LeBlanc G A
Department of Toxicology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
Environ Health Perspect. 1994 Mar;102(3):266-7. doi: 10.1289/ehp.94102266.
Recent interest has been expressed in the possible need to develop ways to detect and quantify pollutants that affect evolution. Although environmental pollutants clearly can affect evolutionary processes, the evolutionary changes are a response to ecosystem-level toxicity elicited by the pollutant, rather than a direct effect of the pollutant on evolution. Accordingly, emphasis needs to be placed on assessing the adverse effects of environmental pollutants on ecosystem structure and function in order to avoid subsequent evolutionary consequences.
近期人们对开发检测和量化影响进化的污染物的方法的潜在需求表示出兴趣。虽然环境污染物显然会影响进化过程，但进化变化是对污染物引发的生态系统层面毒性的一种反应，而非污染物对进化的直接影响。因此，需要重点评估环境污染物对生态系统结构和功能的不利影响，以避免后续的进化后果。
