Human DNA carries the information that decides our heredity, the characteristics passed on to us by our ancestors.

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We are beings, he argues again in the opening chapters, whose fundamental characteristics as human beings are willing and choosing.

我们是众生,他在开篇几章中重申,我们作为人最根本的特征,就是意愿和选择。

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The many civilizations adopted by the human race have shared basic characteristics.

人类承袭的多样文明,都有着共同的基本特征

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And that was possible in smallpox because of a few characteristics of the disease: one is that it's a--it's purely a human disease, humans are the only organisms that are affected by it.

天花能够被根治的原因在于,这种疾病具有以下几个特点,一是,它是一种只有人类才得的疾病,人类是唯一受天花感染的生物

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So, if those are the distinctive characteristics that earn the human being certain rights over creation But also give them duties towards creation, And the human is distinct from animals In being created in the image of God, To be godlike is to perhaps possess some of these characteristics.

那么，如果这些都是与众不同的特点,它们让人类有权利管理其他创造物,但是也让他们对其他创造物负有责任，人类与其他动物不同,因为他们是依照上帝的形象所创造，与上帝相像便可以获得一些这样的特点。

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