User:Jjherlan/Ecological inheritance/NCcunyevo Peer Review

General info

 * Whose work are you reviewing?

Jjherlan


 * Link to draft you're reviewing
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jjherlan/Ecological_inheritance?veaction=edit&preload=Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org_draft_template
 * Link to the current version of the article (if it exists)
 * Ecological inheritance

Evaluate the drafted changes
The author does a particularly excellent job in their section on "Ecological inheritance, ecosystem engineering, and niche construction", outlining with really nice clarity the difference between each concept, and what we are practically talking about in each case. Understanding that Russian nesting doll style of terms seems really important in the overall understanding of the topic, and is handled well here.

The author also includes a great example of how the way earthworms shape their environment changes their inheritance of traits, that I found to be an excellent way to communicate what could otherwise easily become a confusingly theoretical topic, without such real world examples.

I would like to see the author expand upon elements of "the modern synthesis", one because I think the topic seems very interesting from the included hook of their subsection (the idea that organisms are influencing their own evolution) and because modern applications of a topic are always crucial for reception by a reader in science. If you can build this section with a few modern examples from current studies, it would be an excellent wrap-up to your article.

I think the portion of the article that needs the most attention would be the introductory section and definitions. I believe the intention of the author here is simply to outline and compile definitions of the topic from across the field to cut down to the best one, but currently it is very confusing. Most of it is too jargon filled, I would strongly suggest cutting down to the most simple and digestible definition for the layman. I would maybe also consider including a small portion on the origin of these theories to contextualize them in the history of other major concepts in the field that you include here.

Having read this article I've really taken away the importance of clearly identifying and explaining your terminology that is directly important to the topic, and would like to apply the style the author used to explain their terms in simple ways for my own topic.