Talk:Patricia Adair Gowaty

Notability of Patricia Adair Gowaty
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Speedy deletion proposal
Cool your juices. Patricia Adair Gowaty is a well-known evolutionary biologist who has published many books and peer-reviewed scientific papers. Wikipedia appears to have a biography for every bimbo who has ever been on American Idol, for every Major League Baseball player, for every character on Star Trek. Surely, a well-known scientist is noteworthy enough. Google "Patricia Adair Gowaty" and you retrieve 3,270 results, all of them clearly linking to discussions of her scientific and theoretical work. Metzenberg (talk) 03:34, 12 October 2008 (UTC)