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More than a quarter of a century has passed since the publication of Zuckerkandl and Pauling’s (1965) seminal article on the evolutionary implications of macromolecular sequence data. Two fundamental suggestions were made in that article: first, Zuckerkandl and Pauling pointed out that molecular change (nucleotide or amino acid substitutions) might occur at a rate that is proportional to clock time (the molecular clock hypothesis); and second, they noted that the topology of evolutionary branchings (phylogenies) could be deduced from the pattern of molecular change. These two related suggestions form the theoretical underpinnings of the science of molecular evolution.
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Clegg, M.T., Zurawski, G. (1992). Chloroplast DNA and the Study of Plant Phylogeny: Present Status and Future Prospects. In: Soltis, P.S., Soltis, D.E., Doyle, J.J. (eds) Molecular Systematics of Plants. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3276-7_1
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