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Special Issue: The Journal of Molecular Evolution Turns 50
In this special issue, we celebrate the history of this journal and the field that it chronicled over the last half century and here we highlight some of the most important studies that were published over the journal’s history. This sampling of topics reflects the choices of individual editors and is necessarily non-exhaustive. We invited current members of the editorial board to each choose an article from the journal archive that has had a substantial impact on their respective discipline and write a perspective piece summarizing the article, its scientific context, the subsequent research that it motivated since its publication, and their perspective on future directions in that area. We present 10 such articles in this issue, which span a broad range of topics with molecular evolution. While the articles in this 50th anniversary edition celebrate a selection of the past achievements published in the journal, they also describe the subsequent research that they have motivated since its publication and the future research that they are likely to inspire. As documented here, molecular evolution has had a storied history. It will also undoubtedly have a far reaching and consequential future, where it now more than ever lies at the center of modern biology (Goldman and Liberles, 2021).
Editors
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Aaron D. Goldman
Department of Biology, Oberlin College and Conservatory, Oberlin, OH, 44074, USA; Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA, 98154, USA
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David A. Liberles
Department of Biology and Center for Computational Genetics and Genomics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA
