We've talked a lot about the capacities of the human mind and some of these capacities involve adapting and dealing with the material world.

我们讲过人类思想的能力,这些能力中包括适应力,以及应付物质世界的能力。

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Change often signals danger or opportunity and if we are especially tuned-in to change, it helps us survive ? and it helps us pass along our genes. Okay?

变化通常意味着危险和机遇,如果我们能调整适应变化，我们生存能力更强,并且能传递我们的基因，是不是？

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That efficient metabolism that banks calories is highly efficient, highly important, highly adaptable, under circumstances where food is scarce, but not efficient and not adaptive under modern food conditions in the developed world.

能高效存储能量的代谢系统,在食品短缺的情况下,非常重要,有着较强的适应能力,但却不能适应,现代发达国家的食品环境

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Now these parts of the world are shrinking in the number; but let's say you lived in Ethiopia or Somalia, or places where food really is scarce way too much of the time, then having this particular biological drive, having a brain that wants you to seek out these foods would be highly adaptive.

现在这些地区的数量正在减少,但如果你生活在埃塞俄比亚或是索马里,或是当前食品十分短缺的地区,那么拥有这种生物驱动力,拥有不断驱使你去寻找食物的大脑,会让你有极强的适应能力

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