Cole博士想要揭示的是这样一种机制:环境可以影响人们体内的生化活动,调整人体内的基因组以让其做出合适的反应。
It is not that the lonely and the gregarious are genetically different from each other.
并不是说孤独之人和爱交际之人在基因上彼此不同。
Rather, their genes are regulated differently, according to how sociable an individual is.
而是他们根据个人对交际喜爱的程度不同,各自以不同的方式调控各自的基因。
Dr Cole thinks this regulation is part of a wider mechanism that tunes individuals to thecircumstances they find themselves in.
Cole博士认为这种调节是一种更广泛的让个人适应他们所在环境的机制中的一部分。
Where it goes wrong is when loneliness becomes chronic, and the inflammatory responsebecomes chronic at the same time.
当孤独的生活状态变成一种常态,问题就出现了炎症反应同时也变成常态了。
Before civilisation intervened, such chronic loneliness would have been so rarethatevolution would have ignored it.
在文明到来之前,这种常态性的孤独非常罕见,进化就把它忽略了。
Now, paradoxically, the large population that civilisation makes possible means lonelinessis commonplaceand with it consequences that natural selection, which is blind to thefuture, has not yet had time to deal with.
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