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Being a man has always been dangerous. There are about 105 males born for every 100 females , but this ratio drops to near balan
Being a man has always been dangerous. There are about 105 males born for every 100 females , but this ratio drops to near balan
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2019-10-21
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Being a man has always been dangerous. There are about 105 males born for every 100 females , but this ratio drops to near balance at the age of maturity, and among 70-year-olds there are twice as many women as men. But the great universal of male mortality is being changed. Now, boy babies survive almost as well as girls do. This means that, for the first time, there will be an excess of boys in those crucial years when they are searching for a mate. More important, another chance for natural selection has been removed. Fifty years ago, the chance of a baby(particularly a boy baby)surviving depended on its weight. A kilogram too light or too heavy meant almost certain death. Today it makes almost no difference. Since much of the variation is due to genes, one more agent of evolution has gone.
There is another way to commit evolutionary suicide; stay alive, but have fewer children. Few people are as fertile as in the past. Except in some religious communities, very few women have 15 children. Nowadays the number of births, like the age of death, has become average. Most of us have roughly the same number of offspring. Again, differences between people and the opportunity for natural selection to take advantage of it have diminished. India shows what is happening. The country offers wealth for a few in the great cities and poverty for the remaining tribal peoples. The grand mediocrity of today—everyone being the same in survival and number of offspring—means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in upper-middle-class India compared to the tribes.
For us, this means that evolution is over; the biological Utopia has arrived. Strangely, it has involved little physical change. No other species fills so many places in nature. But in the past 100,000 years—even the past 100 years—our lives have been transformed but our bodies have not. We did not evolve, because machines and society did it for us. Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of evolution: they " look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension". No doubt we will remember a 20th century way of life beyond comprehension for its ugliness. But however amazed our descendants may be at how far from Utopia we were, they will look just like us.
Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
选项
A、Sex Ratio Changes in Human Evolution.
B、Ways of Continuing Man’s Evolution.
C、The Evolutionary Future of Nature.
D、Human Evolution Going Nowhere.
答案
D
解析
文章最后一段的前两句对全文内容进行了总结。人类的进化已经结束了,身体上发生的变化却微乎其微。A人类进化中性别比率的变化,比较片面,这只是影响进化的一个方面,不能以此作为文章的题目。本文并未讨论人类将来怎么办,故B人类进化继续下去的各种办法也不能作为文章的标题。本文作者并未从物种的角度来展望大自然的进化前景,因此C大自然的进化前景,也应予以否定。故选D。
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