The Penguin Dictionary of Biology

Sep 22, 2024 7:32 AM

Author:Michael Hickman,Michael Thain,Raymond Turvey

Worried about your maternal effect or biological clock? Need to know a rhizoid from a rhizome? Think you’re going to fail your zoology or botany exam? The Penguin Dictionary of Biology is your saviour, defining some 6000 terms relating to this rich, complex and constantly expanding subject – from amino acids, bacteria and the cell cycle to X-ray diffraction, Y chromosome and zygotes. Long established as the definitive single-volume source, this dictionary has sold over 200,000 copies and is extensively updated for its eleventh edition.

Reviews

A passionate defence of the enduring power of human nature ... both life-affirming and deeply satisfying

—— Tim Lott , Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year

Brilliant ... enjoyable, informative, clear, humane

—— New Scientist

If you think the nature-nurture debate has been resolved, you are wrong ... this book is required reading

—— Literary Review

An original and vital contribution to science and also a rattling good read

—— Matt Ridley , Sunday Telegraph

A marvellous book... This second part of the life stands on its own. Soothing, unhurried and absorbing

—— Jane Ridley , Spectator

A fitting tribute to his career, as it combines, in both style and substance, the different themes of his life's work. Blending genuine literary talents with impeccable scientific credentials, Gould crafts an elegant entreaty for scientists and scholars to spend less time complaining about each other and more time combining their considerable resources. We need both the fox and the hedgehog in any intellectual menagerie - the persistent pluralist

—— Alan C. Hutchinson , Globe and Mail

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