Thus, natural selection stabilized this host-parasite relationship.
因此，自然选择让这种寄主-寄生关系变得稳定。
Natural selection favors the parasites that are best able to find and feed on hosts.
自然选择偏爱那些最容易找到寄主并以之为食的寄生虫。
The answer we'll propose of course is that their behavior is largely a matter of natural selection.
我们给出的答案当然是它们的行为大部分是自然选择的结果。
At times, it is actually possible to watch the effects of natural selection in host-parasite relationships.
有时，在宿主-寄生虫关系中观察自然选择的影响实际上是可能的。
Charles Darwin, the first to describe the role of natural selection in speciation, wrote about the mechanisms of speciation.
查尔斯·达尔文是第一个描述自然选择在物种形成中的作用的人，他描写了物种形成的机制。
According to the first of these theories, each individual has evolved, aided by natural selection, an adaptation to the rhythmic environment.
根据第一个理论，在自然选择的帮助下，每个个体经过进化都适应了这个有规律的环境。
Once natural selection had shaped the adaptations that helped plants overcome the obstacles to terrestrial living, plants prospered and diversified.
一旦自然选择塑造了植物的适应机制，使之克服在陆地生活的障碍，植物物种就生机勃勃且丰富多样了。
As Charles Darwin observed, natural selection operates whenever individuals of one genetic composition are better at reproducing than that of others.
正如查尔斯·达尔文（Charles Darwin）所观察到的那样，只要有一种基因组成的个体比其他个体更善于繁殖，自然选择就会起作用。
Meanwhile, the deadliest strains of the virus perished with their hosts as natural selection favored strains that could infect hosts but not kill them.
同时，由于自然选择更倾向于选择那些能够感染宿主但不致其死亡的病毒，这种致命病毒便随着宿主的死亡而消失。
The result, once natural selection had done its work over the course of millions of years, was the now familiar cast of Allosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex.
结果，历经数百万年间的自然选择，形成了我们今日熟知的异特龙和雷克斯霸王龙族群。
A recent paper, titled "The Natural Selection of Bad Science", published on the Royal Society's open science website, attempts to answer this intriguing and important question.
最近发表在英国皇家学会开放科学网站上的一篇题为《烂科学的自然选择》的论文，试图回答这个有趣而重要的问题。
Given that there is a living to be made at night, and given that alternative daytime trades are thoroughly occupied, natural selection has favoured bats that make a go of the night-hunting trade.
考虑到夜晚也可以生存，并且可供选择的白天的“交易”完全被占用，它们自然选择偏爱那些成功在夜间进行捕食“交易”的蝙蝠。
Natural selection ensures only the fittest survive to pass their genes on to the next generation.
物竞天择确保只有最适应环境的物种才得以生存下来，把基因传递给下一代。
We've turned the notion of natural selection on its head.
我们已经将自然选择的概念从头进行转变。
Natural selection is a radically environmentalist theory.
自然选择是一个彻底的环保理论。
Evolving through natural selection is about time and Numbers.
通过自然选择进化讲述的是时间和数量的故事。
In fact, natural selection often leads to ever greater simplicity.
事实上，自然选择往往导致越来越简单。
They emerged from myriad possible shapes through natural selection.
这些是从无数可能的图形中通过自然选择出现的。
ANTIBIOTIC drugs are a well-known test of the idea of natural selection.
抗生素是对自然选择学说一个十分知名的论证。
The first rule of natural selection is: “If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
自然选择的第一条规则是：“如果没坏，就不要修理它。”
But other phenomena that look like diseases are known to be maintained by natural selection.
但是据了解，其他一些看似疾病的现象则被视作源于自然选择。
But natural selection takes time - sometimes millions or even hundreds of millions of years.
不过自然选择需要时间-有时候是数百万年甚至是数百亿年。
The question is whether natural selection really shaped that preference, as the study claims.
问题在于是否真的像这项研究所说的，是自然选择造成这一偏好。
And there's some evidence that natural selection favored infants whose cries were most alarming.
而且有一些证据表明，哭声越让人受不了，自然选择越青睐这样的婴儿。
Natural selection may just gust about, favoring different sets of genes from one year to the next.
自然选择有其时效性和突发性，可能每年都会偏向不同的基因。
It stuck, because natural selection favors new traits that give their owners a survival advantage.
它能被保存下来是因为自然只选择那些有生存优势的新特点。
Critics may complain that viewing all behaviour through a prism of natural selection is reductive.
批评家们可能会抱怨，透过自然选择的棱镜观看所有的行为显得支离破碎。
Critics may complain that viewing all behaviour through a prism of natural selection is reductive.
批评家们可能会抱怨，透过自然选择的棱镜观看所有的行为显得支离破碎。
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