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Unknown, 1999
Current format, Unknown, 1999, 2nd ed, No Longer Available.
Unknown, 1999
Current format, Unknown, 1999, 2nd ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formats
This dictionary is a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on all aspects of the study of animals. Now fully revised for this new edition, with over 5,000 entries, it is ideal for students and will be invaluable to amateur naturalists and all those with an interest in the subject.Wide coverage including animal behaviour, ecology, physiology, genetics, cytology, evolution, Earth history, zoogeographyFull taxonomic coverage of arthropods, other invertebrates, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammalsCompletely revised to incorporate the recent discovery of `extremophiles' -- organisms living in environments formerly considered impossibly hostile -- and the toxonomic reclassification that this has entailedNew entries on genetics, evolutionary studies, and mammalian physiology
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