他们正在研究鸟类寻找食物的方式是否会给它们带来任何可能的进化优势。
They're looking into whether the birds' way of searching for food gives them any possible evolutionary advantage.
如果脑子比较小的古猿不是工具制造者，那他们直立行走的进化优势是什么？
If the small-brained australopithecines were not toolmakers, what evolutionary advantage did they gain by walking upright?
因此，也许有一种进化优势能请人帮你生育。
Y: so there might be an evolutionary advantage to having someone help you give birth. D: some.
沮丧这种情绪作为进化优势的另一个原因是：它赋予你洞察力。
Depression is evolutionarily advantageous for another reason it gives you insight.
如果大脑能够直接解读其他大脑，必然会有一个强大的进化优势。
If, somehow, brains could read other brains directly, there would indeed be a very strong evolutionary advantage to it.
科学家认为，脑部这种古老的奖励机制在尝试未知事物方面有进化优势。
Scientists believe the existence of this age-old reward mechanism indicates there is an evolutionary advantage in sampling the unknown.
研究人员想知道：品尝特定化学物质的能力是否令我们具有进化优势。
Researchers have wondered whether being able to taste certain chemicals puts us at an evolutionary advantage.
过去研究认为，女性之所以生理上倾向于更喜欢粉红和其他亮色，是因为这对寻找水果有进化优势。
Past research has made a case, in terms of the evolutionary advantage of finding fruit, for why females might be biologically predisposed to prefer pink and other bright colours.
现在你认为这么说很可笑，这些基因可能既不美，也不高智能。但却可能是有进化优势的基因。
Now you think that is facetious. It may not be beauty and intelligence but it may be something else that has an evolutionary advantage.
当食物稀缺的时候，愿意远行去寻找食物来填报肚子的勇敢的动物就拥有比较明显的进化优势。
When food was scarce, brave animals willing to travel to fill their bellies would have had an obvious evolutionary advantage.
略微的突变即可使微生物具有抵抗力，使药物完全失去杀伤力，这种突变是一个进化优势，大大加快了耐药性的产生。
Slight mutations that allow a microorganism to resist the full killing power of a medicine are an evolutionary advantage that greatly expedites the development of drug resistance.
虽然所有的动物都有着这种进化优势，但是唯独我们人类能创作交响乐、做字谜游戏、雕塑时刻，以致描绘时空。
But the same advantage would apply to all species, and yet we alone compose symphonies and crossword puzzles, carve stone into statues, map time and space.
也有可能在高新技术环境下拥有这种能力的人会因此受到奖励，若这种这种新能力是一种真正的进化优势那么它值得广泛学习。
Or the high-tech environment that rewards multi-tasking is too new for the ability to have widely propagated, if there’s a true evolutionary advantage to having it.
有60多种哺乳动物--比如说著名的飞天鼠--可以熟练的在树丛间滑翔。很酷吧！但是它们的进化优势是什么呢？
More than 60 mammal species—like the famous flying squirrel—have adapted the ability to sail from tree to tree. Thrilling, yes. But what's the evolutionary advantage?
由于所有的本能行为都有进化优势，否则就不会被留传下来了达百万年之久，很可能吃些脏东西也能帮助我们作为一个物种生存下来。
Since all instinctive behaviors have an evolutionary advantage or they would not have been retained for millions of years, chances are that this one too has helped us survive as a species.
这些返祖性状提供了优势，并在种群中传播，有效地逆转了进化。
These atavistic traits provided an advantage and spread through the population, effectively reversing evolution.
但是这种结合了不对称、解剖学和偶然性的进化机制并不能提供一个充分的解释来说明为什么右利手应该成为优势。
But this evolutionary mechanism combining dissymmetry, anatomy, and chance does not provide an adequate explanation of why right-handedness should have become predominant.
这种默认模式可能通过我们狩猎和聚会时警告危险的出现来带给我们一种进化的优势。
This default mode probably gave us an evolutionary advantage by making us alert to dangers while we were hunting and gathering.
合作和社会性学习的优势推动了早期的人类部落走向了另外一条进化的道路。
The advantages of cooperation and social learning then propelled the incipient human groups along a different evolutionary path.
阅读不是一种自然而然的行为；我们读书和使用电脑比起来，并没有更多的进化方面的优势。
Reading is an unnatural act; we are no more evolved to read books than we are to use computers.
它的优势看起来和受质疑的实验目标的进化显著性相关。
Its strength seems to relate to the evolutionary salience of the item in question.
优势之一,从进化角度看心理,迫使我们从科学角度,看待我们认为理所当然的东西。
One of the advantages of an evolutionary perspective on the mind is that it forces us to look scientifically at what we would otherwise take for granted.
像斯密改善产品设计论一样，这些进化已经不再使单个的老鹰具有相对优势，但它们的最终结果却使得老鹰作为一个物种而变得更有生命力。
Like Smith's product design improvements, these mutations no longer confer relative advantage to individual hawks, but their ultimate effect was to make hawks more effective as a species.
尽管第一个长出木本的植物体积很小，但接下来的其他植物种群便能够因此迅速从木本结构优势种获利，仅仅几百万年的时间，其中一些具有木本的植物便进化得像现在的树一样了。
Although the first plants sporting wood were small, subsequent species quickly took advantage of wood's structural strength: in just a few million years, some had attained treelike stature.
研究人员大卫卡里尔称，从进化角度来讲，这一优势使得高个男人对女人更有用。
In evolutionary terms, that makes them more useful for women, said researcher David Carrier。
麦高文和马兹卢夫博士相信，这种能力赋予了乌鸦和它的弟兄们进化的优势。
Dr. McGowan and Dr. Marzluff believe that this ability gives crows and their brethren an evolutionary edge.
他补充说，我们能够部分地避免发生此类冲突，这使得我们在进化方面占了优势。
He adds that our ability to partially avoid such conflict could have given us an evolutionary edge.
其它四次大灭绝对生物进化产生了巨大的影响，动物因此逐渐处于优势地位，但是，奥陶纪末期大灭绝发生前后，处于支配地位的动物物种没有发生变化。
Although the four other Big Five extinction events led to huge changes in which animals rose to prominence, the same animals that dominated before the end-Ordovician dominated afterward.
其它四次大灭绝对生物进化产生了巨大的影响，动物因此逐渐处于优势地位，但是，奥陶纪末期大灭绝发生前后，处于支配地位的动物物种没有发生变化。
Although the four other Big Five extinction events led to huge changes in which animals rose to prominence, the same animals that dominated before the end-Ordovician dominated afterward.
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