The grand mediocrity of today——everyone being the same in survival and number of off spring——means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in upper middleclass India compared to the tribe.
老师,破折号内独立主格结构干什么成分呢?句意上感觉应该是对mediocrity的讲解说明,但独立主格不是不可以做定语吗?
二个破折号内部分不是独立主格结构,而是动名词复合结构,作主语的非限制性同位语,是对主语作的补充说明。二个破折号可以改为二个逗号。