Las piedras falaces de Marrakech

Few scientists have been able to combine scientific rigor with literary entertaining, as biologist and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has done in such memorable books as The Panda's Thumb or "Brontosaurus" and the Minister's Buttock. These works have defined a genre in which Gould shows the complex and fascinating world of science from the subjective perspective of an admirable human being who wishes to communicate his ambitions and frustrations, his knowledge and ignorance, to his peers, to others. your readers. The fallacious stones of Marrakech is part of that saga of books. It is divided into six parts, focusing on paleontology, the way in which the three best scientists in 18th century France (Buffon, Lavoisier and Lamarck) invented the study of natural history, some of the aspects and protagonists (such as Lyell and Wallace ) of the «Darwin century», what excellence means, the social consequences of science, using cases ranging from Spencer's social Darwinism to the cloned sheep Dolly, passing through eugenics, and the different expression of evolution through of the scales of size and time that can be found in Nature.