Ajit Varki, a biologist at the University of California, San Diego, argues that the awareness of mortality on its own would have led evolution to a dead end.
加州大学圣地亚哥分校的生物学家阿吉特·瓦奇论述道：对自身死亡之必然的认知，会将进化引入死胡同。
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Varki is also co-director of the UCSD Glycobiology Research and Training Center, where the investigators have been exploring the interaction of bacterial pathogens with the innate immune system.