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Evolutionary Rate at the Molecular Level

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Calculating the rate of evolution in terms of nucleotide substitutions seems to give a value so high that many of the mutations involved must be neutral ones.

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KIMURA, M. Evolutionary Rate at the Molecular Level. Nature 217, 624–626 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217624a0

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