This is a phenomenon known as convergent evolution.

这就是所谓的趋同进化现象。

Let's move on and consider briefly how social media encourages groupthink.

我们继续来简单地了解一下社交媒体是如何促使趋同思维的产生的。

But as money has flooded into private-equity funds, average returns have converged on the returns in public markets.

但随着资金涌入私募股权基金，平均回报已经趋同于公开市场的回报。

Emerson urges authenticity in a world of conformity.

爱默生敦促我们在趋同的保持真实。

Causality, Cognitive Maps, the Convergent Evolution Theory of Intelligence.

的计划 智力的趋同进化理论。

The pattern of swift, uninterrupted decline is now taken as the norm: the UN uses it to project a worldwide convergence towards the replacement rate of fertility (2.1, the rate at which a population stabilises in the long term) .

现在，生育率快速连续的下降趋势已被们视为正常：联国用这种趋势来表示性趋同的口替换率（2.1，口长期稳定时的口增长速率）。

The head of the IASB, Hans Hoogervorst, called the momentum behind them “irreversible” in a statement issued after the gloomy SEC report.

在悲观美国证监会报告发布后，IASB主席汉斯·胡格沃斯特发表声明称，两项准则趋同的势头 “不可逆转”。

Nate Phillips thinks it is good that the people who grow food are beginning to look more like the people who eat it.

内特·菲利普斯认为粮食种植者和食用者的趋同化是件好事。

To be able to see an effect in a matter of years helps turn the convergence from a vision document to actionable policy.

能够在几年时间内看到效果有助于将这种趋同从一纸愿景文件转变为可行动的政策。

And even during their short time in Antarctica, the way the winterers produced certain vowels began to converge, averaging out the resonances.

即使在南极短暂的逗留时间，越冬者某些元音的发音方式就开始趋同，将共振频率拉平。

According to the reading, convergent evolution is when animals living far apart from each other evolve the same features or characteristics.

根据这篇文章，趋同进化是指生活在彼此相距甚远的动物进化出相同的特性或特征。

Convergent thinking is measured by IQ tests, and it involves solving well-defined, rational problems that have one correct answer.

趋同思维由智商测试来衡量，涉及的是解决定义清楚、有唯一正确答案的理性问题。

Groupthink is the subject of today's show.

我们今天节目的主题是趋同思维。

To mark the 20th anniversary of publication, an international Lancet commission put together an investment framework to achieve what they call a " grand convergence" in health by 2035.

为了纪念出版20周年，《柳叶刀》的一家国际委员会制定了一个投资框架，以在2035年前实现他们所谓的健康“大趋同”。

But the convergence process—in areas like leasing, insurance and losses on financial instruments—dragged on longer than expected.

然而在租赁、保险、金融工具亏损等领域，趋同的进程拖的比预期更长。

Groupthink refers to the type of bad decisions we make when we are in a group. Decisions that are contrary to - or against - what we really think.

趋同思维是指当我们身处一个团队之时做出的错误的决定，与自己真实想法相反的决定。

The SEC itself is distracted by the task of implementing the Dodd-Frank financial-reform law.

美国证券交易委员会肩负落实《多德-弗兰克金融改革法案》的重任，无暇顾忌趋同。

The second point is that the convergence is achievable in less than a generation.

第二点是，这种趋同在不到一代的时间内就可以实现。

Sixty percent agreed that their viewpoints converged.

百分之六十的同意他们的观点趋同。

So in the post-war years, there's this convergence.

所以在战后几年，出现了这种趋同。