XII. Adventures in Chaos

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. Illustrations XIII
5. I. Man and His Transported Landscapes 1
6. II. The History of Weeds — A Detective Story 16
7. III. The Greater Paradox 31
8. IV. The Clue from the Root Tips 49
9. V. The Clue from Diversity, or Science and the Bureaucrats 75
10. VI. How to Measure an Avocado 89
11. VII. Budgets vs. Scholarship 107
12. VIII. Uneconomic Botany 124
13. IX. Dump Heaps and the Origin of Agriculture 136
14. X. A Roster of Our Most Important Crop Plants and Their Probable Origins 152
15. XI. Sunflowers — The One Native American Crop 186
16. XII. Adventures in Chaos 207
17. Epilogue 233
18. Suggested Readings 235
19. Glossary 241
20. Index 243