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进化
Evolution
I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.
我毫不怀疑，这种个性化的形式代表着人类进化的更高阶段。
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
从生物学上讲，物种是从一开始就积累了所有成功个体的实验结果。
Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
进化论很吸引人。对我来说，观察一个人的进化过程是最有趣的。
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
我们还必须被允许记住，进化，虽然它可以解释一切，但不能解释自己。
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
我把这个原理称为“自然选择原理”，根据这个原理，每一个微小的变化，如果有用的话，都可以用“自然选择”这个词来表示。
Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
我们的道德感真的在进化，将群体团结在一起，形成团队，为了与其他团队竞争，我们可以合作。
Philip is a living example of natural selection. He was as fitted to survive in this modern world as a tapeworm in an intestine.
菲利普就是自然选择的活生生的例子。他就像肠中的绦虫一样适合在现代社会生存。
I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
我在这里是进化过程的产物，没有多少例外。并且相对便宜地评估生命。
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
认为人类具有非人类完全没有的心理特征的观点与进化论是不一致的。
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
作为一种世界观，达尔文主义当然不能被驳倒，因为信仰是，一直是，而且将永远比事实更强大。
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
那些开始认真对待创世论的神学家应该注意一下科学的故事。
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
进化是一个紧密耦合的舞蹈，生命和物质环境是伙伴。从舞蹈中出现了实体盖亚。
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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。
Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
进化论的基本前提是一切事物都是自己产生的。
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
达尔文的理论是建立在严格经验主义的概括基础上的。你可以走出去，看到生物体确实在变化，变异是遗传的，每一个生物体都有能力在足够有利的环境下增加自己的数量。
We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.
我们在同域观察密切相关的物种，并推断它们是如何从一个共同的祖先进化而来的。
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.
达尔文先生指的是每一个物种个体的数量，由于某种原因，这些个体要么在成熟之前死亡，要么在成熟之后不久死亡。