More particularly, these are things that through the course of human evolution have been dangerous to us.

更特别的是，有些东西在人类进化后,对我们很危险。

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So first, you might say, well food is something that's found in nature, that humans have evolved to eat foods that are found in nature.

首先,你可能会说,食品是发现于自然界的东西,然后人类进化以适应食用这些自然之物

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In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.

就像对人类进化至关重要的大拇指，经历了一场大地震后，如果所有有这种拇指的人都消失了,那么人类就很可能永远不能进化。

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Hunger is not essentially a message to other people but when humans when it involves a loud noise the reason why we've evolved loud noises is to communicate with other people.

饥饿不是一个传达给别人的信息,但人类会发出很大的声音,我们为什么会进化出很大的声音,就是为了与人沟通。

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And so one could say that there is a very unfortunate mismatch between our biology and our evolution and the modern food environment, because biology of course takes thousands and thousands, millions of years even to change, but the food environment has changed relatively recently.

可以说,在人类的生物进化和现在的,食品环境之间存在着非常不幸的脱节,生物学上的改变要花上,成千上万年的时间,但是食品环境却可以在短时间内迅速改变

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But what seems likely is the sort of phobias you're likely to have does not have much to do with your personal history but rather it has a lot to do with your evolutionary history.

但你可能患有的恐怖症,似乎与你的个人经历无关,而与人类进化史有着很大的关系。

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