He and his colleagues reckon they can both estimate the rate of evolution and identify many of the evolving genes, by using a trick with the clumsy name of linkage disequilibrium.

• 他和他的同事们猜想通过应用一种叫做连接不均衡的技术，他们既能估计出进化的速度，还能鉴别出很多正在进化中的基因。