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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| 505 | 0 | |a 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 -- Epilogue: The sphinx's lair. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index. | ||
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