But it's all different degrees of terrible, if you will, because so many people in the population share that biological vulnerability and when the environment changes, we have the problems.

只要愿意,这造成的恐慌程度是不同的,因为在人群中有很多这样的群体,他们都有这种生物易损性,当环境发生变化时,就会出现问题

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This is raw intersection of biology and environment.

这就是生物特性和环境的的交叉点

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Reverse transcriptase is a naturally occurring protein, it has a biological function in HIV, but we can use it for a technical logical function here by going backwards on the biological path from messenger RNA to DNA.

反转录酶是在自然环境中存在的蛋白质,它在HIV中发挥着生物功能,但在这里它可以发挥一个技术功能,让它用信使RNA反转录出DNA

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And so one could say that there is a very unfortunate mismatch between our biology and our evolution and the modern food environment, because biology of course takes thousands and thousands, millions of years even to change, but the food environment has changed relatively recently.

可以说,在人类的生物进化和现在的,食品环境之间存在着非常不幸的脱节,生物学上的改变要花上,成千上万年的时间,但是食品环境却可以在短时间内迅速改变

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选