Chuckwalla land : the riddle of California's desert /
Drawing from his frequent forays to Death Valley, Red Rock Canyon, Kelso Dunes, and other locales, the author illuminates the desert's intriguing flora and fauna as he explores a controversial, unresolved scientific debate about the origin and evolution of its unusual ecosystems. Eminent scient...
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Table of Contents:
- A sphinx in Arcady
- The country of dried skin
- A cactus heresy
- The creator's dumping ground
- An evolutionary backwater
- Anti-Darwinian Lacertilians
- Descriptive confusion
- A murderous brood
- Hopeful monsters
- An Old Earth-feature
- A climatic accident
- An evolutionary frontier
- A neo-Darwinian Galapagos
- Mexican geneses
- Desert relicts
- Madro-tertiary attitudes
- A friendly land
- Furry paleontologists
- Dawn horses and dinosaurs
- Axelrod antagonists
- The midday sun
- Lacertilian ambiguities
- Xerothermic invasions
- Sand swimmers
- Axelrod ascendant
- An evolutionary museum
- The riddle of the palms
- Bushes and camels
- Axelrod askew
- Paradigms postponed
- The falcon and the shrikes.