Peter Holland

Life and career After graduating in Zoology from The Queen's College, University of Oxford, in 1984 and obtaining a doctorate in genetics at the National Institute for Medical Research in 1987, Peter Holland held a series of research posts including a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. He become Professor of Zoology at the University of Reading in 1994 at the age of 30.

Peter Holland was a Trustee of the Marine Biological Association from 1998 to 2018,

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.