Talk:Conservative replacement

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@Manudouz: Although I'm sympathetic to your renaming, "conservative replacement" and "conservative mutation" have similar numbers of hits on a google scholar search, and are used pretty interchangeably in the literature. For now I've left the page as moved, and added the alternative term in the lead sentence. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 10:33, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Evolution and evolvability: Dear Thomas: thank you for your remark. I also added substitution in the lead sentence. Actually, things would be more accurate if the terms replacement / mutation / substitution were used together with either nucleotides or amino acids. -- Manudouz (talk) 20:54, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Manudouz: You're quite right. We had similar issues over Protein expression versus gene expression and protein production. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 22:31, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]