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进化
Evolution
How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.
人类是如何进化到拥有如此惊人的才能和如此惊人的多样性的，我们还没有完全弄清楚……他知道的太少，没有什么可以衡量自己的标准。
Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken.
由于达尔文提出的模型，生物学取得了巨大的进步。但是达尔文接受的黑匣子现在被打开了，我们对世界的看法再次被动摇。
Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.
动物有利他主义的基因，这些基因在许多生物的进化中被选择，因为它们为物种的持续生存提供了优势。
One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time.
其中一个方面是，近几个世纪以来，我们认识到，我们所生活的世界，甚至宇宙，都是在漫长的时间里进化而来的。
From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
年复一年，环境变化是递增的，而且往往在我们的生活中几乎没有记录下来，但从进化或地质角度来看，正在发生的是爆炸性的变化。
But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.
但是序列比较不能解释复杂生物化学系统的发展，就像达尔文对简单眼睛和复杂眼睛的比较不能告诉他视觉是如何工作的一样。
Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.
今天，与过去一样，地球的四面体形式以及四面体与两极和赤道的关系保留了有利于快速进化的条件。
But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.
但是当你身在一个地方，在一个物理植物里，在一群人里，在一个共同的历史里，这就限制了你的进化和你向特定方向进化的能力。
In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.
在当今两个世界之间斗争的时代，渗透到几乎所有生物学分支基础上的两种对立和对立的趋势得到了特别明确的界定。
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.
在我们进化的早期阶段，从婴儿期到童年，然后幸运的是，我们长大了，我们人类现在最需要的，只是一个未来。
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.
从生物学上我们知道，新形式的生物体一开始尽可能地模拟它们的原始形态，即使它们必须在变化了的内部和外部条件下生存。
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
当然，在科学中，有些事情是值得怀疑的，需要讨论。但在科学所知的众多事物中，进化论与我们所知的任何事物一样确定无疑。
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
人类是一种多毛、有尾巴的四足动物的后代，可能生活在树上。
Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.
数字品牌整合是植入式广告发展的一部分。这只是营销人员用来将产品整合到展会中的另一种工具。如果你能把它包装起来，我们就能把它展示出来。
The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.
描述宇宙进化最生动、最深刻的方式无疑是追溯爱的进化。
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
爱是一种神圣的能量储备;它就像精神进化的血液。
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
进步的残酷被称为革命。当它们结束时，我们意识到:人类受到了粗暴的对待，但它已经进步了。
Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.
甚至当达尔文的学说第一次出现的时候，它的科学的、唯物主义的核心，即关于生命自然进化的学说，就立刻变得清晰起来，它与生物学中盛行的唯心主义是对立的。