TOM Jukes accepted our invitation to write a Perspecduced an immediate outcry from traditional students of evolution, undoubtedly abetted by the title. In the tives on the early history of molecular evolution, and in August 1999 he sent a rough beginning conensuing polemics, Kimura played the major role. King died prematurely in 1983 and Jukes wrote mainly about taining some now-forgotten early...