Clarity of language

Well, Faith, I was irritated--as you often are.

My point is that it is possible to express with lucidity the subtlest ideas. There are various types of obscurity. There is deliberate obscurity. This is the pretension of being on the inside of some group, and one is keeping the outsiders in their place. There is unintentional obscurity. In this case, the writer's ideas are vague. He doesn't understand precisely what he wants to talk about.It is true, of cuurse, that "esoteric" is a relative term. What seems esoteric to one person might not be esoteric at all to someone else. Some of the biological terms I've come across on this forum seem obfuscating to me, but such terms might be like "please" and "thank you" in the circles of those who are using them. I have, however, my doubts.I have my doubts, and I am rather impatient with someone who says to me--not in so many words of course--"If you don't know my lingo, then you can't talk to me."Thanks, Faith, for starting this topic.

When you put it that way, it makes me want to try to figure out the difference. I haven't figured it out, but what I mean is that, yes, communication across fields requires effort on both sides.

Something like in meiosis the number of chromosomes get split in half whereas in mitosis the whole thing gets reproduced. Something like that.

I suppose the significane of meiosis and crossing-over as regards TOE is that such processes lead to more changes in the offspring? Just guessing.

You are off topic!