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Peter Holland (zoologist)

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Citizenship
  
British

Fields
  
Zoology

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Born
  
August 17, 1963 (age 53) (
1963-08-17
)

Education
  
Marple Hall School; MA, The Queen's College, Oxford; PhD, National Institute for Medical Research, London, 1987

Notable awards
  
ZSL Scientific Medal, 1996; De Snoo van ’t Hoogerhuijs Medal, 1999; FRS, 2003; Genetics Society Medal, 2004; Blaise Pascal Medal, 2005; A.O. Kovalevsky Medal, 2006; Linnean Medal, 2012; ZSL Frink Medal, 2015

Spouse
  
Amanda Susan Horsfall (married 1996)

Books
  
The Animal Kingdom, An Introduction to Business Law

Institutions
  
University of Oxford, University of Reading

Peter William Harold Holland FRS (born 17 August 1963) is a zoologist whose research focuses on how the evolution of animal diversity can be explained through evolution of the genome. He is the current Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.

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Life and career

After graduating from The Queen's College in 1984 and taking his doctorate at the National Institute for Medical Research in 1987, Peter Holland was a research fellow in Oxford before becoming Professor of Zoology at the University of Reading in 1994. In 2002 he was elected as a Fellow of Merton College and appointed as Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, where he was head of the Department of Zoology from 2011 to 2016.

Publications

  • Essential Developmental Biology, 1993 (as co-editor)
  • The Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms, 1994 (as joint editor)
  • Swifter than the Arrow: Wilfred Bartrop, football and war, 2009
  • The Animal Kingdom: A Very Short Introduction, 2011. Also published in Japanese in 2014 under the title 動物たちの世界六億年の進化をたどる (The world of animals: tracing 600 million years of evolution), and in Arabic in 2016 as المملكة الحيوانية: مقدمة قصيرة جدًّا.
  • References

    Peter Holland (zoologist) Wikipedia