蝙蝠并不是唯一一种现在面临这一难题的生物。
Bats are not the only creatures to face this difficulty today.
他们发明了一种叫做 E-Kaia 的小型生物电路。
Their invention is a small biological circuit they call E-Kaia.
那就是章鱼，一种生活在海里的不寻常的生物。
That's the octopus, one of the unusual creatures that live in the sea.
其中最特别的是一种叫管虫的生物。
The most distinctive of these was something called the tube worm.
它是一种构建微生物多拷贝蛋白质生产细胞的方法。
It is a method of constructing a microbial multicopy protein production cell.
你会如何诱使这样一种大洋生物透露它的秘密？
How do you seduce an open ocean creature like that to spill its secrets?
但生物学家也在人类身上看到了一种乐于助人的本性。
But the biologists also see in humans a natural willingness to help.
这个结构非常有趣，它不是生物，也不是一种单一的科学。
And this structure is interesting, it's not biology, it's not a single science.
你知道这个世界上有一种叫做双头白化蛇的生物吗？
Have you ever known there are such creatures as an albino two-headed snake?
草海龙是一种诡异但却奇妙而色彩斑斓的海底生物。
The Weedy Sea Dragon is a weird, wonderful and colorful underwater creature.
这两种不同类的生物会如何对待彼此呢？
它会告诉你任意两种生物在时间长河里的亲密程度。
And it tells you how closely related any two organisms are over time.
我们培养了一种和我们所知的生命完全不同的微生物。
We have a microbe doing something different than life as we know it.
“我们人类有着强烈的社会属性，”她说，“我们的生物体是一种社会单元。”
"We are an intensely social species," she said. "Our very biology is a social one."
另一种方法是单一的生物，运用其智慧避免灾难。
The other is for a single organism to use its intelligence to avoid catastrophe.
癌症的形成过程就是一种新的寄生物种的进化过程。
The formation of cancers is really the evolution of a new parasitic species.
显然，人类是动物，并且仅仅是演化而来另一种的生物。
Obviously humans are animals, and just another creature of evolution.
因为指猴是你在自然界能够发现的最独特的一种生物。
The aye-aye is one of the most unique creatures you'll ever find in nature.
每一种有意识的生物都处于进化和自我了解中。
Every conscious being is in the process of developing and understanding itself all the time.
细胞是为了增殖而存在，而它们也精于此道，甚至增殖是生物活着的一种证明。
THE purpose of cells is to increase and multiply. That is what they do best.
时至今日，这两种体型中等的动物始终被认为是同一种生物。
Until now, the two midsize animals were thought to be the same species.
这里有一种生物性的解释。
没有一种生物所受到的赞美和厌恶会超过花园里常见的蜗牛了。
No creature has received morepraise and abuse than the common garden snail.
事实上，它是一种非常有用的小生物。
人们问，生物柴油是不是一种危险的燃油。
没有一种生物所受到的赞美和厌恶会超过花园里常见的蜗牛了。
No creature has received more praise and abuse than the common garden snail.
在那里，你发现了一种像地球人一样有智力的生物，以及一种完整的文化。
You arrive on Gopher-X and find a whole civilization of life forms.
在那里，你发现了一种像地球人一样有智力的生物，以及一种完整的文化。
You arrive on Gopher-X and find a whole civilization of life forms.
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