Are we really seeing the big picture？ Some reflections on the current debates in evolutionary biology  

作　　者：De-Xing ZHANG 

机构地区：[1]Institute of Zoology, and Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 1 O0101, China

出　　处：《Current Zoology》2015年第1期217-220,共4页动物学报（英文版）

摘　　要：After more than one hundred fifty years of the publication of On the Origin of Species by Darwin, scientists are still arguing on the relative importance of mutation and natural selection, on the driving force of organismal evolution, on microevo- lution and macroevolution, etc. Such periodically repeated debates appeared to have introduced more chaos than musings. What happened and why？ Have we really considered our views, opinions and arguments under the big picture of evolution before pos- ing the questions？ Or are we talking past each other？ We do need some reflections. While we believe that the current evolutionary theory is doing fine, perhaps a refinement or re-encapsulation of its knowledge framework can help promote a better understanding of the evolutionary science as a whole and blow offthe mist over the big picture [Current Zoology 61 （1）： 217-220, 2015 ].

关 键 词：Mutation-driven evolution Development-driven evolution Macroevolution-driven evolution EVO-DEVO Natural selection Toot-kit genes Hox genes 

分 类 号：Q111[生物学—普通生物学] Q10