Talk:Molecular drive

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

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

nothing links to the article Adoptation
only Tram (disambiguation) links to the article TRAM (genetic)
Molecular drive doesn't reference either (very worrisome)

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Innovation[edit]

The molecular drive theory gives a mechanism for preserve mutations that gives a new characteristic or innovation that other wiles will be eliminate by natural selection. Them the natural selection effect is the survive of the individuals who compensate better this innovation. With out innovation, evolution can not be explain.

There are many non-Mendelian hereditary mechanisms that can explain how a non beneficial mutation can dominate in a population. If this mutation have a neutral effect there is not innovation and in consequence not evolution; if the effect is very negative the natural selection will eliminate the individual, population or spice affected; finally, there is the case when natural selection will aloud the survive of this innovate population that finally can be drive tho a new branch of life. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Liz de Quebec (talk • contribs) 02:25, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]