What is the first step in evolution?
进化的第一步是什么？
The idea of irreversibility in evolution stuck and came to be known as "Dollo's law".
进化中不可逆性的观点得到了证明，并被称为“多洛法则”。
Most researchers expect to find that both modes of transition from one species to another are at work in evolution.
大多数研究人员希望发现从一个物种到另一个物种的两种转变模式都在进化中起作用。
Ethologists—specialists in animal behavior—are interested in evolution, so they define the term narrowly.
动物行为学专家对进化很感兴趣，所以他们对这个术语的定义很狭义。
Don't you believe in evolution?
难道你不相信进化论吗？
你相信进化论吗？
The future is a new invention in evolution.
“未来”是在进化过程中新的创造。
And that's the explanation that exists in evolution.
而这也是进化论中存在的一种解释。
The farther back it goes in evolution, right? And it generalizes across species.
它的背面去更远的演变，对不对？它概括跨越物种。
CREATE or EDITI your IMAP account in Evolution, setting the following features.
创建或者编辑你在Evolutiong中的IMAP账户，设置如下特性。
“This is a key point in evolution, ” Dr. Berg said, “when RNA learned to make proteins.”
这是进化的关键点，Berg博士说，当RNA学会如何制造蛋白质的那一刻。
The common imagesof Halloween probably date to a slightly more recent period in evolution.
万圣节的典型恐怖形象则可能来源于进化史上稍靠后的时期。
This kind of plasticity may play a vital role in evolution as well as during the lifetime of individuals.
这种可塑性不仅贯穿生命个体的一生，也许对进化也产生了至关重要的作用。
In evolution, trust served humans well because it increased the chances that vulnerable infants would survive.
在进化中，信任很好的服务于人类因为它增加了脆弱群体生存的机会。
In general, as you might expect, a country's belief in evolution is inversely correlated with its belief in God.
正如你所希望的那样，从大体上看来，一个国家对进化论的信任程度与它对神的信任程度是反相关的。
Now scientists say that by separating our heads from our bodies, the neck gave our brains a leg up in evolution.
现在科学家宣称脖子通过将我们的头部从躯干上分离开，给大脑的进化助了一臂之力。
As they report in Evolution, Dr Turner and his team performed their trick with a type of virus called a bacteriophage.
在《进化》上发表的文章中，特纳博士与他的团队用一种名为噬菌体的病毒来展示他们的新发现。
Even if we consider there might be civilizations closer to us in evolution, there is absolutely nothing on Earth they need.
即使我们觉得存在进化上接近我们的地外文明，但是地球上绝对没有它们需要的东西。
If you look back in evolution to say, the sea slug Aplysia, you see that the building blocks of this brain have not changed.
如果我们回首看进化早期的生物，以海蛞蝓类的海兔为例，你会发现脑的基本构成没有改变。
In their experiment, published in Evolution and Human Behavior, they split 96 male and female graduate students into three groups.
他们的实验结果发表在《进化与人类行为》杂志上。实验中，他们把96名男女研究生分成三组。
We have incorporated genetics, and expanded and refined our understanding of natural selection, and of the other forces in evolution.
我们已经吸纳了遗传学，扩大和完善我们对于自然选择及其它进化力量的理解。
This criticism applies to many believers in evolution who are not actually workers in the field, as well as those who reject the theory.
批评声来自于那些许多相信进化论却又不在这个领域工作的人，也来自拒绝接受这一理论的人。
Only 23% of them accept that there is solid evidence of man-caused global warming, for example; about as many as believe in evolution.
如比，他们中只有23%的人认为有确凿的证据证明人类活动引起全球变暖；这与相信进化论的人数相差无几。
Or to rest your head. Now scientists say that by separating our heads from our bodies, the neck gave our brains a leg up in evolution.
现在科学家宣称脖子通过将我们的头部从躯干上分离开，给大脑的进化助了一臂之力。
In a study just published in Evolution and Human Behavior, Dr Lassek and Dr Gaulin show that this crucial characteristic is true for men's muscles.
在一本刚刚出版的专题论文《人类行为与进化》中，Lassek博士和Gaulin博士指出：性选择的这一关键性的特征对于男人的肌肉来说是毋庸置疑的。
This raised the astonishing possibility that the ancestor of all dinosaurs had hairlike feathers and that some species lost them later in evolution.
于是有学者提出了这样一种令人惊讶的可能性，是不是所有恐龙的祖先都拥有细长的羽毛，只是某些物种在进化过程中渐渐失去了这些羽毛。
According to public Policy Polling, only 21 percent of Republican voters in Iowa believe in global warming (and only 35 percent believe in evolution).
根据公共政策普调，在爱荷华州的共和党选民中，只有21%的受访者相信全球变暖(只有35%认相信进化论)。
Andrew Hudson at the University of Edinburgh says there is a clear implication that "DNA methylation and epigenetic changes are important in evolution."
爱丁堡大学的AndrewHudson表示，这明显意味着“DNA甲基化和表观基因变异在进化中是非常重要的”。
REM sleep, the brain state most highly correlated with anxious, angry dreams, occurs late in evolution and early in the lives of those creatures which have REM.
在快速动眼睡眠中，大脑的状态与焦虑和生气的梦联系最紧密，这种现象发生在进化末期，以及那些有此类睡眠的动物的早期生活。
REM sleep, the brain state most highly correlated with anxious, angry dreams, occurs late in evolution and early in the lives of those creatures which have REM.
在快速动眼睡眠中，大脑的状态与焦虑和生气的梦联系最紧密，这种现象发生在进化末期，以及那些有此类睡眠的动物的早期生活。
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