That such precisely directed helping behavior pops up in as distant a relative as the ant belies some popular notion of Darwinian evolution.
这里正常语序应当为pops up in a relative as distant as the ant.
这里as distant 为什么提前了?
此句来自《基督教科学箴言报》
在 a(n) +形容词+单数名词结构中,如果形容词被程度副词so, as, too, how, this, that修饰,则程+形容词要移至不定式冠词之前,形成 so/as/too/how/this/that+形容词+a(n)+名词的结构。
你的句子中,形容词distant被程度副词as修饰,所以移至不定冠词之前。
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