As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

  • -- Ernst Mayr 迈尔

结果,遗传学家将进化简单地描述为种群中基因频率的变化,完全忽略了进化由两种同时存在但又截然不同的适应和多样化现象组成的事实。

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When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

当你还是个孩子的时候,你看不到颜色,我从来没有想过我的朋友是黑人。直到我十几岁开始尝试说唱,这才成为一个问题。

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

只有保护、可持续发展和保护世界资源,我们才能作为一个人口生存下去。

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

我是一个真正的火腿。我喜欢观众。我更擅长和观众打交道。事实上,没有了它,我已经死了。

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

当然,正增长率可以作为人口低于其最佳水平的证据。