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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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2018-03-01
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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 has 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.
The text is mainly about ______.
选项
A、men’s survival rate is lower than women
B、natural selection’s power is diminishing
C、human evolution is going nowhere
D、human evolution has a bright future
答案
C
解析
第一段末尾提到基因演化消失了。第二段开头提到进化自杀(即停止进化)的方式,最后一句话提到自然选择的力量消失了80%。最后一段开头提到进化已经结束了,包括最后一段中间也提到类似的说法。从这些重要的首尾句可以看出,文章的中心主旨是选项C。选项A对应第一段,是局部信息。选项B也是第二段的局部信息,选项D和文章中心相反。
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