\n Gene Replication Simulator\n 基因复制模拟器\n
\n\n Watch how genes persist through generations while individual organisms die\n 观察基因如何在个体生物死亡的同时通过世代持续存在\n
\n\n Controls\n 控制\n
\n\n Gene Legend\n 基因图例\n
\n\n Statistics\n 统计\n
\n\n What This Simulation Shows\n 这个模拟展示了什么\n
\nThis simulation demonstrates one of the key concepts in Richard Dawkins' \"The Selfish Gene\": while individual organisms are mortal, genes can potentially live forever by being copied and passed down through generations.
\n这个模拟展示了理查德·道金斯《自私的基因》中的一个关键概念:虽然个体生物是会死亡的,但基因可以通过被复制并传递给后代而潜在地永远存活。
\n \nIn the visualization above, each horizontal row represents a generation of organisms. As time progresses, individual organisms are born, reproduce, and die (indicated by fading), but their genes continue in their offspring. Some genes may mutate (indicated by striped patterns), creating genetic variation on which natural selection can act.
\n在上面的可视化中,每一行水平排列的生物代表一代生物。随着时间的推移,个体生物出生、繁殖和死亡(通过褪色表示),但它们的基因在后代中继续存在。一些基因可能发生突变(通过条纹图案表示),创造出遗传变异,自然选择可以作用于这些变异。
\n \nThe key insight is that from a gene's perspective, organisms are merely temporary vehicles that carry them forward in time. While any individual organism has a finite lifespan, a successful gene can persist for millions of years by continually being copied into new organisms.
\n关键的见解是,从基因的角度来看,生物体仅仅是将它们带入时间长河的临时载体。虽然任何个体生物都有有限的寿命,但一个成功的基因可以通过不断地被复制到新的生物体中而持续数百万年。
\n\n Gene-Centered View of Evolution\n 以基因为中心的进化观\n
\nThis simulation illustrates the fundamental shift in perspective that Dawkins presented in \"The Selfish Gene.\" Rather than seeing organisms as the primary units of selection, Dawkins argued that we should view genes as the units that survive or fail to survive through natural selection.
\n这个模拟说明了道金斯在《自私的基因》中提出的观点视角的根本转变。道金斯认为,我们应该将基因视为通过自然选择而生存或失败的单位,而不是将生物体视为主要的选择单位。
\n \n\n\n \n\"The genes are the immortals, or rather, they are defined as genetic entities that come close to deserving the title. We, the individual survival machines in the world, can expect to live a few more decades. But the genes in the world have an expectation of life that must be measured not in decades but in thousands and millions of years.\"
\n\"基因是不朽的,或者更确切地说,它们被定义为接近于应得这一称号的遗传实体。我们,世界上的个体生存机器,可以期望再活几十年。但世界上的基因的生命期望值必须以千年和百万年来衡量,而不是几十年。\"
\n Richard Dawkins\n
This perspective helps explain many aspects of evolution that are difficult to understand from an organism-centered view, including the evolution of altruistic behaviors, aging, and genetic conflicts.
\n这一观点有助于解释许多从以生物体为中心的视角难以理解的进化方面,包括利他行为、衰老和基因冲突的进化。
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