This is an example of an exponential growth process and you're familiar with processes like these.

这是一个指数增长的过程,你们应该都很熟悉的

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So maybe a better way to talk about it would just be: Life's a biological process; we're all familiar with that process, sort of, in its middle stretches.

也许对此更好的表述方式是,生命是一个生物学过程,我们对这个过程都很熟悉,在它的中期

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