Talk:Ontogeny and Phylogeny/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 16:31, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Many thanks as always for taking this on. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:46, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Comments

• "changes in the timing of embryonic development" I got confused reading this, perhaps put it in parentheses.

Done.

• "that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" as this is quite technical, is there any chance of a footnote explaining it in non-expert terms?

Added.

• (Aside: is there any reason the article title needs (book) as a disambiguator? There is no Ontogeny and Phylogeny article, after all)

Avoids confusion with "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"; if you feel that's not a worry then we can move the article after this GAN is completed.

I don't think that's confusing so I would recommend a move after this GAN. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 18:21, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

• "This later work was published..." unref sentence.

Added ref.

• "fetalisation theory" any link, explanation? And I assume we're now in USEng or that would be foetalisation?

Used -z- as that's how Bolk's work is described. Not sure any better link than Louis Bolk is available.

• "n Paleobiology, " that links to the science, not some kind of publication.

Fixed.

• Same in the accompanying reference.

Fixed.

• "noted that 2 years earlier" two

Fixed.

• " ad- vanced" copy/paste issue? Fix and check others.

Made 2 fixes.

• "excellently illustrated with often surprising examples, " this should be either attributed, quoted or neutralised in tone.

Attributed.

• Ref 4 (along with the note above about the Paleobiology link) needs access-date and pref format=pdf

Formatted, used jstor as source.

• "Book preview - Google Books" en-dash.

Fixed.

That's it for me. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 10:16, 27 September 2021 (UTC)