兰登开始快速地播放幻灯片——螺旋形的松果、植物茎上叶子的排列、昆虫身上的分节——所有这些竟然都完全符合黄金分割。
Langdon began racing through slides now-spiraled pinecone petals, leaf arrangement on plant stalks, insect segmentation-all displaying astonishing obedience to the Divine Proportion.
从原生栖息地移走的苏铁,以及从原生栖息地的昆虫身上移走的苏铁,通常是不育的。
Cycads removed from their native habitats—and therefore from insects native to those habitats—are usually infertile.
水蚤有大量之前从未见过的基因,也有一大堆在人类身上就发现的相同基因,其数量是至今科学家所知的昆虫或甲壳类生物中最多的。
Daphnia has a large number of never-before seen genes, as well as a big chunk of the same genes found in humans, the most of any insects or crustacean so far known to scientists.
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