Critics may complain that viewing all behaviour through a prism of natural selection is reductive.

批评家们可能会抱怨，透过自然选择的棱镜观看所有的行为显得支离破碎。

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'we are looking at it through a prism of families today which consist of one or two children but if we look back a few years having a lot of children was the norm'.

人们现在这样想是由于现在家庭普遍只有一到两个孩子，而多年以前，一家有很多孩子是再正常不过的事了。

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A spectrum is formed by a ray of light passing through a prism.

一束光通过棱镜就会形成光谱。

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And then he just takes that narrow column of light and he admits it to a prism. And what the prism does is takes a tiny, tiny difference in wavelength and refracts it through a different angle.

他只取了那个窄光柱,然后把它对准一个棱镜，棱镜所做的就是,测量出波长的细微差别,然后从不同的角度测定它的折射度。

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