The idea that our mental terrain decides what information survives in our heads and what gets killed off finds a parallel with a venerable biological theory: Darwin's theory of natural selection.

我们的心理地形决定了什么信息能留在我们大脑里同时什么需要剔除，这个学说和一个已经被广为接受的生物理论很近似：达尔文的自然选择理论。

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They will be selected out by competition; the analogy is to natural selection in biological evolution.

他们会被竞争所淘汰；如同生物进化中的自然选择。

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Wrangham and Kahlenberg agree that "biological predilection" appears to be involved in both toy selection and forms of play among human and non-human primate males and females.

拉汉姆和Kahlenberg同意这个“生物偏爱”，它涉及到了对玩偶的选择和玩耍的形式在人类之间和非人类的灵长类动物的雄性与雌性之间的不同。

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This uses a process of randomisation and trial-and-error (akin to mutation and selection in biological evolution) to search the vast number of possible microstructures to find the most suitable design for each subsection.

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Darwin's observation that species evolve over the course of generations through the natural selection of favourable traits has become a central pillar of biological thinking and has influenced many other fields of scientific endeavour.

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