One of Mr Ball’s heroes is Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, a Scottish biologist and polymath, who in 1917 wrote “On Growth and Form”.

波尔先生所敬慕的人中有一位是达可•温沃斯•汤姆逊爵士，一位学识广博的苏格兰生物学家。 1917年，他写了《生长成形论》。

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One of Mr Ball's heroes is Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, a Scottish biologist and polymath, who in 1917 wrote "On Growth and Form".

波尔书中的主角之一是苏格兰生物学家、分子数学家达西·温特沃斯·汤姆逊，他在1917年写了《关于生长和形成》。

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If sufficient rain falls the next year to form another lake, the eggs hatch, and once again the shrimps pass rapidly through their cycle of growth, adulthood, egg-laying, and death.

如果第二年有足够的雨水形成另一个湖泊，卵就会孵化，小虾会再次快速地经历生长、成年、产卵和死亡的循环。

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This is by the famous biologist, D'Arcy Thompson, who wrote the book On Growth and Form, and it's sort of the model of many developmental psychologists and many evolutionary psychologists so I'll end with this: "Everything is the way it is because it got that way."

这是著名的生物学家,达西·汤普森所提出的,他写了一本叫做《论生长和形态》的书,这句话也是许多发展心理学家,和进化心理学的理论模型,所以我用这句话来作为结束,"万物如此,皆因其本"

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