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Polymorphism (biology)

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Well, thank you for your comment. One of the things I tried to do here was to link genetics and evolution with the life of animals & plants in nature. DNA/molecular biology is nowadays tending to swamp biology courses almost to the exclusion of whole living beings!

The other thing I do is biographies of biologists; I've been slaving away on Julian Huxley for some time now; he's almost done, but I heed to get some out-of-copyright photos scanned and loaded up. Graphics are important, it seems, though what they really add is something of a mystery...

After a while, you'll find a few things that seem to fit yourself, and before you know it, you'll be contributing! There's some generous people out there who will help you, but also some critics... Check everything & use the library & the web to collect info. Wiki ('WP') is a wonderful self-teaching device!

Best wishes, Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:28, 16 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

talk pages protocol

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Please add your discusion material to the bottom of talk pages. This is what everyone else does and if you do things different your commnets are effectively hidden. SmithBlue (talk) 23:12, 19 March 2008 (UTC)Reply