The Lying Stones of Marrakech
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| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
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| Genre(s) | Non-fiction, Science |
| Publisher | Harmony Books |
| Released | April 11, 2000 |
| Pages | 384 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-609-60142-3 |
| Preceded by | Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms |
| Followed by | I Have Landed |
The Lying Stones of Marrakech (2000) is the ninth volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were culled from his monthly column "The View of Life" in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27 years. The book deals, in typically discursive fashion, with themes familiar to Gould's writing: evolution and its teaching, science biography, probabilities and common sense.
[edit] Contents
- Preface
- Episodes in the Birth of Paleontology
The Nature of Fossils and the History of the Earth- The Lying Stones of Marrakech
- The Sharp-Eyed Lynx, Outfoxed by Nature
- How the Vulva Stone Became a Brachiopod
- Present at the Creation
How France's Three Finest Scientists Established Natural History in an Age of Revolution- Inventing Natural History in Style
- The Proof of Lavoisier's Plates [1]
- A Tree Grows in Paris: Lamark's Division of Worms and Revision of Nature [2]
- Darwin's Century—And Ours
Lessons from Britain's Four Greatest Victorian Naturalists- Lyell's Pillars of Wisdom [3]
- A Sly Dullard Named Darwin: Recognizing the Multiple Facets of Genius
- An Awful Terrible dinosaurian Irony
- Second-Guessing the Future
- Six Little Pieces on the Meaning and Location of Excellence
Substrate and Accomplishment
- Drink Deep, or Taste Not the Pierian Spring
- Requiem Eternal
- More Power to Him
De Mortuis When Truly Bonum
- Bright Star Among Billions
- The Glory of His Time and Ours
- This Was a Man
- Science in Society
- Evolution at all Scales
- Episodes in the Birth of Paleontology
[edit] Reviews
- Book review - by Christine Kenneally, The New York Times
- Book review - by Jim Walker
[edit] External Links
- Book excerpt - Random House Press
- Video interview about the book - Charlie Rose
