Yet their present development is wholly different, not so much because of different people even, but because of the different thoughts that exist in the minds of their inhabitants.

但，它们目前的发展程度完全不样。这倒不因为人民不同，而由于存在于居民头脑中的思想不同。

For me, the most glaring errors I find on the re-read have to do with character motivation (related to character development but not quite the same) .

在我看来，重读过程中最刺眼的错误多半关系到人（与人发展关，但不完全事）。

But it's nothing like microchips, which sometimes confuses us to think that exponential improvement can just show up everywhere.

但芯片的发展完全不样，芯片指数级别的进步随处可见，这有时让我们困惑。

This may sound a little weird because I was reading from my own text here that I typed up first to get the story out, and then it didn't go exactly as planned.

这听起来可能有点奇怪，因为我刚才在念自己事先打好的文字来讲述这个故事，结果事情的发展并不完全如计划那样。

On the view of descent with modification, the origin of rudimentary organs is comparatively simple; and we can understand to a large extent the laws governing their imperfect development.

从变异遗传的观点看， 残迹器官的起源比较简单；我们可以在很大程度上理解支配它们不完全发展的规律。

Ignoring it or condemning it won't kill it off; it simply forces it underground where it lurks undeveloped, prone to latch onto inappropriate targets.

忽视它，或者谴责它并不会将其赶尽杀绝，而只会将它赶到地下，而在这种潜伏状态下，它的发展并不完全，很容易抓住那些不合适的目标。

And well, more than 15 years later, things haven't turned out exactly the way he'd hoped.

而且，十多年后，事情的发展并不完全如他所愿。