上个月，每日邮报曝光了上一年，有克隆动物后代肉制品流入英国和欧洲食品市场的消息。这些动物均来自三头克隆体。

Last month, the Daily Mail revealed that meat from three clone offspring animals had gone into the food chain in Britain and Europe in the past year.

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我们这些动物的后代同样也遗留下这些痕迹，包括打嗝。

We descendants of these animals were left with vestiges of their history, including the hiccup.

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同样，如果一种植物或动物没有留下任何可以繁殖的后代，它就不能把所有的能量浪费在使自己变得更强壮上，因为这是最可能走向灭绝的方式。

Similarly, a plant or animal cannot squander all its energy on growing a big body if none would be left over for reproduction, for this is the surest way to extinction.

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And so, that simple fact is why we would expect animals to care for their children, because children are the means through which genes replicate.

所以，简单的事实是,我们为什么期待动物关心后代，因为后代是基因繁衍的方式。

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The animal that eats its offspring, those genes are a biological dead end.

吃掉自己后代的动物，他们的基因走进了生物学的死胡同。

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An animal who has evolved a brain that says, "Take care of your offspring" will do much better from a natural selection point of view from an animal who has evolved a brain that says, "Eat your offspring."

逐步形成大脑的动物说，照顾你的后代“,好过从自然选择观点,看问题的动物说，吃掉你的后代“

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