As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

  • -- Ernst Mayr 迈尔

结果,遗传学家将进化简单地描述为种群中基因频率的变化,完全忽略了进化由两种同时存在但又截然不同的适应和多样化现象组成的事实。

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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.

如果人口增长、工业化以及我们排放到大气中的所有物质没有改变气候平衡,我绝对会大吃一惊。当然有。否认是没有正当理由的。

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

我的第一次销售的故事是这样的:我想出了一张万无一失的纸,骗走了一家保险公司几十万美元。

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

我也是一名作家。这是一个公众普遍不知道的事实。

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

因此,最优种群小于最大值。