The Lying Stones of Marrakech

by Stephen Jay Gould

  Spencer, Herbert, (i)

  spiritualism, (i)

  SSF (small shelly fossils), (i)

  stalactites, accidental resemblances of, (i)

  statistics, (i), (ii)

  Statue of Liberty, (i)

  steady-state earth, (i), (ii)

  Stein, Leon, (i)

  Steinbeck, John, (i)

  Stelluti, Francesco

  on bee anatomy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  on empirical method, (i), (ii)

  and fossil wood, (i)

  and Galileo, (i), (ii), (iii)

  and Lynxes, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  sterilization, involuntary, (i), (ii)

  Stromboli, eruption of, (i)

  subsidence theory of coral reefs, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Sue the Tyrannosaurus, (i)

  Suleiman the Magnificent, (i)

  Sulloway, Frank, (i), (ii)

  Sumner, William Graham, (i), (ii)

  Sunflowers (Van Gogh), (i)

  superposition, principle of, (i), (ii)

  survival of the fittest

  birth order and, (i)

  coining of term, (i)

  social application of, (i)

  Swift, Jonathan, (i)

  sympatric speciation, (i)

  Systema naturae (Linnaeus), (i)

  T

  Tacitus, (i)

  Tambora, eruption of, (i)

  Tamerlane, (i)

  taxonomy

  of barnacles, (i)

  basic questions of, (i), (ii)

  branching system in, (i), (ii), (iii)

  by dichotomy, (i)

  of dinosaurs, (i), (ii), (iii)

  diversity and, (i)

  by external appearance. (i), (ii)

  of fossils, (i), (ii)

  of fossil wood, (i), (ii)

  language and, (i)

  multiple linkages in, (i)

  naming in, (i)

  as theories of knowledge, (i)

  of worms, (i), (ii)

  by zoological affinity, (i), (ii), (iii)

  technology

  amateur, (i)

  and cultural change, (i)

  and the future, (i)

  misuses in war, (i), (ii)

  Western domination of, (i)

  telescope, Galileo and, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  temperament

  celebrity and, (i), (ii)

  and four humors, (i)

  heredity and, (i)

  “Tenting on the Old Camp Ground” (Kittredge), (i)

  Ternes, Alan, (i)

  terrible, meanings of term, (i)

  theory

  as fact-driven, (i)

  and observation, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Thomas Aquinas, Saint, (i)

  Thoreau, Henry David, (i)

  Thorpe, Jim, (i)

  Thoth, (i)

  Thurstone, Louis L., (i)

  time

  arrow of, (i), (ii), (iii)

  cycle of, (i)

  deep, (i), (ii), (iii)

  earth’s cooling through, (i)

  effects of, on reputations, (i), (ii)

  geological scales of, (i), (ii), (iii)

  history and, (i), (ii)

  vastness of, (i)

  in vertical layering of strata, (i), (ii), (iii)

  time charts, history of life in, (i)

  Tommotian phase, (i)

  Torrens, Hugh, (i)n, (ii)

  trade union movement, (i)

  transmutation, (i), (ii)

  Travisano, Michael, (i)

  tree of life, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Triangle Shirtwaist fire (1911), (i), (ii), (iii)

  Trigonia (clam genus), (i)

  triorchites, (i)

  triploblastic animals, (i), (ii)

  trochites, (i)

  twins, identical, (i), (ii)

  Tyler, Stanley, (i)

  U

  uniformitarianism, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  unit characters, (i), (ii)

  urban legends, (i)

  Urban VIII, Pope, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  V

  Van Gogh, Vincent, (i)

  Vermeij, Geerat J., (i)

  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (anon.), (i)

  Vesuvius

  author’s visit to, (i)

  eruption of, (i), (ii), (iii)

  icon of, (i), (ii)

  Lyell’s metaphor for, (i), (ii)

  volcanic eruptions, (i), (ii), (iii)

  appropriate scale and, (i)

  catastrophism and, (i), (ii)

  coral atolls and, (i), (ii)

  on the moon, (i)

  Voltaire, (i), (ii)

  vulva stones, (i), (ii), (iii)

  W

  Walden (Thoreau), (i)

  Wallace, Alfred Russel, (i)

  career of, (i)

  natural selection theory of, (i)

  Wonderful Century by, (i)

  Walossek, Dieter, (i)

  wanderlust, inheritance of, (i), (ii)

  Warheit, K. I., (i)

  wars, (i)

  chemical and biological weapons, (i)

  culture, (i)

  future, (i)

  Geneva Protocol (1925), (i), (ii), (iii)

  prevention of, (i)

  science and, (i)

  technology and, (i), (ii)

  World War I, (i), (ii), (iii)

  World War II, (i), (ii)

  wastebucket, use of term, (i)

  Wats, Gilbert, (i)

  Weiner, Jonathan, (i)

  Wilberforce, Bishop “Soapy Sam,” (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  William of Ockham, (i)

  Williams, Ted, (i)

  Wilmut, Ian, (i), (ii)

  Wolfe, Alan, (i)

  women, opportunity lacked by, (i)

  Wonderful Century, The (Wallace), (i)

  Woodruff, David, (i)

  Woolf, Daniel J., (i), (ii)

  workers, rights of, (i)

  workplace, society and, (i)

  World Before the Deluge, The (Figuier), (i)

  world wars, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Worm, Olaus, (i), (ii), (iii)

  worms

  defined, (i)

  taxonomy of, (i), (ii)

  Wray, G. A., (i), (ii)

  Wren, Christopher, (i), (ii)

  Wright, Sewall, (i)

  X

  Xiao, Shuhai, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Y

  Yankees, New York, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Z

  Zänger, Christian, (i)

  Zhang, Xi-guang, (i)

  Zhang, Yun, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Zhao, Yue, (i)

  Zheng He (Cheng Ho), (i)