity. In a universe drifting toward the improbable, he wonders: when did consciousness begin steering evolution?