How do rates of mutation "power" molecular clocks?

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<span>Molecular clocks use rates of mutation to measure evolutionary time. Mutations add up at a fairly constant rate in the DNA of species that evolved from a common ancestor. The more mutations that happened in each lineage, the greater is the differences between these lineages.</span>

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