This ancestor was the result of a merging: one cell swallowed, imperfectly, another cell.

这位始祖是细胞合并的结果。

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Research on Ardi suggests that this ancestor didn't look nearly as much like a modern chimpanzee as had been previously suspected.

研究告诉我们，我们的这个祖先“阿蒂”并不像先前所预测那样与现代黑猩猩长得很像。

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This method tells you all information you need to know: whether one node is descendant of an ancestor of the other, whether it is before or after, and so on.

这个方法告诉您所有想知道的信息：一个节点是否是另一个节点的祖先的后代，它是在前面还是后面呢，等等。

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We can say today that this university is a direct ancestor of the platonic republic of Plato's Academy.

我们可以说现今这间大学的直系原型,即是，“柏拉图学院“的,柏拉图式理想国。

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Aristotle is considered the ancestor of the varying sorts of thought about form, and it's this move, this move that he makes in the Poetics, that engenders this possibility.

亚里士多德称得上是对形式的多元思考之父,正是他所做的，和在《诗学》书中所提到的，使这一切成为可能。

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The ancestor of polo, this traditional game of horsemen is played with a dead goat rather than a ball.

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Given that Crassicorophium and barnacles are both crustaceans, albeit ones whose common ancestor lived 100m years ago, that suggests a single origin for the ability to make this type of goo.

ECONOMIST: A species of crustacean makes silk underwater