Nor were extinctions confined to large animals: small animals, plants, and insects disappeared, presumably not all through human consumption.

灭绝也不仅仅局限于大型动物：小型动物、植物和昆虫的消失，或许不是全部都由于人类的食用而消失。

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Earth is home for all living things—humans, animals, plants, and even tiny microbes.

地球是所有生物的家园——人类、动物、植物、甚至是微小的微生物。

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One half of the world's species of animals, plants and insects live in the Earth's rainforests.

世界上有一半种类的动物、植物和昆虫生活在地球的热带雨林中。

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It is a place where plants and animals from the Caribbean Sea share an ecosystem with native North American species.

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So it was a major change in human evolution where people started raising animals in large groups or started growing plants in large amounts.

这在人来演化史上是个巨大的变革,人类开始大规模饲养动物,或是大量种植农作物

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There's no mention of chicken or beef, In Genesis 1:30, God says that the animals are being given the green plants, the grass and herbs, for food.

并未提到鸡肉或牛肉，在《创世纪》第一章30节中说，动物将拥有,绿色植物和草木作为食物。

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There were animals and plants aplenty, but animals and plants were boring.

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Animals eat these plants, using the carbon to grow, and people eat the plants and animals.

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This says that the "fittest" animals or plants are more likely to survive and reproduce.

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