Molecular Evolution Activities

1973
Tomoko Ohta proposes the Nearly Neutral Theory
Ohta's paper "Slightly Delterious Mutant Substitutions in Evolution," Nature 246 (1973): 96-98 marks the beginning of the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution.
--Michael Dietrich
 
Proposal of Nearly Neutral Theory
From Tomoko Ohta's Top Ten List of Significant Events in Molecular Evolution

-- Molecular Evolution Staff-October 9, 2002



Nearly neutral mutations -- Ohta
From James Crow's Top Ten List of Significant Events in Molecular Evolution

-- Michael Dietrich-February 6, 2003