Molecular Evolutionary Clock

Simon Ho is a Professor of Molecular Evolution at the University of Sydney. His research interests include molecular evolution, phylogenetics, and molecular clocks. He previously worked at the Australian National University, after receiving his doctorate from the University of Oxford.

• Part 1. Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Molecular Clock and Evolutionary Rates Across the Tree of Life.- Chapter 2. Molecular Evolution: A Brief Introduction.- Chapter 3. Spontaneous Mutation Rates.- Chapter 4. Causes of Variation in the Rate of Molecular Evolution.- Part 2. Molecular Dating.- Chapter 5. Principles of Molecular Dating.- Chapter 6. Bayesian Molecular Dating.- Chapter 7. Clock Models for Evolution of Discrete Phenotypic Characters.- Chapter 8. Calibrations from the Fossil Record.- Part 3. Calibrating Molecular Clocks.- Chapter 9. Biogeographic Dating of Phylogenetic Divergence Times Using Priors and Processes.- Chapter 10. Estimating evolutionary rates and timescales from time-stamped data.- Chapter 11. Total-Evidence Dating and the Fossilized Birth-Death Model.- Part 4. Phylogenomics.- Chapter 12. Efficient methods for dating evolutionary divergences.- Chapter 13. Bayesian Phylogenomic Dating.