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philosophical concerns as the mind-body problem or，moregenerally，the nature of human knowledge they believe，are basic human questions whose tentative philosophical solutions have served as the necessary foundations on which all other intellectual speculation hasrested.

他們相信，諸如靈與肉的問題，或更普遍而言，人類知識的性質等此類哲學關注，均是一些基本的人類問題，其探索性的哲學答案已構成一個必要的`基礎，其它所有的智力思辯均賴以建立其上。

idea of an autonomous discipline called philosophy，distinct from and sitting in judgment on such pursuits as theology andscience turns out，on close examination，to be of quite recent origin.

細作審視，我們便不難發現，一種被稱為哲學的獨立學科既有別於神學和科學諸般學科，並高高在上地對其予以評判的思想，其淵源卻是甚為近期的事。

the recent discovery of detailed similarities in the skeletal structure of the flippers in all three groups undermines the attempt to explain away superficial resemblance as due to convergent evolution-the independent development of similarities between unrelated groups in response to similar environmental pressures.

但是，最近在所有這三類動物身上，對鰭肢的骨骼結構所存在的細緻共同點的發現足以削弱這樣一種企圖，即把表面上的近似作為趨同進化所致的結果來將其解釋掉。而所謂的趨同進化，是指在互不相關的生物羣體之間，作為對類似的環境壓力作出的反應，彼此獨立的發展形成某些相同特徵。