Twilight combined with the scenery of Egdon Heath to evolve a thing majestic without severity, impressive without showiness, emphatic in its admonitions, grand in its simplicity.

苍茫暮色与埃格敦荒原的景物结合起来，一种景象，庄重而严峻，动人而艳丽，它的警诫缓慢有力，它的简朴宏大壮观。

So insects evolved to be water repellent. For one their exoskeleton is covered with a thin layer of wax just like a car.

所以昆虫防水功能，其之一是它们的外骨骼包覆着一层薄薄的蜡，就像车子。

Other kinds of head hair evolved as humans moved to different places.

人类移居同的地方时，也同类型的头发。

And on this dating site that I have created, called Chemistry.com, I ask you first a series of questions to see to what degree you express these chemicals, and I'm watching who chooses who to love.

让人类了四种非常普遍的人格类型。所以我在Mating.com上创建了一个子站：Chemistry.com。第一部分的问题，用来确认上述四种物质在你的大脑是如何显现性状的。

It's nature's way of helping them make a quick getaway if danger comes running.

这是物种的生存本领，一旦遭遇危险，它们可以立刻动身逃跑。

Isolated communities may evolve from millions of years in relative peace.

与世隔绝的动物群落可能在数百万了相对稳定的生态。

The birds of paradise have evolved not only elaborate plumage, but incredible dances to go along with them where they have medallions of colored feathers and they have elaborate wing feathers where they thrust them up behind them.

天堂的鸟仅精致的羽毛，还有精彩的舞蹈，它们会露大块的彩色羽毛，而且它们身后还有繁复的翅羽。

There was, however, gradually evolved from its transformation scenes a less extravagant episode, in which the heath dimly appeared behind the general brilliancy of the action.

但是，梦境渐渐转变，一个那么激动的场面，在灿烂变的场景背后，隐隐绰绰现了荒原。

If we see this ancient shrimp as modern, then, Strausfeld asks, who was the ancestor that gave rise to its sophisticated and very elaborate set of organs?

Strausfeld问，如果我们将这种古老虾类视作现代生物，那么是哪个祖先最早复杂而精巧的一套器官呢？

We have evolved a redundancy in our speech specifically that allows us to hear speech in the presence of natural sound.

我们在言语了一种冗余性，让我们在有大自然声音的情况下还能听到言语。

Well, the secret of the Sundarbans, lies in beautiful relationships that have evolved between the most unlikely species — including the tiger.

松达班的秘密就在于，在两个最可能的物种之间——其之一是老虎，已经了美妙的联系。

Roses evolved their aromas millions of years before humans even existed on this planet, mostly to speak to bumblebees and other insects.

早在人类现在地球上的数百万前，玫瑰就了香气，主要是为了与熊蜂及其他昆虫“交流”。

Some early egg-laying species gradually led to the creation of the proto-chicken which laid proto-chicken eggs.

某些早期的卵生物种逐渐原型鸡，而原型鸡产下原型蛋。

Although sun bears mostly live alone, scientists recently discovered they have developed a surprising social skill.

尽管马来熊大多数时间都独自生活，但是科学家最近发现，它们了一种惊人的社交技巧。

Cephalopods may have evolved complex brains long before our vertebrate relatives.

头足类或许比我们的脊椎动物近亲更早复杂的脑部。

Darwin also believed carnivorous plants evolved because they grew in nutrient poor soil.

达尔文还提，食肉植物之所以捕食昆虫的特性，是因为它们生长的土壤养分匮乏。

The tree has evolved to produce these hollow thorns, and they are the perfect structures for the ants to make their colonies inside.

这种树已经了空的荆棘，对于蚂蚁来说，这是把它们用来当做自己领地的完美结构。

There are over 1,700 cichlid species, many almost identical save for their uniquely adapted jaws which have evolved to eat crustaceans, mollusks, worms, algae, plankton, and even the scales of other fish.

其种类超过一千七百种，许多种类几乎一模一样，但为了吃甲壳动物、软体动物、虫类、藻类、浮游生物甚至其他鱼类的鳞片而同的颔。

While oxygen molecules have been around as long as Earth's oceans, oxygen gas didn't appear until ocean-dwelling microorganisms evolved to produce it.

虽然地球有海洋的时候就有氧分子了，但要到海洋的微生物生产氧气的能力之后才有氧气现。

Across mammalian species, hairs have been modified for numerous purposes, ranging from the soft fluff covering rabbits to the rigid quills protecting porcupines.

哺乳动物，毛发已多种用途，从覆盖兔子的柔软绒毛到保护豪猪的硬刺。