In other words, throwbacks are possible, but only to the relatively recent evolutionary past.

换句话说，倒退是可能的，但只可能发生在相对较近的进化史上。

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It was apparent that the glaciation occurred in the relatively recent past because the drift was soft, like freshly deposited sediment.

很明显冰川作用就发生在相对不远的过去，因为漂流物很软，像新鲜的沉积物。

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This is not because God created them to poke fun at us; it is because humans and chimps are descended from the same relatively recent primitive ape.

这并不是因为上帝创造它们来嘲笑我们；而是因为人类和黑猩猩都是同一个比较近期的原始猿人的后裔。

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His comments reflected what other officials have said that ending the F-22 program is just one part of the effort to shift the focus of U.S.defenses away from what they see as the relatively remote possibility of a war with a major power and toward the types of smaller-scale conflicts of recent years.

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It's happened over the course of millions of years of human evolution, but it's happened also in a relatively recent time frame when we think about the American diet and what people are eating, but also the world diet of course.

它们发生在人类数百万年的演化历程中,在近现代,当我们考虑美国人的食谱,当然也包括全世界的食谱,同样在发生着这些变革

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But if you've looked at more recent or if you've looked at friends who relatively recently signed ID up for Facebook, their profile IDs which you sometimes see in the URL are actually pretty long and that's because I believe at some point they did transition longlong to 64-bit values which tend to be called long longs.

但是如果你看过最近的【听不见】,如果你访问了最近在Facebook上留言的朋友,你会发现，可以从URL上看到他们的配置文件,很长很长，那是因为,可能在某个时间点，他们已经过渡到,64比特了，也就是所谓的。

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And the study is relatively recent, but it did get a lot of attention when it first published.

NPR: Women Of Color Lag Behind In Wealth

Some might assume compulsive shopping is relatively recent -- perhaps a product of Madison Avenue.

CNN: The dark side of shopping

The idea that it is possible, let alone desirable, to allow multiple citizenship is relatively recent.

ECONOMIST: Dual citizenship