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Back here are specimens collected by Joseph Banks in Australia, 这里放着约瑟夫班克斯在澳大利亚采集的标本， Alexander von Humboldt in Amazonia, Darwin on the Beagle voyage, and much else that is either very rare or historically im

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The Burgess Shale included a range of disparity in anatomical designs never again equaled, 布尔吉斯页岩化石所包含的横剖面的花色范围是独一无一的， and not matched today by all the creatures in the world's oceans, Gould wrote

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If you could fly backwards into the past at the rate of one year per second, 要是你能以每秒钟一年的速度飞回到过去， it would take you about half an hour to reach the time of Christ, and a little over three weeks to get back to the

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Even now, as Fortey says, it can be startling to go to the right formation of rocks 福泰说，即使现在，要是你来到合适的岩石结构， and to work your way upward through the eons finding no visible life at all, 一个又一个漫长的

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In 1969, in an attempt to bring some order to the growing inadequacies of classification, 1969年，为了整理一下越来越显得不足的分类法， an ecologist from Cornell University named R. H. Whittaker unveiled in the journal Science a pr

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Life emerged so swiftly, in fact, that some authorities think it must have had helpperhaps a good deal of help. 实际上，生命出现得太快，有的权威人士认为肯定有什么东西帮了忙也许是帮了大忙。 The idea that earthly l

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Proteins are what you get when you string amino acids together, and we need a lot of them. 你把氨基酸串在一起，就得到了蛋白质。我们需要大量的蛋白质。 No one really knows, but there may be as many as a million types of pro

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So who is making it? We arethat is to say, many of our large corporations are still making it at their plants overseas. It will not be banned in Third World countries until 2010. 那么，是谁在生产含氯氟烃？是我们──那就是说，许多

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By counting back through these layers and measuring the amount of lead in each, he could work out global lead concentrations at any time for hundreds, or even thousands, of years. The notion became the foundation of ice core studies, on which much mo

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His main work done, Patterson now turned his attention to the nagging question of all that lead in the atmosphere. He was astounded to find that what little was known about the effects of lead on humans was almost invariably wrong or misleadingand no

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With his pipe, genially self-effacing manner, and electrified hair, Einstein was too splendid a figure to remain permanently obscure, 爱因斯坦常手拿烟斗，和蔼可亲，不爱露面，一头乱发，真是个非凡人物。这样的人物不可

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This was more than a little odd, for Hubbles life was filled from an early age with a level of distinction that was at times almost ludicrously golden. At a single high school track meet in 1906, he won the pole vault, shot put, discus, hammer throw,

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Hubble's luck was to come along soon after an ingenious woman named Henrietta Swan Leavitt had figured out a way to do so. Leavitt worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a computer, as they were known. Computers spent their lives studying photo

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Jet streams, usually located about 30,000 to 35,000 feet up, can bowl along at up to 180 miles an hour and vastly influence weather systems over whole continents, yet their existence wasn't suspected until pilots began to fly into them during the Sec

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When you look at a lake, you are looking at a collection of molecules that have been there on average for about a decade. 要是你望一眼湖水，你看到的是一大堆分子，它们在那里平均已达10年之久。 In the ocean the residence

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The temperature six miles up can be -70 degrees Fahrenheit, and you would need, or at least very much appreciate, supplementary oxygen. 10公里高空的温度会降至零下57摄氏度，你需要补充氧气，至少很希望这么做。 After you

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Nor does abundance necessarily relate to importance. 风度与重要程度也不一定有关系。 Carbon is only the fifteenth most common element, accounting for a very modest 0.048 percent of Earth's crust, but we would be lost without it. 碳只居