From a psychological point then, animals have evolved to be nice to their kin, particularly their children, and particularly in birds and mammals.

从心理学角度看，动物进化趋向于对自己的亲人有益，特别是自己的孩子，以鸟类和哺乳类为代表。

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I'm also including modern-day approaches to computational theory, cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary theory and cultural psychology.

而这些理论则包括了,计算理论,认知神经科学,进化论,以及文化心理学的诸多当代理论

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And it probably--One--There's--Evolutionary psychologists debate the function of why we talk funny to babies.

进化心理学家们在争论,我们为何要以如此好玩的方式来同婴儿讲话

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On Monday we-- I presented an introduction to evolutionary psychology, the looking at psychology from an evolutionary perspective, and trying to make a case and give some examples of how it can help illuminate and illustrate certain aspects of how the mind works.

周一，我们-,我对进化心理学做了介绍，从进化论角度看心理学，试图举一个案例,用一些例子说明它如何帮助阐明,从特定方面阐明我们的大脑怎样工作。

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This is by the famous biologist, D'Arcy Thompson, who wrote the book On Growth and Form, and it's sort of the model of many developmental psychologists and many evolutionary psychologists so I'll end with this: "Everything is the way it is because it got that way."

这是著名的生物学家,达西·汤普森所提出的,他写了一本叫做《论生长和形态》的书,这句话也是许多发展心理学家,和进化心理学的理论模型,所以我用这句话来作为结束,"万物如此,皆因其本"

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