The higher animals have no religion.

高级动物没有宗教信仰。

Among the higher animals there is no trace of them.

人首创了这些特点，而在高级动物中没有这些特点的痕迹。

It is a trait that is not known to the higher animals.

这是一种高级动物闻所未闻的特点。

The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.

高级动物是唯一只干自己的活，自食其力的动物。

And since this happens at every level of the food chain, the higher up animals are, the more nitrogen-15 they have in their diet — and therefore, in their bodies.

这种现象在食物链的每一层都会发生，食物链地位越高，它们食物中的氮15含量越高——因此它们体内的氮15含量也就越高。

It would be impossible to name one of the higher animals in which some part or other is not in a rudimentary condition.

不可能说出哪一种高等动物的某部分或其他部分不处于原始状态。

Mortality composting is where you take an animal high in nitrogen and cover it with co-composting materials that are high in carbon.

死亡率堆肥是指将动物的氮含量高，并用碳含量高的混合堆肥材料覆盖它。

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.

因此，从自然界的战争、饥荒和死亡之后， 我们能够想到的最崇高的目标，即高等动物的生产， 直接随之而来。

It is also known with the higher animals, even after early youth, that the skull yields and is altered in shape, if the skin or muscles be permanently contracted through disease or some accident.

人们还知道， 对于高等动物， 即使在幼年之后，如果皮肤或肌肉因疾病或某种事故而永久收缩， 头骨也会屈服并改变形状。

For if the changes of the lower animals are so wonderful, and so difficult to discover, why should not there be changes in the higher animals far more wonderful, and far more difficult to discover?

因为如果低等动物的变化如此奇妙，如此难以发现，为什么高等动物的变化就不会更奇妙，更难发现呢？