This best-selling dictionary is the most
comprehensive and up-to-date of its kind, containing
over 5,250 entries on all aspects of zoology.
Complemented with numerous illustrations, it includes
terms from the areas of ecology, animal behaviour,
evolution, earth history, zoogeography, genetics, and
physiology and it provides full taxonomic coverage of
arthropods, other invertebrates, fish, reptiles,
amphibians, birds, and mammals. The third edition has
been fully revised and updated and includes many new
entries, for example, alarm pheromone, Fick's laws,
manometer, and synanthrope. It also features new
material on behavioural ecology and conservation
biology, and expanded coverage of cytology and taxonomy.
New to this edition are recommended web links for many
entries, which are accessed and kept up to date via the
Dictionary of Zoology companion website. Web links
provide valuable extra information by directing you to
useful online resources and the homepages of relevant
organizations. Following the A-Z dictionary are detailed
appendices of endangered animals, the universal genetic
code, the geologic time scale, and SI
units.Wide-ranging, authoritative, and with jargon-free
definitions, this dictionary is an indispensable
reference tool for students and teachers of zoology,
biological sciences and biomedical sciences, and a
valuable resource for naturalists and anyone with an
interest in animals. |
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