Why can it be said that proteins behave like molecular clocks?

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Shieldfoss · Answer 1 · 2018-01-23T20:56:41+0000

Proteins can serve as a molecular clock because their sequences diverge with increasing evolutionary distance between species. The smaller the number of difference in the amino acid sequence the closer to the current time they diverged

Why can it be said that proteins behave like molecular clocks?

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