And in fact, Skinner explicitly made the analogy from the natural selection of species to the natural selection of behavior.

实际上，斯金纳也确实明确地,对物种的自然选择,同行为的自然选择进行过类比。

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That is, if they exist through Darwinian natural selection, ? to what extent can we ever get rid of them?

如果性别差异存在于,达尔文所说的自然选择当中，我们可以消除性别差异吗？

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Natural selection would create people who were in sync with their environment.

自然选择造就了,人类和环境的协调发展

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In natural selection, certain things happen.

与自然选择不同。

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Student: Wouldn't natural selection favor the people ? who learn all these things and then practically try to apply them?

学生：自然选择会不会垂青,学习并践行这些知识的人？

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And it might occur to some of you that this seems to be an analogy with the Darwinian theory of natural selection where there's a random assortment of random mutations.

也许你们之中会有人觉得,这和达尔文的自然选择理论,看上去很相似,自然选择就是随机突变的随机分配。

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In the aftermath of Darwin in particular, our understanding of natural selection, our understanding of genetic hard-wiring and other factors, makes us begin to wonder in what sense we can consider ourselves, each of us, to be autonomous subjects.

特别是继达尔文之后，我们对于自然选择，基因和其他因素的理解，让我们开始思考在哪种意义上我们每个人，可以把自己视为有自主性的主体。

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Wouldn't natural selection favor the people who take introductory psychology, come to my Valentine's Day lecture, listen carefully to the big three and the more interesting four, ? and then go out there and put them into practice?

自然选择会不会青睐,那些学习心理学导论，在情人节来听我讲座，专心致志听我讲影响吸引力的三大因素,和四个有趣因素，然后在生活中应用这些知识的人？

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An animal who has evolved a brain that says, "Take care of your offspring" will do much better from a natural selection point of view from an animal who has evolved a brain that says, "Eat your offspring."

逐步形成大脑的动物说，照顾你的后代“,好过从自然选择观点,看问题的动物说，吃掉你的后代“

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