evolutionary clock
noun
The process of biological evolution, or the rate at which evolutionary change is inferred to have proceeded, likened to the passage of time measured by a clock; specifically = molecular clock; also in extended use.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in John Christopher Willis (1868–1958).
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