In all cases positive palaeontological evidence may be implicitly trusted; negative evidence is worthless, as experience has so often shown.

在所有情况下， 积极的古生物学证据都可能是绝对可信的；正如经验经常表明的那样， 负面证据毫无价值。

Moreover, as Ms Raja observes, several not-yet-properly rich places, notably China, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and India, are indeed developing as palaeontological powers in their own right.

此外，正如拉贾女士所观察到的，一些尚未完全富裕的国家，特别是中国、巴西、阿根廷、墨西哥和印度，确实正在以自身的方式发展成为古生物学强国。

Such then was the state of palaeontological science, and what we knew of it was sufficient to explain our behaviour in the presence of this stupendous Golgotha.

这就是古生物学的现状，我们对它的了解足以解释我们在这个巨大的各各他面前的行为。

Mummification in Egypt began about 4,600 years ago—the blink of an eye in palaeontological terms—and the desert climate of that country is particularly conducive to the preservation of DNA.So this was a good place to begin.

埃及的木乃伊制作始于大约 4600 年前——从古生物学的角度来看只是一眨眼的功夫——而且那个国家的沙漠气候特别有利于 DNA 的保存。所以这是一个很好的起点。