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Revision as of 00:31, 1 May 2007 by Silence (talk | contribs) (greatly trim and simplify; having such an overwhelming list at the top of the article just isn't helpful, and we don't need to keep around the resolved issues. this should be easier to read and update)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)- General: Improve continuity and citations. Explain difficult terms and concepts for laypeople. Trim unnecessary details, and add concrete observations and clear examples to ground concepts and explain the evidence for various theories.
- Lead section: Make article consistent with consensus on common ancestors and genetic drift. Improve coherency and smoothness of explanation of adaptation, speciation, and common descent.
- Variation section: "Mutation" section needs work. Trim unnecessary details, add clearer explanations for important concepts.
- Mechanisms section: Clarify and explain "genetic drift" better.
- Evidence section: Deprecated as misleading. Evidence for evolution has also been renamed. Trim this section down into "Homology" and "Phylogeny and systematics" subsections of the new "Common descent" oversection. Should be much, much shorter.
- Academic disciplines section: Discuss whether it should be included, and in what form. If included, clean up, trim unnecessary details, and add information on recent research and scientific controversies, e.g., neutral mutation and punctuated equilibrium.
- Controversy section: Clean up. NPOV check the eugenics/social darwinism paragraph. Integrate into a slightly larger "Social effects" section to also discuss other aspects of evolutionary biology's impact on society, e.g., evolution in popular culture. A couple of paragraphs on this makes just as much sense as "controversy" paragraphs.