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1.万物简史 第624期:神秘的两足动物(2)
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At the time Dubois conceived his plan to search for a missing link, the human fossil record consisted of very little: five incomplete Neandertal skele...
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2.万物简史 第623期:神秘的两足动物(1)
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THE MYSTERIOUS BIPED 第二十八章神秘的两足动物 Just before Christmas 1887, a young Dutch doctor with an un-Dutch name, Marie Eugene Francois Thomas Dub...
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3.万物简史 第622期:冰河时代(19)
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On the other hand, the next phase of our history could see us melting a lot of ice rather than making it. If all the ice sheets melted, sea levels wou...
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4.万物简史 第621期:冰河时代(18)
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Climate is the product of so many variablesrising and falling carbon dioxide levels, the shifts of continents, solar activity, the stately wobbles of ...
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5.万物简史 第620期:冰河时代(17)
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What is most alarming is that we have no ideanonewhat natural phenomena could so swiftly rattle Earth's thermometer. As Elizabeth Kolbert, writing in ...
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6.万物简史 第619期:冰河时代(16)
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For a long time it was thought that we moved into and out of ice ages gradually, over hundreds of thousands of years, but we now know that that has no...
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7.万物简史 第618期:冰河时代(15)
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Throughout all this the tubeworms and clams and other life forms adhering to deep ocean vents undoubtedly went on as if nothing were amiss, but all ot...
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8.万物简史 第617期:冰河时代(14)
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Before fifty million years ago, Earth had no regular ice ages, but when we did have them they tended to be colossal. A massive freezing occurred about...
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9.万物简史 第616期:冰河时代(13)
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For most of its history until fairly recent times the general pattern for Earth was to be hot with no permanent ice anywhere. The current ice ageice e...
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10.万物简史 第615期:冰河时代(12)
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The Milankovitch cycles alone are not enough to explain cycles of ice ages. Many other factors are involvednot least the disposition of the continents...