Superstition is an evolutionary surprise - it makes no sense for organisms to believe a specific action influences the future when it can't.

迷信可谓进化过程给人们带来的惊喜——相信某个特定行为可影响未来(实际并非如此)对有机系统并没有意义。

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5 - Superstition: unusual but reassuring habits make no evolutionary sense; however, ancient humans would have benefited from not dismissing a lion's rustle in the grass as a gust of wind.

5 -迷信：这种奇怪的使人安心的习惯流传至今始终毫无长进，虽然远古人类因不会把狮子在草丛中的声响误听作风声而获益良多。

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To see through this superstition, however, no way works better than by contrasting it with science.

然而要看透迷信，没有任何办法比把它与科学对比更好。

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