Johnjoe McFadden <j.mcfadden at surrey.ac.uk> writes:
>The punctuated equilibrium hypothesis of Gould and Eldridge, in which
>evolution is proposed to go through long periods of stasis interspersed
>with bursts of rapid evolution, is of course related to the fossil
>record. However, periods of rapid evolution should also leave their
>trace in molecular clocks.
This is not obvious to me.
The rapid evolution might involve changes to genes in a relatively
small fraction of the genome. It is my impression that the molecular
clock is mainly measured on proteins that have been relatively
stable.
