If you are not allowed to see other pieces of nature, it's a profound encounter and so beautiful.

但当你看不到其他的生物时，这种际遇就是那么深刻而美妙。

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He is not a kind of socio-biologist of politics, although he sometimes appears this way when he says that man is a political animal.

他并不是一种政治学的社会生物学家，但他有时的确显得像,尤其是当他说到人类是政治动物时。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So, for example, when the body is in stress, as would likely happen toward the end of the biological processes, when the body is in stress, certain endorphins get released by the body.

比如说 当身体受到压力,这在生物学过程的末端,极易发生,当身体受压时,身体就会放出一定的内啡肽

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And one claim, which we're going to return to briefly next class when we talk about language, is that there's a very, very big difference between a creature that doesn't have language and a creature that does.

我们下节课讲述语言时,会简单地讲述一个观点,也就是在未掌握语言的生物,与掌握语言的生物之间,存在着巨大的差异

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Because you trust biomedical engineers to have done a good job in designing these things and we'll talk about how biomaterials are designed and tested, and what makes a material, the properties of a material that you could use as a contact lens, what are the properties that it needs to have.

因为你深信生物医学工程师们,在设计这些材料时,已经做了充分的工作,我们会讨论如何设计和测试这些生物材料,什么材质具有,能够用来,做成隐形眼镜的材料的属性,它们需要具备的特性究竟是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Those people would bank their calories, survive the next famine, contribute to the gene pool, and thereby create what we have today which are organisms, humans, who very much like the kind of diets that are creating problems.

这些人储存能量以保证,在下一次饥荒时得以幸存,使他们的基因保留在了基因库中,从而造就今天的生物体,即人类,人类非常喜欢这类饮食,从而引发了很多问题

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

When transcription happens and it turns out that there's a whole biology associated with this, including molecules that are floating around inside your cells called transcription factors, and their job-- they are molecules that are about particular genes and what some of the sequences and are able to turn on those genes inside cells, to make them transcribe.

研究证明,当细胞转录时,还有与之相关的一整套生物机制在运作,包括一种在你细胞中飘浮着的,称为转录因子的分子,它们的工作就是,它们知道该转录哪一段基因,该转录哪一段序列,然后把这些细胞中的基因激活,进行转录

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选