人类演变为节约能量,而不是浪费能量,而且迄今为止我们聪明的机体已经成功挫败了几乎所有科学家们的治疗肥胖症的意图。
Humans evolved to conserve energy, not waste it, and so far our clever bodies have managed to foil nearly all of scientists' attempts to treat obesity.
不管有没有人类的影响,生态系统都会随时间演变,因此没有人可以说出夏威夷看起来应该是什么样的。
Ecosystems change over time, with or without the involvement of mankind, so no one can tell what Hawaii should look like.
作者认为,这是迄今为止在非人类物种领域发现的最复杂、最快捷的跨区域文化演变模式。
The authors say it's one of the most complex and rapid patterns of cultural evolution across a region ever observed in a nonhuman species.
复活节岛上土壤中的一种微生物产生的化学物质在亿万年的演变中,本应与人类没有直接关系。
A tiny molecule harvested from a soil bacterium on Easter Island that evolved billions of years ago for no obvious purposes should have nothing to do with human beings.
但如果我们能使人类的兴旺与科技的进步保持一致,我们就能更好的理解科技演变的方向。
But if we're going to reconcile human flourishing with the march of technology, it might help to understand what technology is marching toward.
之前的研究表明这种基因变种让人类更容易演变成慢性阻塞性肺疾病,而当前的研究则对这种现象给出了一个解释。
Previous research showed that this gene variant makes humans more liable to develop chronic-obstructive disease (COPD), and the current study provides an explanation for this observation.
城邦是自然的演变,因为它源自,较小单位形式的人类结合。
The polis is natural in the sense that it has grown out of smaller and lesser forms of human association.
当人类发明了乐谱后,音乐便开始脱离表演,演变成文字得以记录和传播。
When mankind invented musical scores, music bagan to break from the boundaties of being only a performing art and developed into a system of written symbols that can be recorded and spread.
当人类发明了乐谱后,音乐便开始脱离表演,演变成“文字”得以记录和传播。
When mankind invented musical scores, music started to break away from the boundaries of being merely a performing art, and develop into a system of "written symbols" that can be recorded and spread.
科罗拉多州一位野生动物管理署发言人泰勒•巴斯克菲尔德(TylerBaskfield)说,这里的熊经过两代的演变,发现如果吃人类的食物,它们的生活会好得多。
'We have two generations of bears that have figured out they can make a much better living off human food, ' said Tyler Baskfield, a state wildlife spokesman.
因此,尽管人类从猴子演变而来不是真的,但如果你发散思维,就会明白为什么会说猴子是我们的近亲。
So, while it's not true that human beings evolved from monkeys, if you stretch your thinking you can see how monkeys can be considered relatives of ours.
这使得生物学家得出这样的结论:利他主义是人类本性的一部分,然而他们不能决定这种本性是怎样形成和样演变的。
This has led biologists to conclude that altruism is a part of human nature.What they cannot decide is how or why it evolved.
上次我们谈论到了关于人类进化论的错误观念:人类是猴子演变而来的。
Last time we talked about the false belief that evolutionary theory says human beings descended from monkeys.
没有了雨水,土地开始沙化,逐渐演变成我们今天所熟悉的大沙漠,迫使人类与动物背井离乡,到处寻找日益减少的水源。
Without rain, the land began to turn to the desert that we know today, leaving people and animals to seek ever-dwindling sources of water.
科学家希望他们的工作可以为医学研究人员打下基础,以加深我们了解肿瘤在人类和其他种类动物身上演变过程。
The scientists hope their work can be built upon by medical researchers to advance our knowledge of cancer progression in humans and other animal species.
史上最伟大的展示:人类进化演变的迹象。
亚里士多德关于自然演变的主张,似乎包含了奴役,分类地,将人类区别成主与奴。
Aristotle's claim about naturalness seems to require, as he told us, slavery, the categorical distinction of humanity into masters and slaves.
引起人们更多好奇心的是,正如德萨尔乐研究小组发现的一样,这些简单动物属于这样一类有机体,它们与那些后来演变为人类的生物体是平行进化的。
More intriguingly, these simple creatures belong to a group of organisms that, as DeSalle's team discovered, evolved in parallel to those that later developed into humans.
事实上,就演变进程而言,将阅读作为一种逃避方式是新近的人类活动,传统的自我疗救是酒精或麻药。
The fact is that in evolutionary terms, reading in an escapist way is a very recent human activity, nothing like as traditional a method of self-medication as drink, say, or even drugs.
另一方面,人类有史以来,世界历史从区域性记载走向了不断演变的多样化讨论。
And secondly, for the first time ever, world history moves from being a confined regional fact to an evolving and diverse discussion.
灵长类泡沫病毒可以感染人类但无害,但研究人员担心它们可能会演变成具有危险性。
Primate foamy viruses can infect humans harmlessly, but researchers fear they may evolve to become dangerous.
生殖性肿瘤可能就是人类寿命延长和社会文化演变的产物。
Reproductive cancers may be a function of longer lives and changing cultures.
他看似,以人类学家角色写自然演变史。
He seems there to be a kind of anthropologist writing a natural history.
2009年2月12日—当前的金融危机正迅速演变为一场人类危机。
February 12, 2009-the financial crisis is fast becoming a human crisis.
项目研究人员分别来自美国斯坦福、乔治亚和宾夕法尼亚州立大学,他们试图找出人类进化过程中基因的演变。
The researchers at Stanford, Georgia and Pennsylvania State universities in the US wanted to trace evolutionary changes in human DNA.
韦拉克鲁斯的居民和一些记者声称,病毒可能是在农场的猪中演变的,然后通过受感染的废物所污染的水或者昆虫传递到人类。
Vercruz residents and some journalists have alleged that the virus could have evolved in the farm's pigs, then passed into humans through water or insects tainted by infected waste.
地下水是敏感和脆弱的环境要素,其演变直接影响着人类的生存和健康。
Groundwater is a sensitive and vulnerable environmental factor. Its evolution directly influences the existence and health of mankind.
人类的时间意识不仅具有客观性,也具有主观的建构性、价值的引导性与历史的演变性。
Mans sense of time not only is of objectivity, but also of subjective creation, value directiveness and historical development.
人类的时间意识不仅具有客观性,也具有主观的建构性、价值的引导性与历史的演变性。
Mans sense of time not only is of objectivity, but also of subjective creation, value directiveness and historical development.
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