It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp. 这样一种技巧，我们才刚刚开始掌握。 We have arrived at this position of eminence in a stunningly short time. 在不太长的一段时间里，我们已经达到了一个优越的位置。...
In 1979, in the book The Sinking Ark, the author Norman Myers suggested that human activities were causing about two extinctions a week on the planet. 1979年，在《快要沉没的方舟》一书里，作者诺曼.迈尔斯认为人类活动每周导...
Then in 1939, by happy coincidence two separate birding enthusiasts, in widely separated locations, came across lone survivors just two days apart. 接着，1939年，有两个狂热的鸟类爱好者仅仅在相隔两天的时间里， They both sho...
Remarkably, Rothschild's collecting efforts were neither the most extensive nor the most generously funded of the nineteenth century. 不可思议的是，在19世纪，无论从规模还是从投资方面来讲，罗特希尔德的标本收集都不是...
According to the University of Chicago paleontologist David Raup, 根据芝加哥大学古生物学家戴维.诺普的观点， the background rate of extinction on Earth throughout biological history has been one species lost every four years on ave...
that if you wished to find all the dodos in a vicinity you had only to catch one and set it to squawking, 要是你想找到附近的所有渡渡鸟，你只要抓住其中的一只，并且让它叫个不停， and all the others would waddle along...
30 GOOD-BYE 第三十章 一个星球，一次实验 In the early 1680s, at just about the time that Edmond Halley and his friends Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke 17世纪80年代初，差不多就在埃德蒙.哈雷和他的朋友克里斯托弗.雷...
Each was about ten kilometers, or six miles, awaya long way to carry an armload of stone. 两座山都在大约10公里以外要用手臂抱着把石头搬到这里，实在是一段不近的距离。 Why the early Olorgesailie people went to such tr...
An academic writing in Nature had noted how a paleontologist, asked by a colleague whether he thought an old skull was varnished or not, 一位学者在《自然》杂志撰文说，有一位古生物学家的同事问那位古生物学家一个古人颅...
But all of this overlooked the more or less infinite capacity for surprise offered by the ancient Mungo people of western New South Wales. 但是，在发生这一切的过程中，人们没有想到新南威尔士州西部的古蒙戈人在某种程度...
