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I removed text which was almost 100% copied from: http://www.whitebottom.com/philipball/biography.asp by User:140.109.169.9 (see also User talk:140.109.169.9) and have restored text that was contributed since. Feel free to restore any text that was cut that wasn't copied from that source. --Lexor|Talk 07:34, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Near beginning of article, there is a word "expensively" that should be "extensively". 104.34.224.48 (talk) 16:55, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nice catch but you do not need to leave a message here, just fix it yourself. Psychologist Guy (talk) 18:52, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Philip Ball has publicly stated that the statement about him advocating for the "extended evolutionary synthesis" is false, so I am removing that bit of the sentence. Berto (talk) 14:33, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

He doesn't speak out against the extended synthesis here [1] and Denis Noble described Ball as a proponent of the extended synthesis [2], [3]. A review here in the The Quarterly Review of Biology associates Ball's "new biology" with the extended synthesis [4]. Psychologist Guy (talk) 18:09, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]