Are you sure that Dr. Provine is familiar with Gladyshev's work? If not, you need to spell out what "Gladyshev's extension of Gibbs' thought" means.
I wouldn't mind if you did that RIGHT here. Remember, since questions have to be succinct, try to do it in 2 or 3 sentences... but if you can't, then write a lot and we'll try to help make a question out of it.
(Cool. The article makes it seem that the claim of biological transmutation is controversial. Why would people be reluctant to accept that an organism can transmutate one element to another?)