In the English language, some animals have come to represent human characteristics.

在英语里，有些动物代表人的性格。

It's not an unusual human characteristic to reduce the natural world down to very few elements.

把自然世界缩减到 极少的几种要素， 倒也没有违反人类本性。

People often anthropomorphize their pets – treat them as if they were human by giving them human characteristics.

人们经常将他们的宠物人格化——通过赋予它们人类的特征，像对待人类一样对待它们。

Instead, it reveals two defining human characteristics.

相反，它揭示了两个决定性的人类特征。

It is altogether too easy to attribute human characteristics to animals.

将人类特征归因于动物实在是太容易了。

To say that differently, it's ascribing human characteristics to non-living things.

换句话说，就是把人类的特征赋予非生物。

It’s hard to imagine that robots could replicate human characteristics, like empathy or compassion, that are required in many jobs.

很难想象机器人可以复制许多工作所需的人类特征，例如同理心或同情心。

I am talking about the role of genes and also the role of environment in explaining human differences, not in explaining human characteristics.

我谈论的是基因在解释人类差异中的作用， 以及环境在其中的作用，而不是解释人类特征。

Physical anthropology, or biological anthropology as it is also called, concerns the study of human biological or physical characteristics and how they evolved.

自然人类学，或称为生物人类学，正如其名，是讨论人类的生物学和自然学特点，以及这些特点是如何演化的。