For just about every aspect of our bodies and behaviour, it\'s easy to invent evolutionary "Just So" stories to explain how they came to be that way.

编造一个“只是如此”的进化故事来解释“我们身体和行为的每一方面为什么是这样子”很容易。

youdao

"Our motto here is to bring stories to life, so by having the movie and music studio we can really tap into a different Angle of what stories are," she said. "They're not just in books."

“我们的格言是把故事带进生活，所以通过这个电影和音乐的工作室，我们能够从一个不同的角度去了解什么是故事，”她说，“故事不仅仅在书里面。”

youdao

Having heard so many stories like this, I just feel I am like a balloon, which is seemingly flying high but is actually upheld by the cloud, and which is seemingly "full" but actually very "empty".

听多了这样的故事，便常常觉得自己像只气球，仿佛飞得很高，仔细一看却是被浮云托着；外表看上去也还饱满，但肚子里却是空空。

youdao

Of course, many scientists are justifiably skeptical about such "just-so stories" in evolutionary psychology.

WSJ: Why Are Our Kids Useless? Because We're Smart

Studying the development of quokkas and crows is one way to go beyond just-so stories in trying to understand how we got to be human.

WSJ: Mind & Matter: Why Are Our Kids Useless? Because We're Smart