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Spanish to English

(Spanish to English)

tercero Los comienzos de la vida

COMO todo el mundo sabe hoy en día, el conocimiento que poseemos de la vida antes de los inicios de la memoria y la tradición humana se deriva de las marcas y fósiles de seres vivos en las rocas estratificadas. Encontramos conservados en esquistos y pizarras, calizas y areniscas, huesos, conchas, fibras, tallos, frutos, huellas, rasguños y similares. lado a lado con las marcas onduladas de las primeras mareas y las picaduras de las primeras lluvias. Es por el examen diligente de este Registro de las Rocas que se ha reconstruido la historia pasada de la vida en la tierra. Eso casi todo el mundo lo sabe hoy. Las rocas sedimentarias no se encuentran ordenadamente estrato sobre estrato; han sido arrugados, doblados, empujados, distorsionados y mezclados como las hojas de una biblioteca que ha sido repetidamente saqueada y quemada, y es solo como resultado de muchas vidas dedicadas de trabajo que el registro se ha puesto en orden y leer. Todo el compás de tiempo representado por el registro de las rocas ahora se estima como.

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III. The Beginnings of Life

AS everybody knows nowadays, the knowledge we possess of life before the beginnings of human memory and tradition is derived from the markings and fossils of living things in the stratified rocks. We find preserved in shale and slate, limestone, and sandstone, bones, shells, fibres, stems, fruits, footmarks, scratchings and the like, side by side with the ripple marks of the earliest tides and the pittings of the earliest rain-falls. It is by the sedulous examination of this Record of the Rocks that the past history of the earth's life has been pieced together. That much nearly everybody knows to-day. The sedimentary rocks do not lie neatly stratum above stratum; they have been crumpled, bent, thrust about, distorted and mixed together like the leaves of a library that has been repeatedly looted and burnt, and it is only as a result of many devoted lifetimes of work that the record has been put into order and read. The whole compass of time represented by the record of the rocks is now estimated as.
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