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进化将成为你身边的故事书
进化将成为你身边的故事书
Young children are notorious for their surfeit of 为什么 questions, often directed at aspects of the biological world. 例如，带一个三岁的孩子去动物园，你可能会被要求解释为什么斑马有条纹，为什么大象有鼻子，为什么火烈鸟有这么细的腿。 (Also: 为什么 you can’t pet the lion, 为什么 another cookie is off limits and 为什么 it’s really, really time to go home.)
Yet this childhood curiosity about the adaptive traits of biological organisms, which Rudyard Kipling recognized with his whimsical “Just So Stories,” is all but ignored by current education standards in the United States. It isn’t until high school — more than a decade after that curious preschooler wandered the zoo — that children start to learn how natural selection really works.
