Neutral theory of molecular evolution

The neutral theory of molecular evolution (also, simply the neutral theory of evolution) is an influential theory that was introduced with provocative effect by Motoo Kimura in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although the theory was received by some as an argument against Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, Kimura and most evolutionary biologists today maintain that the two theories are compatible. The theory attributes a large role to genetic drift.

See also

• Evolution
• Molecular evolution
• Unified neutral theory of biodiversity
• Ewens's sampling formula
• Warren Ewens
• Tomoko Ohta
• Motoo Kimura
• John Gillespie
• Thomas Jukes