Telling the Evolutionary Time
Subtitle: Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record (Systematics Association Special Volume)
Contributors: Philip C J Donoghue (Editor); M. Paul Smith (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: December 16, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780415275248
First sentence: The neutrality theory of molecular evolution predicts that the rate of molecular evolution is constant over time, and thus that there is a molecular clock that can be used for timing evolutionary events.