Edited by Michael Allaby
5000 entries
This dictionary is a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on all aspects of the study of animals for students and amateur naturalists. There is wide coverage of all relevant topics including animal behavior, genetics, evolutionary studies, ecology, physiology, genetics, cytology, Earth history, and zoogeography. Full taxonomic coverage is provided of arthropods, other invertebrates, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals. It also incorporates the discovery of 'extremophiles' - organisms living in environments formerly considered impossibly hostile - and the taxonomic reclassification that this has entailed.
Michael Allaby is a well-known writer on science and the environment. He is the general editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Natural History and the editor of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ecology and (with Ailsa Allaby) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Earth Sciences.
