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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution:
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is "start class" with a relatively lower completeness score (54). The article emphasizes the history and theory of the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution and one consequence of the theory, the "gene barrier" hypotheses. However, it lacks any discussion of the implications of the theory in evolutionary biology—specifically the use of the neutral model of evolution as a “null model” with which to assess selection, gene flow, and other evolutionary forces. As is, the article also lacks an acknowledgement to Kimura, who originally developed the neutral theory of the molecular evolution (from which the nearly neutral theory is derived). :
 * Sources
 * https://doi.org/10.1038/267275a0  https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1438.001 

Option 2

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 * Sex hormones:
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is listed as high importance and "start class" quality within the molecular biology wiki project. Despite its high importance, the article is fairly undeveloped. The introductory paragraph frames the function of sex hormones as molecules that bind to hormone receptors- which is uninformative and does not reflect the content in the article as a whole. The introduction emphasizes the molecular mechanisms of sex steroid action, however the remainder of the article focuses on the production of hormones (not their effects), the types of hormones (in list format), and a brief note about synthetic sex steroids. This article lacks a robust discussion of the molecular mechanisms of sex steroid action and subsequent physiological and genomic effects. The section on synthetic sex steroids seems like an afterthought due to the shallow coverage of the material. :
 * Sources
 * 10.1146/annurev.ph.58.030196.001155 https://doi.org/10.1530/eje.0.1480281  Book: Molecular mechanisms of hormone actions on behavior. ISBN: 0080958583

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Polyploid complex:
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is listed as "stub class" quality and is within the scope molecular biology wiki project. However, the article has not yet received a score of importance. The article currently is very minimal and contains a brief history of the term "polyploid complex" and one example of its usage to describe a plant group. The remaining information reads as a collection of undeveloped ideas related to polyploid complexes. This article lacks a discussion of the evolutionary implications of polyploid speciation and complexes and the possible molecular mechanisms of polyploidy. Importantly, the article also lacks references to the importance of polyploid complexes in plant biology and evolution. Another detriment to this article is that there is currently no discussion on the Talk page. :
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 *  https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.12466  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2009.12.003

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