TED演讲:火星现在是什么时间(6)
Again, we didn't start out thinking, Oh, let's invent a language. 我们开始想：对了，我们干脆发明一种语言吧。 It was just very confusing. I remember somebody walked up to me and said, 刚开始真的非常的混乱。我记得有人
TED演讲:火星现在是什么时间(7)
So we have the watches and the language, and you're detecting a theme here, right? 我们有特制的手表和专门的语言，现在你们明白了吧？ So that we don't get confused. But even the Earth daylight could confuse us. 这样我们不再搞
TED演讲:火星现在是什么时间(8)
But of course, it's 2016, so there's an app for that. 当然，到了2016年，已经有手机软件可以替代手表了。 So now instead of the watches, we can also use our phones. 现在我们可以用手机来代替手表。 But the impact on fa
TED演讲:火星现在是什么时间(9)
So we would get off work, and we didn't want to go home and bother our families, 所以我们下班后，并不想回家去打扰家人， and we were hungry, so instead of going locally to eat something, we'd go, 饿的时候，往往就近找些吃的
TED演讲:火星现在是什么时间(10)
Delighted to be here and to talk to you about a subject dear to my heart, which is beauty. 很高兴来到这里与大家探讨我至为关心的一个主题，那就是美。 I do the philosophy of art, aesthetics, actually, for a living. 我研究艺
TED演讲:达顿解释达尔文主义的美的理论(1)
Delighted to be here and to talk to you about a subject dear to my heart, which is beauty. 很高兴来到这里与大家探讨我至为关心的一个主题，那就是美。 I do the philosophy of art, aesthetics, actually, for a living. 我研究艺
TED演讲:达顿解释达尔文主义的美的理论(2)
I can, however, give you at least a taste of what I regard as the most powerful theory of beauty we yet have. 然而，我能给大家体会一下我认为迄今为止我们所有的最有力的关于美的理论。 And we get it not from a philosoph
TED演讲:达顿解释达尔文主义的美的理论(3)
How can we explain this universality? 我们如何解释这一普世性呢？ The best answer lies in trying to reconstruct a Darwinian evolutionary history of our artistic and aesthetic tastes. 最佳答案存在于对我们艺术和审美品味的达
TED演讲:达顿解释达尔文主义的美的理论(4)
The other great principle of evolution is sexual selection, and it operates very differently. 进化的另一大原则是性选择，它运作的方式则大相径庭。 The peacock's magnificent tail is the most famous example of this. 孔雀那华丽
TED演讲:达顿解释达尔文主义的美的理论(5)
Consider briefly an important source of aesthetic pleasure, the magnetic pull of beautiful landscapes. 想一下简单且重要的审美愉悦的来源，美丽风景的吸引力。 People in very different cultures all over the world tend to like a
TED演讲:达顿解释达尔文主义的美的理论(6)
But, someone might argue, that's natural beauty. 但有人也许会争辩，那是自然美。 How about artistic beauty? Isn't that exhaustively cultural? 艺术的美又如何呢？那难道不是纯粹的文化影响吗？ No, I don't think it is.
TED演讲:达顿解释达尔文主义的美的理论(7)
So what were these ancient -- I mean, they're ancient, they're foreign, but they're at the same time somehow familiar. 因此这些古老的--我是说，它们是古老的，异域的，但同时它们也是我们熟悉的。 What were these artifac
TED演讲:达顿解释达尔文主义的美的理论(8)
Except, of course, what's interesting about this is that we can't be sure how that idea was conveyed, 当然，有趣的是，我们无法确认这样的观点是如何传播的， because the Homo erectus that made these objects did not have languag
TED演讲:达顿解释达尔文主义的美的理论(9)
So the next time you pass a jewelry shop window displaying a beautifully cut teardrop-shaped stone, 因此，下次你经过陈列着切成泪滴形的漂亮宝石的珠宝店橱窗时， don't be so sure it's just your culture telling you that that
TED演讲:动画如何帮助科学家检验假说(1)
Take a look at this drawing. Can you tell what it is? 请看这幅图。大家知道这是什么吗？ I'm a molecular biologist by training, and I've seen a lot of these kinds of drawings. 我是一个接受过训练的分子生物学家，因此我已
