The goal is to show that evolution is not an old, accepted idea, but continues to be the basis for new discoveries, itself changing with modern science.

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That's why he calls his essay "On Literary Evolution," not literary "revolution" but literary "evolution."

这就是为什么他的论文题目是，文学进化“,不是，文学革命，而是，文学进化“

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And so it really, not the course but the idea for the course, was an evolution three years four years ago, really, when I was involved in something called the Civic Values Task Force, which was started by Princeton Project 55.

所以说，不是这个课程,而是这个课程的设想，是在三四年前形成的，当时我参加了,公民价值专责小组，由普林斯顿大学55工程发起。

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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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