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“Your inner fish is an epic journey inside our own bodies.”
“《你內心的魚》是我們身體內一場史詩般宏大的進化演變旅程。”
That's University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin, author of the 2008 book Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body.
這句話出自芝加哥大學的古生物學家尼爾·署賓，他同時也是 2008年暢銷書:你內心的魚 一場探究人類自身35億年進化演變史旅行的作者。
“Within each of us, in every organ, every cell, every gene, we have over three billion years of the history of life.
“我們每個人的體內，每個器官，每個細胞，每個基因中都有超過30億年歷史的生命存在。
When we put that all together we come up with this wonderful story about how deeply we are connected to the rest of life on our planet.”
當我們把它們串聯在一起之后就有了關于我們每個人和地球上其余生命之間聯系精彩紛呈的故事。”
And Your Inner Fish comes to television starting April 9 and continuing for the next two Wednesday nights on PBS.
而這檔從4月9日正式登陸PBS臺的電視節目將在接下來的兩個周三晚間繼續為您呈現精彩。
“Let's take a fish we found from the Arctic.
“讓我們先看看之前從北極抓的一條魚吧。
This fish has fins.
這條魚有鰭。
But when you open up the fins you find bones that correspond to the upper arm, the forearm, even parts of the wrist.
但展開魚鰭后你會發現里面是有骨頭的，這些骨頭與動物的上肢、前臂，甚至是手腕的某些部分都是有淵源的。
And what's amazing about that is we can trace that fish to amphibians to reptiles to primates, all the way to us.
而且最神奇的是根據相關性追溯到這些魚類與兩棲類，爬行類再到靈長類動物之間的聯系，所有與我們人類之間有著聯系。”
“The transition from life in water to life on land is not some strange event in the history of life, it's an event that's embedded in our bodies.
“生命從水中延伸到陸地上的這種轉變并非生命歷史長河中的特別事件，這是蘊含在我們身體中必然會經歷的階段。
Every time we bend our wrists, every time we breathe with our lungs, we can thank those fish evolving in streams 375 million years ago.”
無論何時我們彎曲我們的手腕，用肺進行氣體交換，我們都要感謝3.75億年前水流中進化出來的那些先驅魚類。”
