The authors say it's one of the most complex and rapid patterns of cultural evolution across a region ever observed in a nonhuman species.

作者认为，这是迄今为止在非人类物种领域发现的最复杂、最快捷的跨区域文化演变模式。

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The phylogenetic analysis was conducted by international researchers to determine the origin, evolution, patterns of speciation, and unique features in genome divergence among primate lineages.

这项系统发育研究由国际范围内的研究者共同承担，旨在揭示灵长类的起源、进化、物种形成模式和基因组谱系分化中的独特之处。

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Most scientists today would rather invoke Charles Darwin to explain these patterns as products of evolution. They emerged from myriad possible shapes through natural selection.

而今天的大多数科学家更愿意援引达尔文的理论，把这些图案解释成进化的产物——通过自然选择，从无数可能的形状中浮现出来。

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This is part of his case for thinking that there is a very complex relationship between evolution in particular populations and the patterns we see in the history of life.

ECONOMIST: A master of evolution takes a last long look at Darwin

Mr Thompson said the changes were "a significant evolution of the parliament's working patterns and procedures" and said the parliament "needs to be able to respond more quickly" which the changes would facilitate.

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Evolution has thus fixed it so that appropriate patterns of personality are activated in response to the environment in which they are most likely to cause an individual to thrive.

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