2008年7月1日是达尔文自然选择理论诞生150周年纪念日，该理论首次发现了自然选择是生物进化的主要推动力量。

July 1, 2008, is the 150th anniversary of the first announcement of his discovery of natural selection, the main driving force of evolution. Since 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth Feb.

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查尔斯·达尔文是第一个描述自然选择在物种形成中的作用的人，他描写了物种形成的机制。

Charles Darwin, the first to describe the role of natural selection in speciation, wrote about the mechanisms of speciation.

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正如查尔斯·达尔文（Charles Darwin）所观察到的那样，只要有一种基因组成的个体比其他个体更善于繁殖，自然选择就会起作用。

As Charles Darwin observed, natural selection operates whenever individuals of one genetic composition are better at reproducing than that of others.

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That is, if they exist through Darwinian natural selection, ? to what extent can we ever get rid of them?

如果性别差异存在于,达尔文所说的自然选择当中，我们可以消除性别差异吗？

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And it might occur to some of you that this seems to be an analogy with the Darwinian theory of natural selection where there's a random assortment of random mutations.

也许你们之中会有人觉得,这和达尔文的自然选择理论,看上去很相似,自然选择就是随机突变的随机分配。

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In the aftermath of Darwin in particular, our understanding of natural selection, our understanding of genetic hard-wiring and other factors, makes us begin to wonder in what sense we can consider ourselves, each of us, to be autonomous subjects.

特别是继达尔文之后，我们对于自然选择，基因和其他因素的理解，让我们开始思考在哪种意义上我们每个人，可以把自己视为有自主性的主体。

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