So, I want to stress the sense of natural development, not some kind of a central authority making a decision about anything.

我在这里强调,这是一种自然的发展方式,不是某种中央政权进行决议的结果

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Fine. But there are reasons to study development even if you are not interested in children because sometimes developmental studies and developmental data and developmental science can inform questions about adults.

没关系,但即使你对儿童不感兴趣,却依然有很多原因促使你去研究发展,因为发展的研究,数据以及科学,有时可以解释成人的问题

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