These are mechanisms that can be described not too differently from mechanisms that you're familiar with for maintaining homeostasis.

这些过程说起来,与你们熟悉的环境稳定机制,并无太大不同

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And they did this through two sorts of mechanisms: assimilation and accommodation.

而这一过程可以通过两种机制实现,同化和顺应

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