Why Evolution Is True

we are the only species that has figured out how we came to be.

论证落到认知特权，plot 88。

Darwin well knew the seductive power of arguments like Paley’s.

双人论敌骨架，cast 82。

it takes roughly between 100,000 and five million years to evolve two reproductively isolated descendants.

时间尺度压节奏，pace 87。

Nature resembles a well-oiled machine, with every species an intricate cog or gear.

隐喻即教学，prose 90。

Mountain ranges rise, glaciers spread, deserts form, continents drift, and drought divides a continuous forest into patches separated by grassland.

隔离地形成世界，world 92。

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

反讽题记开钩，hook 91。

genetic drift is not only powerless to create adaptations, but can actually overpower natural selection.

把漂移写进大众论证，innov 86。

We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe.

科学自豪收束，ending 90。