Heredity is the set of characteristics that you inherit from your parents and ancestors.

遗传是指我从父母和先那里继承下来一整套个性特征。

Natural selection rewarded our ancestors for collaboration, and for forming connections with each other.

物竞天择中，我先互相合作，并且建立彼此关系而存活下来。

After all, we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors.

毕竟，地球并不是我继承先遗产。

Accordingly, their scaly ancestors infest the island's rivers and are the subjects of special veneration.

所以。他带鳞甲岛上河流中大量繁殖，是人特殊尊敬对象。

He constantly referred to his ancestors, the Romanovs.

他时常地谈到他先 罗曼诺夫。

They raised the ghost of a seagoing civilisation, a clear ancestor of our own with its clamour and glamour, its commercial pulse.

它现了当时航海文明景象，这文明是我现代航海文明始，迷人、喧闹，商业繁华。

They are the most precious intangible cultural heritage that we have carried down from our ancestors.

这些都是我物质文化遗产，这些都是我先所流传下来。

In this manner had fought forgotten ancestors.

被遗忘了先就是以这种方式战斗。

Now go back to the Cretaceous Period and look at our tiny, fuzzball ancestors.

人类眼光不足以让我看出它有多么特别再回到寒武纪时期。

When the competitive environment pushed our ancestors to achieve that potential, they could in turn afford more education.

当竞争环境推动我先实现这一潜力，他又可以获得更多教育机会。

Two flights carrying 450 people have arrived in Tel Aviv. The Falash Mura, a community whose ancestors converted from Judaism to Christianity under duress a century ago, but who've retained some Jewish customs.

两架搭载着450人航班抵达特拉维夫。一个世纪以前，“法拉沙人”(Falash Mura)先迫于压力从犹太教徒改为基督徒，但是还保留着一些犹太习俗。

She says her ancestors were from Britain.

她说她先来自英国。

The French bulldogs' ancestors were originally bred to bait bulls in the ring.

法国斗牛犬先，最初是被驯养，用来斗牛场上激怒公牛。

It's hard to know exactly why we evolved to be better at digesting theobromine, but it might be because alkaloids mostly come from plants, and our ancestors ate a lot more plants than early cats or dogs did.

我很难确切了解为什么我身体会进化成能较容易消化可可碱，有可能是因为生物碱大部分都来自植物，而我先吃植物比以前猫和狗所吃植物多很多。

You, as representatives of the American people, have before you the glorious opportunity of carrying on the pioneer work of your ancestors, beyond the frontiers of physical and geographical limitations.

诸君为美国人民之代表，目前有一光荣机会，使汝先之开国工作，发扬光大，超越物体与地理限制之疆界。

My ancestor was a preacher traveling around the countryside.

我先是游历于乡村牧师。

The discovery of a new species of human ancestor Homo Naledi has just been announced.

一种新人类先纳莱迪人刚宣布被发现了。

Northup has many descendants, who gathered together in Saratoga Springs on July 24,1999, for a tribute to their ancestor.

Northup有很多后人，他1999年7月24日聚集了Saratoga Springs纪念他先。

But like their colonial ancestors, Americans are essentially an optimistic people.

但是像殖民时期先一样，美国人是常乐观人民。

In thinking about the answer to this question, I was reminded of Musar sometimes called Mussar in English, a 19th-century Jewish movement that came out of Lithuania, very close to where my ancestors were rabbis.

思考这个问题答案时，我想起了穆萨，英语中有时也被称为 Mussar，这是 19 世纪犹太运动，源于立陶宛，常接近我先拉比（犹太教领袖）地方。