Some of our ancestors are clearly inferior to us, with smaller brains and apelike countenances.
我们的有些祖先有着更小的大脑和类人猿似的脸,他们明显不如我们。
The femur was fairly long, an advanced Homo-like trait, but the forearm was long too, a more apelike feature.
这个重大的考古发现让研究人员们终于得以一窥这些远古人类的“芳容”:相当长的腿骨是高等直立人的特征,但同时过长的前臂骨又让它们与类人猿颇为相像。
Australopithecenes were apelike creatures that walked upright, like people, but had still not forsaken the trees.
南方古猿是似类人猿动物,它们能像人一样直立行走,但仍然没有离开树木。
More interesting, in his view, are the strange combinations of apelike and humanlike features that Dr. Berger’s team has described.
在他看来,更有趣的是,伯格尔博士的研究小组描述既像类人猿又像人的特征的奇怪组合。
A cast of the inside of the skull shows an apelike brain, but one that had taken the first step toward being reorganized on human lines.
头骨的内部形状表明了这是一个类人猿的大脑,但是这个大脑已经向人类重组的大脑迈出了第一步。
Hitherto, the explanation for this shift from the smaller skulls and wider pelvises of man's apelike ancestors has been a shift from a vegetable-based diet to a meat-based one.
至今,这种从人类类猿祖先的小颅骨和宽大骨盆到现在的改变被解释为一种草食到肉食的改变。
But she was found without her foot bones, so researchers have debated whether she walked as we do or retained some apelike adaptations for climbing in trees that altered her gait.
但在发掘她时没有发现她的脚骨,因此研究者一直在争论她是否真的像现代人类一样行走,亦或仍然保留着类似于猿的利于攀爬的介于行走和爬行之间的移动方式。
This mixture of apelike and humanlike features suggests that the new species was transitional between the australopithecines and humans, the researchers said at a news conference on Wednesday.
星期三,该组研究人员在一个新闻发布会上说,这种既像类人猿又像人类的混合特征表明,这个新的物种是南方古猿和人类之间的过度类型。
This mixture of apelike and humanlike features suggests that the new species was transitional between the australopithecines and humans, the researchers said at a news conference on Wednesday.
星期三,该组研究人员在一个新闻发布会上说,这种既像类人猿又像人类的混合特征表明,这个新的物种是南方古猿和人类之间的过度类型。
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