Chris has talked about pandas being an evolutionary cul-de-sac, and it's certainly unusual for a carnivore to take up herbivory.

克里斯曾经说熊猫是进化的尽头，而对于食肉动物来说，摄取食草动物是很不寻常的。

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Following each mass extinction, there is a sudden evolutionary burst as new species develop to fill the ecological niches opened by the event.

在每一次物种大灭绝后，都有一次突然的进化爆发，因为会有新物种出现来填补灭绝创造的生态位。

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Here, the evolutionary theory must defer to a theory based on an explicit developmental mechanism that can favor either right or left-handedness.

在这里，进化理论必须遵从一种基于明确的发展机制的理论，这种机制可以支持右撇子或左撇子的现象。

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Darwin began work on a series of secret notebooks containing his thoughts about the evolutionary process.

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Well, this view, this evolutionary view, or evolutionary model, was challenged by man a named Yehezkel Kaufmann in the 1930's.

这个改进了的观点，或者说改进了的模型，在20世纪30年代受到了来自考夫曼的质疑。

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If so, then from an evolutionary standpoint any kindness towards an animal that an animal shows towards another animal--is a mystery.

如果这样，从进化论观点看,任何对动物善意行为,一个动物对另一个动物，是个谜团。

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"It could be a long evolutionary shift from a rental market to a housing market, " Firoved says.

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Though RNA editing has been observed before, in animals ranging from humans to nematode worms, this is the first time an edit has been tied to a clear evolutionary difference caused by a feature of the environment in this case ambient temperature.

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It is based on a piece of evolutionary theory called the founder effect, which shows how the isolation of small populations from larger ones can accelerate evolutionary change, because a small population's average characteristics are likely to differ from those of the larger group from which it is drawn.

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