万物简史:简介3

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因为原著为美国人所写,单词采用美式拼法,不抄全文,不写各句标号。

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Hints: protoplasmal primordial atomic globule Gilbert and Sullivan

So thank goodness for atoms. But the fact that you have atoms and that they assemble in such a willing manner is only part of what got you here.[---1---] Survival on Earth is a surprisingly tricky business. Of the billions and billions of species of living thing that have existed since the dawn of time, most-99.99%-are no longer around. Life on Earth, you see, is not only brief but dismayingly tenuous. [---2---]

[---3---] You must be prepared to change everything about yourself-shape, size, color, species affiliation, everything-and to do so repeatedly. That's much easier said than done, because the process of change is random. [---4---] So at various periods over the last 3.8 billion years you have abhorred oxygen and then doted on it, grown fins and limbs and jaunty sails, laid eggs, flicked the air with a forked tongue, been sleek, been furry, lived underground, lived in trees, been as big as a deer and as small as a mouse, and a million things more. The tiniest deviation from any of these evolutionary shifts, and you might now be licking algae from cave walls or lolling walrus-like on some stony shore or disgorging air through a blowhole in the top of your head before diving 60 feet for a mouthful of delicious sandworms.

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