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508 GOP0
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Author
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Gould, Stephen Jay.
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Title
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The lying stones of Marrakech : penultimate reflections in natural history / Stephen Jay Gould.
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New York : Three Rivers Press, c2000.
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Material Info.
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372 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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I. Episodes in the Birth of Paleontology: The Nature of Fossils and the History of the Earth. 1. The Lying Stones of Marrakech. 2. The Sharp-Eyed Lynx, Outfoxed by Nature. 3. How the Vulva Stone Became a Brachiopod -- II. 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. The Proof of Lavoisier's Plates. 6. A Tree Grows in Paris: Lamarck's Division of Worms and Revision of Nature -- III. Darwin's Century - and Ours: Lessons from Britain's Four Greatest Victorian Naturalists. 7. Lyell's Pillars of Wisdom. 8. A Sly Dullard Named Darwin: Recognizing the Multiple Facets of Genius. 9. An Awful Terrible Dinosaurian Irony. 10. Second-Guessing the Future -- IV. Six Little Pieces on the Meaning and Location of Excellence. 11. Drink Deep, or Taste Not the Pierian Spring. 12. Requiem Eternal. 13. More Power to Him. 14. Bright Star Among Billions. 15. The Glory of His Time and Ours. 16. This Was a Man -- V. Science in Society. 17. A Tale of Two Work Sites. 18. The Internal Brand of the Scarlet W. 19. Dolly's Fashion and Louis's Passion. 20. Above All, Do No Harm -- VI. Evolution at All Scales. 21. Of Embryos and Ancestors. 22. The Paradox of the Visibly Irrelevant. 23. Room of One's Own.
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ISBN
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0609601423
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0609807552
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Subject
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Natural history Popular works.
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Evolution Popular works.
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Year, Month, Day:01405141
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