Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.

  • -- Ernst Mayr 迈尔

生活在一个完全不同的物理和生物环境中,这样的群体将有独特的机会进入新的利基市场,并选择新的适应途径。

相关名言

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

对于这一类人,我们可以把它留给改进本国的方言,用借用西方命名法的科学术语来丰富这些方言,并使它们逐渐成为向广大人民传播知识的工具。

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

令人惊讶的是,整个人口对未来没有任何计划,根本没有。这当然是不寻常的,但却是千真万确的。

My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.

我的目标是通过歌曲讲述有意义的故事,触动人们的生活……希望以此谋生。

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.

写歌的原则:说你想说的话,再说一遍,换一种方式再说一遍。

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

人们一直在问人类学和社会学有什么不同,每个人都很紧张。

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

生命本身不过是死亡的影子,灵魂的离去不过是活人的影子。