With the discovery of the importance of regulatory genes, we realize that he was ahead of his time in focusing on the importance of a few genes controlling big changes in the organisms, not small-scales changes in the entire genome as neo-Darwinians thought.
Co descubrimento da importancia de xenes reguladores, decatámonos de que estaba adiantado ao seu tempo ao centrarse na importancia duns poucos xenes que controlaban grandes cambios nos organismos, non cambios a pequena escala no xenoma completo como pensaban os neodarwinistas.