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We wandered through a confusion of departments where people sat at large tables doing intent, 我们漫步穿过一个又一个部门，只见人们坐在大桌子跟前， investigative things with arthropods and palm fronds and boxes of yellowed bo

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Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, ever becomes fossilized. 据认为，在10亿根骨头当中，只有大约l根能变成化石。 If that is so, it means that the complete fossil legacy of all the Americans alive todaythat's 270 mill

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21 Life Goes On 第二十一章 生命在前进 It isn't easy to become a fossil. 要变成化石可不容易。 The fate of nearly all living organismsover 99.9 percent of themis to compost down to nothingness. 几乎所有的生物其中的99.9%以上

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Mitochondria manipulate oxygen in a way that liberates energy from foodstuffs. 线粒体支配着氧，释放食物中的能量。 Without this niftily facilitating trick, life on Earth today would be nothing more than a sludge of simple microbes. 没有

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We are all the result of a single genetic trick handed down from generation to generation nearly four billion years, 我们都是同一遗传戏法的结果。那种戏法一代一代地传下来，经历了差不多40亿年， to such an extent that

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As one commentator has put it, fleeing would mean selecting a slow death over a quick one. 有一位评论家说，逃跑意味着在慢死和快死之中选择慢死。 The death toll would be very little affected by any plausible relocation effort,

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