In the new system, two human divers interact in front of dolphins: First they play a synthesized whistle sound, then one hands the other a scarf or a piece of seaweed.
在新的系统里,两个人类潜水员在海豚面前交流:首先他们播放一声合成的哨音,然后其中一个人交给另一个人一块帕子或者一片水草。
Maybe there are some other species in which object play is more human-like than we are used to thinking.
或许这里会有一些其他物种在玩耍方面比我们以往想象的更加人类化。
Their genetics—including the genetics of sleep—have been studied for almost a century, and many of the genes that play a role in human sleep resemble those that control sleep in fruit flies.
它们的遗传信息已经被研究了将近一个世纪,其中包括关于睡眠的遗传信息。 许多影响人类睡眠的基因与控制果蝇睡眠的基因相似。
Warren says now that researchers have a map of the zebra finch genome, they can carry out experiments to identify which genes in the finch's brain are most critical to hearing and producing song - and by extension, which genes may play a role in human speech disorders, like those related to stuttering, autism,and Parkinson's disease.
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The essay that you read in its entirety for today, "Structure, Sign and Play in the Language of the Human Sciences," was delivered on the occasion of a conference about "the sciences of man" at Johns Hopkins University in 1966.
今天我们要读的是一整篇文章,名为《人文科学话语中的结构、符号和游戏》,这篇文章发表于1966年,在约翰普金斯大学召开的一个会议上,会议主题是“人类科学“
Mechanisms like habituation, classical conditioning and operant conditioning are real; they can be scientifically studied; and they play an important role in the lives of animals and probably an important role in human lives as well.
诸如习惯化,经典条件作用,操作性条件作用之类的机制,都是真实存在的;,这些机制都能得到科学的研究;,它们在动物的生活里起到了重要的作用,或许在我们人类的生活中,也同样起到了重要的作用。
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