One involves recruiting biologists with a flair for evolutionary theory into the war on bugs.

其中一项是招募具有进化论天赋的生物学家加入到对细菌的战争中来。

Like we said, brains are super complex, and evolutionary theories like this can be very hard to test.

就像我们说的，大脑是超级复杂的，像这样的进化理论很难测试。

Evolutionary theory predicts--does not make any predictions about racial differences or ethnic differences.

进化论预测——不对种族差异或民族差异做出任何预测。

What does evolutionary theory say about sex differences?

进化论对性别差异有何看法？

Now, we're going to talk about how to apply evolutionary theory to psychology.

现在，我们要讨论如何将进化论应用到心理学中。

It's impossible to confirm this kind of evolutionary theory, but wherever this warning system came from, it doesn't include instructions for how to process this intense emotional experience.

要确认这种进化理论已经不可能了，但无论这个警报系统从何而来，它都没有指导人们如何处理这种强烈的情感体验。

We will talk about evolutionary theory, and the evolution of dinosaurs in more detail in later units of this course.

我们将在本课程后面的单元中更详细地讨论进化论和恐龙的进化。

The over-reliance on living apes to study humans has stunted evolutionary theories, including how humans evolved bipedalism, the ability to walk on two hind feet.

过度依赖活猿来研究人类已经阻碍了进化理论，包括人类如何进化出双足行走，用两只后脚行走的能力。

And evolutionary theory can help us say intelligent things about what sort of group differences you should expect because evolutionary theory predicts that some populations should evolve in different ways than others.

进化论可以帮助我们就应该期待什么样的群体差异做出明智的判断，因为进化论预测某些群体应该以与其他群体不同的方式进化。

Yet plate tectonics is a descendant of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift, in quite the same way that modern evolutionary theory is a descendant of Darwin's theory of natural selection.

然而板块构造学是阿尔弗雷德·韦格纳大陆漂移理论的后裔，就像现代进化论是达尔文自然选择理论的后裔一样。

Its theories and models are being developed and refined in universities around the world building on some of the best new research in economics, complexity theory, evolutionary theory, psychology, anthropology and other disciplines.

它的理论和模型正在世界各地的大学中发展和完善，建立在经济学，复杂性理论，进化理论，心理学，人类学和其他学科的一些最佳新研究的基础上。

Plate tectonics is in many respects quite different from Wegener's proposal, in the same way that modern evolutionary theory is very different from the ideas Charles Darwin proposed in the 1850s about biological evolution.

板块构造学在许多方面与韦格纳的提议截然不同，就像现代进化论与查尔斯·达尔文在 1850 年代提出的生物进化思想截然不同一样。

For this lecture--the rest of this lecture and then the next couple of lectures, I'll be discussing some basic aspects of human nature that are, to some extent or another, informed by evolutionary theory.

在本次讲座中——本次讲座的其余部分以及接下来的几场讲座，我将讨论人性的一些基本方面，这些方面在某种程度上受到进化论的启发。

So, in one clever study--So the theory says--the evolutionary theory says " yeah, I see what these vampire bats are doing, " but you see--and this is a case where evolution makes a nice prediction that couldn't evolve unless bats are keeping track.

所以，在一项聪明的研究中——理论说——进化论说“是的，我看到这些吸血蝙蝠在做什么， ”但是你看——在这种情况下， 进化做出了一个很好的预测， 而这个预测是不可能的。 除非蝙蝠能跟踪， 否则就不会进化。