Bioacoustics decenters humanity within the tree of life.

而生物声学颠覆了人类在生命之树上的位置。

Over cry shoulder is the tree of life.

越过哭泣的肩膀就是生命之树。

And so the tree of life began to explode.

于是生命之树开始激增。

A single-cell organism with its own branch on the tree of life.

在生命之树上有自己分支的单细胞有机体。

So the further we listen across the tree of life, the more complex interspecies communication would be.

我们在生命之树上聆听得越多，跨物种交流就会越复杂。

Insects are " the fabric by which Mother Nature and the tree of life are built, " Wagner said.

昆虫是" 构筑大自然母亲和生命之树的结构，" 瓦格纳说。

They are sometimes called “the tree of life.”

它们有时被称为“生命之树”。

Lots of other organisms came later in the tree of life.

许多其他生物后来出现在生命之树中。

Only one section of the tree of life can actually make a feather.

只有生命之树的一节， 才能真正造出一根羽毛。

What a metaphor, just the tree of life and then all this death.

多么比喻啊，只有生命之树，然后就是所有的死亡。

To understand this, we need to take a closer look at the tree of life.

为了理解这一点，我们需要仔细观察生命之树。

What's weird is that unrelated organisms separated by enormous distances on the tree of life share many of the same hormones.

奇怪的是，在生命之树上相隔甚远的不相关的有机体共有许多相同的激素。

Plants themselves make up a huge branch of the tree of life.

植物本身构成了生命之树的一个巨大分支。

Evolution is a single story that links every species, every branch in the tree of life together.

进化是一个单一的故事，将生命之树上的每个物种、每个分支联系在一起。

Those clues suggested that birds must have sprung from the reptilian branch of the tree of life.

这些线索表明，鸟类一定是从生命之树的爬行动物分支中诞生的。

And in our short time on this planet, we have trimmed, trainedand reshuffled the tree of life at breakneck speed.

在我们来到这个星球上的短暂时间里，我们以极快的速度修剪、训练和重新洗牌了生命之树。

Scientists have now used CRISPR to edit the DNA of organisms across the tree of life—butterflies, mushrooms, coffee, cuttlefish, and, yes, even humans.

科学家们现在已经开始使用CRISPR技术来编辑各种生物的DNA——包括蝴蝶、蘑菇、咖啡、墨鱼，甚至还有人类。

In one part of the tree of life, you'll find a lineage of lobe-finned fish that gave rise to amphibians.

在生命之树的一部分，您会发现进化出两栖动物的叶鳍鱼谱系。

(Elephant roaring) (Applause) So the further we listen across the tree of life, the more complex interspecies communication would be.

（大象咆哮）（掌声）因此， 我们在生命之树上听得越远，种间交流就越复杂。

With that important clue, the scientists searched branch after branch of the tree of life, looking for similarities with other creatures.

有了这条重要线索，科学家们在生命之树的一个分支上寻找一个分支， 寻找与其他生物的相似之处。