Patrick MellorPatrick Mellor has studied paleobiology, botany, and philosophy at Oxford and San Francisco State universities, specializing in the botany and ecology of the California deserts, philosophy of mind, and early modern rationalism. Right now he is likelyto be writing about paleobiology and climate change, exploring the evolution of memory, or wandering about the Mojave and Colorado deserts in search of various oracles. Read More Read Less