= Indrani Mukharji
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<Indrani Mukharji> is the author of a 2020 scientific memoir of <Emanuel Margoliash>. The memoir explains how work on <cytochrome c> connected <protein> chemistry with the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships. It follows the isolation and sequencing of the <protein> through to comparisons between species, showing how a laboratory material became evidence for <evolution>.<Emanuel Margoliash by Indrani Mukharji>[Title page and pp. 2–3; National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs, 2020]{ref}
One concrete example is the assembly of a <phylogenetic tree> from <cytochrome c> sequences for 20 species. The useful idea is to compare corresponding positions in the same <protein>, rather than treat every difference between organisms as an unrelated observation. <Indrani Mukharji>'s contribution here is documenting and explaining that scientific history; authorship of the memoir is distinct from authorship of the earlier experiments it describes.<Emanuel Margoliash by Indrani Mukharji>[Page 3: twenty-species sequence comparison and emergence of molecular phylogeny]{ref}
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