selection中等

A recent paper, titled “The Natural Selection of Bad Science”, published on the Royal Society’s open science website, attempts to answer this intriguing and important question.

最近发表在英国皇家学会开放科学网站上的一篇题为《糟糕科学的自然选择》的论文，试图回答这个耐人寻味又十分重要的问题。

A young man can [decide on] a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to [arrange] the marriage negotiations, or the young man’s parents may make the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection.

年轻男子可以自己选定一位合适的配偶，然后请父母安排婚事商谈；也可能由男方父母来选择配偶，孩子在选择中几乎没有发言权。

Just as the bewildering variety of human courtship rituals might all be considered forms of sexual selection, perhaps the world's languages, music, social and religious customs and even history are governed by universal features.

正如人类求偶仪式虽然多得令人眼花缭乱，却都可以被视为性选择的形式一样，或许世界上的语言、音乐、社会和宗教习俗乃至历史都受普遍特征的支配。