Re: Molecular clocks

Robert L Trivers (r.l.trivers@juno.com)
Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:21:40 -0600

Before the creationists jump into the intellectual crossfire I offer the
following as suggested readings:

Gillespie, J. H. 1984. The molecular clock may be an episodic clock.
Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences 81:8009-8013

Li, W. -h., M. Tanimura, & P. M. Sharp. 1987. An evaluation of the
molecular
clock hypothesis using mammalian DNA sequences. Journal of Molecular
Evolution
25:330-342.

Thorpe, J. P. 1982. The molecular clock hypothesis: Biochemical
evolution, genetic
differentiation, and sustematics. Annual Review of Ecology and
Systematics 13:139-168.

Francisco J. Ayala, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 94, pp. 7776-7783,
July 1997,.

Recent African origin of modern humans revealed by complete sequences of
hominoid mitochondrial DNAs'' by S. Horai, K. Hayasaka, R. Kondo, K.
Tsugane, and N. Takahata (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 1995 Jan
17;92(2):532-536).

These should be enougth to convince the rational that molecular clocks
ARE also ticking away the seconds that creationism has left to disrupt
real science.

Cheers,
RLT

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