生物学家们长期认为,两类鳍脚亚目动物,即海狮和海象,都是从一种陆地上的类似于熊的动物繁衍而来的。
Biologists have long maintained that two groups of pinnipeds, sea lions and walruses, are descended from response to similar environmental pressures.
哺乳动物繁衍后代时不是卵生,而是胎生。
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And what it does is--one way to reproduce is to occupy other animals and manipulate their bodies so as to expel it.
它繁衍的方式是,占据其他动物并操纵他们的身体,以驱逐他们。
Along these lines, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins took the general step of suggesting that animals are the vehicles through which genes exploit to reproduce.
按此种方法,进化论生物学家理查德·道金斯,采取常规方式建议到动物是工具,可被用于繁衍基因。
And so, that simple fact is why we would expect animals to care for their children, because children are the means through which genes replicate.
所以,简单的事实是,我们为什么期待动物关心后代,因为后代是基因繁衍的方式。
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