This microevolution forms an integral part of the grand evolution problem and lies at the base of it, so that we shall have to understand the minor process before we can thoroughly comprehend the more general one..."However, Leavitt was using the term to describe what we would now call developmental biology; it was not until Russian Entomologist Yuri Filipchenko used the terms "macroevolution" and "microevolution" in 1927 in his German language work, "Variabilität und Variation", that it attained its modern usage.
This microevolution forms an integral part of the grand evolution problem and lies at the base of it, so that we shall have to understand the minor process before we can thoroughly comprehend the more general one…"Однако, можно считать, что Ливитт использовал термин для обозначения современной биологии развития, а термины макро- и микроэволюция впервые вместе употребил с современными значениями российский энтомолог Юрий Филипченко в своем труде «Variabilität und Variation», изданном на немецком языке в 1927 году.