The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History Book

	Preface	1
I	Episodes in the Birth of Paleontology: The Nature of Fossils and the History of the Earth
1.	The Lying Stones of Marrakech	9
2.	The Sharp-Eyed Lynx, Outfoxed by Nature	27
3.	How the Vulva Stone Became a Brachiopod	53
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	75
5.	The Proof of Lavosier's Plates	91
6.	A Tree Grows in Paris: Lamarck's Division of Worms and Revision of Nature	115
III	Darwin's Century--and Ours: Lessons from Britain's Four Greatest Victorian Naturalists
7.	Lyell's Pillars of Wisdom	147
8.	A Sly Dullard Named Darwin: Recognizing the Multiple Facets of Genius	169
9.	An Awful Terrible Dinosaurian Irony	183
10.	Second-Guessing the Future	201
IV	Six Little Pieces on the Meaning and Location of Excellence
	Substrate and Accomplishment
11.	Drink Deep, or Taste Not the Pierian Spring	221
12.	Requiem Eternal	227
13.	More Power to Him	231
	De Mortuis When Truly Bonum
14.	Bright Star Among Billions	237
15.	The Glory of His Time and Ours	241
16.	This Was a Man	245
V	Science in Society
17.	A Tale of Two Work Sites	251
18.	The Internal Brand of the Scarlet W	269
19.	Dolly's Fashion and Louis's Passion	287
20.	Above All, Do No Harm	299
VI	Evolution at all Scales
21.	Of Embryos and Ancestors	317
22.	The Paradox of the Visibly Irrelevant	333
23.	Room of One's Own	347
	Illustration Credits	357
	Index	358