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by Edgar Anderson
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ISBN: 0486441938 Dover Publications Price: $11.95 |
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A distinguished botanist examines the long history of human and plant interactions in this innovative ecological survey. His reader-friendly narrative recounts the tangled and continuing history of weeds and cultivated plants around the world, from garden-variety flowers and vegetables to sources for poisons and drugs. 16 black-and-white illustrations.
Table of Contents for Plants, Man and Life
| Man and His Transported Landscapes | |||||||
| The History of Weeds--A Detective Story | |||||||
| The Greater Paradox | |||||||
| The Clue from the Root Tips | |||||||
| The Clue from Diversity, or Science and the Bureaucrats | |||||||
| How to Measure an Avocado | |||||||
| Budgets vs. Scholarship | |||||||
| Uneconomic Botany | |||||||
| Dump Heaps and the Origin of Agriculture | |||||||
| A Roster of Our Most Important Crop Plants and Their Probable Origins | |||||||
| Sunflowers--The One Native American Crop | |||||||
| Adventures in Chaos | |||||||
| Epilogue | |||||||
| Suggested Readings | |||||||
| Glossary | |||||||
| Index |