About the Book

Concepts of Zoology—Hawaiʻi Edition has been adapted by Alyssa MacDonald and Anuschka Faucci from the OpenStax College textbook, Concepts of Biology. For information about what was changed in this adaptation, refer to the copyright statement at the bottom of the home page. This adaptation is funded by a University of Hawai’i Community College (UHCC) OER grant as part of the the UH Open Educational Resource (OER) efforts.

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