A molecular clock enables biologists to estimate the rate of mutations or DNA sequence changes among a set of species on the basis of the time elapsed since their last common ancestor. Molecular clock estimates can be used to determine the temporal dimension of various evolutionary processes, e.g., rates of protein evolution or rates of speciation of particular taxa.
All applications are probabilistic (although some are deterministic, i.e., exact estimates are available). Molecular clock metho
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