Eventually a competing theory involving the gradual accumulation of mutations was shown to occur in nature so often that geneticists largely dismissed the moving gene hypothesis. 最后,有人提出突變逐漸積累的競爭性假說(shuō),面這一現象被發(fā)現在自然界存在,所以遺傳學(xué)家多半不再考慮移動(dòng)基因假說(shuō)。