The Lying Stones of Marrakech

Infobox Book


name =The Lying Stones of Marrakech
author =Stephen Jay Gould
genre =Non-fiction, Science
publisher =Harmony Books
release_date =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.

Contents

• Preface
  1. Episodes in the Birth of Paleontology
     "The Nature of Fossils and the History of the Earth"
     1. [http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_n3_v107/ai_20485364 The Lying Stones of Marrakech]
     2. [http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_n4_v107/ai_20549274 The Sharp-Eyed Lynx, Outfoxed by Nature]
     3. How the Vulva Stone Became a Brachiopod
  2. Present at the Creation
     "How France's Three Finest Scientists Established Natural History in an Age of Revolution"
     4. Inventing Natural History in Style
     5. [http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_n9_v107/ai_21262672 The Proof of Lavoisier's Plates] [http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_10_107/ai_53378966]
     6. [http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_1_108/ai_53682801 A Tree Grows in Paris: Lamark's Division of Worms and Revision of Nature] [http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_2_108/ai_54032986]
  3. Darwin's Century—And Ours
     "Lessons from Britain's Four Greatest Victorian Naturalists"
     7. [http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_3_108/ai_54343075 Lyell's Pillars of Wisdom] [http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_4_108/ai_54574597]
     8. A Sly Dullard Named Darwin: Recognizing the Multiple Facets of Genius
     9. [http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_n1_v107/ai_20517881 An Awful Terrible dinosaurian Irony]
     10. [http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_n7_v107/ai_21084297 Second-Guessing the Future]
  4. Six Little Pieces on the Meaning and Location of Excellence
     "Substrate and Accomplishment"
     
     11. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_n8_v106/ai_20147992/print Drink Deep, or Taste Not the Pierian Spring]
     12. Requiem Eternal
     13. More Power to Him
     "De Mortuis When Truly Bonum"
     
     14. [http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_carlsagan.html Bright Star Among Billions]
     15. The Glory of His Time and Ours
     16. This Was a Man
  5. Science in Society
     17. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_n9_v106/ai_20135595/print A tale of two work sites]
     18. [http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_n2_v107/ai_20485353 The Internal Brand of the Scarlet W]
     19. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_n5_v106/ai_19752772/print Dolly's Fashion and Louis's Passion]
     20. [http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_n8_v107/ai_21191217 Above All, Do No Harm]
  6. Evolution at all Scales
     21. [http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_n6_v107/ai_21031844 Of Embryos and Ancestors]
     22. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_n11_v106/ai_20384238/print The Paradox of the Visibly Irrelevant]
     23. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_10_106/ai_53479050/print Room of One's Own]

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Index

Reviews

* [http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/24/bib/000924.rv100331.html Book review] - by Christine Kenneally, "The New York Times"
* [http://www.nobeliefs.com/Gould3.htm Book review] - by Jim Walker

External links

* [http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780609807552&view=excerpt Book excerpt] - Random House Press
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4553507752156270894#37m50s Video interview about the book] - "Charlie Rose"