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The dynamic nature of science and scientific progress has required a completely revised, updated and expanded version of this hugely successful book, which remains the most wide-ranging and comprehensive dictionary for the study of natural history in its broadest sense. There are over 11,000 entries, providing a working dictionary for students, teachers, researchers and others having an interest within the broad arena of biodiversity studies. The coverage cuts across classical disciplines (botany, zoology, bacteriology, mineralogy, palaeontology, etc.), focusing particularly on concepts, strategies and methodologies. New information in the book reflects major scientific developments, hence special attention is given to terminology relating to molecular techniques and to terminology generated by recent initiatives in the study of biological diversity and global climate change.

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• Preface: The Dictionary
• Appendix 1 Geological time scale
• Appendix 2 Terrestrial chronology of the quaternary ice age in the northern hemisphere
• Appendix 3 Marine oxygen isotope chronology of the quternary ice age
• Appendix 4 Wallace's zoogeographical regions
• Appendix 5 Phytogeographical regions
• Appendix 6 Terrestrial biomes
• Appendix 7 Tectonic plates
• Appendix 8 Major oceanic surface currents
• Appendix 9 Marine depth zones
• Appendix 10 Lacustrine depth zones
• Appendix 11 Soil profile and horizon nomenclature
• Appendix 12 Zonation of the atmosphere
• Appendix 13 Plankton size categories
• Appendix 14 Sediment particle size categories
• Appendix 15 Taxonomic hierarchy
• Appendix 16 SI units
• Appendix 17 Temperature conversion chart
• Appendix 18 The beaufort wind scale
• Appendix 19 Chemical elements
• Appendix 20 The electromagnetic spectrum
• Appendix 21 Composition of the atmosphere
• Appendix 22 Global distribution of water
• Appendix 23 The genetic code and amino acids
• Appendix 24 Signs and symbols
• Appendix 25 Acronyms and abbreviations
• Appendix 26 Latin abbreviations
• Appendix 27 Greek and Russian alphabets: Roman numerals
• Appendix 28 Proof correction marks
• Appendix 29 International paper sizes

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CHOICE Review

New techniques of investigation and understandings of mechanisms in molecular biology, developmental genetics, and global climate change, to name a few fields, make it high time for this second edition. Offering broader coverage than its title may indicate, this work would be useful in fields such as soil science, physical anthropology, biogeography, botany, and zoology. It contains brief definitions of more than 11,000 terms, roughly a 10 percent increase over the first edition. Among the new terms are "dot blotting," "ELISA," "hnRNA," and ten terms or phrases beginning "DNA." The definition of DNA itself has doubled in length. Among the 29 nifty appendixes are maps and tables covering such things as Wallace's biogeographical regions, tectonic plates, plankton size categories, the Quaternary Ice Age, genetic code and amino acids, zonation of the atmosphere, and the Beaufort wind scale. Alas, one typo was detected. Although the book was compiled by three researchers at the British Museum of Natural History, British spellings do not appear insurmountable. Fans of the first edition will love the second; those in need of a first-rate biology dictionary would do well to acquire this one. T. R. Faust Fairfield University