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 -- A tree grows in Paris: Lamarck’s division of worms and revision of nature -- Darwin’s century-and ours: lessons from Britain’s four greatest Victorian naturalists : Lyell’s pillars of wisdom -- 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 : A tale of two work sites -- The internal brand of the scarlet w -- Dolly’s fashion and Louis’s passion -- Above all, do no harm -- Evolution at all scales : Of embryos and ancestors -- The paradox of the visibly irreverent -- Room of one’s own.
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