Jeffrey Olson says experts do not know what will take the place of the plants and animals that are lost, or how wildlife will survive in a changed environment.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Now you're saving a few calories because you don't even have to do that, so the food environment's changed in a lot of ways.

现在不需要这样,又节省了些力气,所以说食品环境改变了很多

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But as I said before, the food environment has changed very quickly and people have not.

但是就像之前说的,食品环境改变迅速,而人却没有

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Our environment has changed, the world has become industrialized.

我们生活的环境已经改变,全球普遍工业化

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So the environment has changed in a short time but evolution has not and there's a real mismatch now, which explains why you probably like Haagen-Dazs better than you like cauliflower.

所以食品环境在短时间内就能改变,但是进化不能 于是就有了错位,这也就能解释为什么哈根达斯,比菜花更受欢迎

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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

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