One difficulty is that almost all of what is called behavioral science continues to trace behavior to states of mind, feelings, traits of character, human nature, and so on.

难题之一在于所谓行为科几乎全都依然从心态、情感、性格特征、人性等方面去寻找行为。

Phenotype meaning things like hair texture, facial features and skin tone.

表现型指是头发纹理、面部特征和肤色等。

Race was a large focus of both “scientific” and social categorization in the 19th century, determining everything from legal status to the assignment of assumed traits like intellectual capabilities or physical endurance.

在19世纪，“race”是“科”和社会分类一大焦点，它决定了一切，从法律地位到智力或身体耐力等假定特征分配。

This can come in the form of race, religion, physical traits, gender.

这可以是来自于种族、信仰、生理特征、性别等形式。

Features like larger tongues, thicker necks, and smaller jaws can make people more susceptible.

舌头较大、脖子较粗，下颚较小等特征会让人比较容易受此病症影响。

These sheets are more than just a resume – they include information like pricing, location, height, characters they can accurately portray, skills, and personality traits.

这些表格不是简历——其中还包括价格、地点、身高、能够准确扮演角色、技能和性格特征等信息。

We found that visual features like color and brightness could not explain the effect.

我们发现，颜色和亮度等视觉特征无法解释为什么导致这种效应。

Such children are essentially inventing rough but rich languages out of nothing, with features such as fixed word order and hierarchical grammatical structures much like those in fully fledged languages.

从本质上说，这些儿童从无到有地发明了粗糙但丰富语言，其中有固定词序和层级语法结构等特征，这些特征与完全成熟语言非常相似。

Basic genetics tells us that only DNA gets passed along to offspring; characteristics like memories, scars, or giant muscles, can't get passed on since acquiring them doesn't alter the genetic code.

经典遗传我们只有 DNA 可以遗传给下一代，而记忆、疤痕或者强健肌肉等特征则不能，因为这些不能改变遗传密码。

The researchers also found that participants' brain activity tracked the acoustic features of the music, like tempo and pitch, far more closely when it was played live.

研究人员还发现，受试者大脑活动追踪音乐节奏和音调等声特征，在现场播放时要紧密得多。

It will allow website users to log in securely to their online accounts using a digital device, biometrics such as fingerprints and facial recognition or USB security keys.

该系统能够让网络用户使用一种数字设备，如指纹、面部识别或USB安全钥匙等生物特征识别安全登录他们网上账号。

We find that general intelligence has a substantial genetic component, a little bit less than the sum of the physical traits like height and weight, and brainwaves.

我们发现，一般智力有很大一部分是由基因决定，比身高、体重和脑电波等生理特征总和要少一点。

So venous blood accumulates downward from the obstruction, causing features like ascites, esophageal varices and bleeding, Caput Medusae, diminished liver function and an enlarged spleen.

因此静脉血从阻塞处向下累积，引起诸如腹水、食管静脉曲张和出血、海蛇头、肝功能下降和脾脏肿大等特征。

This is why most closely watched gauges, including the Halifax and Nationwide indices, adjust transactions for characteristics such as the number of bedrooms.

这就是为什么最受关注指标，包括哈利法克斯指数和全国指数，会据卧室数量等特征来调整交易。

The science of ice is maddening, and features phenomena such as the Mpemba effect, in which hot water appears to freeze faster than cold.

有关冰科令人发狂，它具备姆潘巴效应等特征，即热水似乎比冷水更易结冰。

The images turned into this video reveal features like continental regions plains and plateaus along with a halo of oxygen surrounding the planet.

组成这段视频图像揭示了大陆地区、平原和高原等特征，以及围绕行星氧气光环。

In some kinds of animal societies, your place in the dominance hierarchy can be explained by physical attributes like body size.

在某些动物社会中，你在权力等级中地位可由体型等身体特征来决定。

We make sure they're otherwise similar by matching cases and controls based on characteristics like age, sex, and race.

我们通过据年龄、性别和种族等特征匹配病例和对照组，并确保它们在其他方面是相似。

Deserts are environments with land features like sand or dry ground and extreme temperatures of hot and cold.

沙漠是指具有沙子或干燥地面等地面特征，以及极端高温和寒冷环境。

But they've focused primarily on characteristics like a song artist and genre, as well as the music itself.

但它们重点主要放在歌手和歌曲流派等特征——当然也放在音乐本身上。