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All books have strengths and weaknesses, and what those strengths and weaknesses are may depend to some extent upon the reader. That is a necessary dis-claimer for any review of any book with the words “molecular evolution ” on the title page. The book seems to target the systematics community, but molecular evo-lution is actually a much broader field. In fact, molecu-lar evolution is one of the few fields where books with that title can have largely nonoverlapping content. Al-though I will ultimately emphasize some of the differ-ences in perspective in the field of molecular evolution and some of what is missing or differently interpreted compared with my own perspective from evolutionary genomics, I will start by describing the book and what it does well