Peter Holland (zoologist)

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.

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.

• 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 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), 2014

• Holland, Peter (10 December 2008). Swifter Than the Arrow: Wilfred Bartrop, Football and War. Matador. ISBN 9781848760684. Retrieved 15 June 2016. 
• Holland, Peter (24 November 2011). The Animal Kingdom: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199593217. Retrieved 15 June 2016.