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Rates Of Evolution

Rates of Evolution is a quantitative macroevolutionary concept that denotes the tempo at which heritable genetic or phenotypic changes accumulate in lineages per unit time or generation, thereby enabling comparison of evolutionary dynamics among taxa, traits, and geological intervals.

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EVOLUTION IN MENDELIAN POPULATIONS

Sewall Wright · Genetics · 1931 · 9.1K citations · Full text

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Evolutionary Rate at the Molecular Level

Nature · 1968 · 3.8K citations

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Defining ‘Evolutionarily Significant Units’ for conservation

Craig Moritz · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1994 · 3.4K citations

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Punctuated equilibria: the tempo and mode of evolution reconsidered

Stephen Jay Gould, Niles Eldredge · Paleobiology · 1977 · 2.7K citations

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Estimating Absolute Rates of Molecular Evolution and Divergence Times: A Penalized Likelihood Approach

Michael J. Sanderson · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2002 · 2K citations · Full text

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    Simon Y. W. Ho

    The University of Sydney, Australia

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    Adam Eyre‐Walker

    University of Sussex, United Kingdom

    15 publications · 1.9K citations

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    Brian Charlesworth

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    14 publications · 2.2K citations

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    Luke J. Harmon

    University of Idaho, United States

    12 publications · 2K citations

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    Sewall Wright

    University of Chicago, United States

    11 publications · 11.7K citations

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  1. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    32 h-index

    63 publications

    11.4K citations

  2. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    30 h-index

    54 publications

    19.3K citations

  3. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    29 h-index

    52 publications

    8.8K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    29 h-index

    75 publications

    9.6K citations

  5. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    29 h-index

    47 publications

    15.8K citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    26 h-index

    93 publications

    4.8K citations

  7. University of Sussex

    Brighton, United Kingdom

    25 h-index

    53 publications

    6.8K citations

  8. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    25 h-index

    39 publications

    7.2K citations

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  1. Evolution

    163 publications · 21.9K citations

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  2. Molecular Biology and Evolution

    MBE · 100 publications · 18.6K citations

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  3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 54 publications · 9.5K citations

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  4. Systematic Biology

    55 publications · 5.5K citations

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  5. Genetics

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