Talk:Molecular drive

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[edit] Merging stubs Adoptation and TRAM (genetic) into here

Having come across Adoptation while searching for misspellings, I was put off by the term-as-pun cuteness. So I'm not exactly neutral.

However, having looked around it seems that someone plucked interesting terms out of Gabriel Dover's papers and made near dictionary definition items from them. While it is possible that someone might search using these terms it would seem that they would best be demonstrated within a larger topic, either here at Molecular drive or Gabriel Dover.

I note that

and the neither article has been added to for 10-11 months.

These articles are dreadfully isolated and need to be merged into one or the other context. Shenme (talk) 03:42, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I'd agree with merging both into molecular drive. The AfD last year co-nominated adoptation and TRAM (genetic) with Gabriel Dover, and most seemed in favour then of merging the terms into molecular drive, but it looks as if this didn't happen, perhaps because the article didn't exist at the time (a screwed-up version had earlier been deleted). The set of articles are sadly in need of expert attention -- my knowledge of Dover's work stops in the 1980s, unfortunately. I have his recent popular science book but I have a lot of trouble with that as the sole source getting a feel for how generally accepted terms like TRAM & adoptation are; I suspect not very. Espresso Addict (talk) 14:04, 23 April 2008 (UTC)