No one knows precisely how hominids before Lucy’s time walked.
没有人清楚地知道露西时代之前的原始人如何行走。
Any member of the suborder anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids.
猿科动物亚目中的成员，包括猴子、猿和原人。
But in hominids - including Toumai - it is placed more towards the front of the skull.
巨猿的枕骨大孔更靠近头骨后部，但包括图迈在内的人科动物的枕骨大孔更靠近头骨前部。
The hominids - our ancestors and their close relations - were adapted to living in trees.
原始人类，我们的祖先和他们的近亲，已经适应了在树上生活。
"The earliest hominids didn't become upright walkers the way we did right away," he explains.
最早的原始人类并没有马上成为我们这样的直立步行者，“他说。”
First discovered in 1891 in Indonesia, Homo erectus is one of the best known ancient hominids.
自1891年在印度尼西亚被首次发现以来，直立人已经成为最著名的古人类之一。
In the 5 million years since we hominids separated from apes, our DNA has evolved less than 2%.
在人类从猿进化为人之后的五百万年中，我们的DNA只进化了不到2%。
If so, walking may have evolved in leaps and bounds, rather than gradually, among ancient hominids.
果真如此，古代原始人的行走进化过程很可能是一日千里，而非循序渐进。
We are, of course, related to early primates too, not only the much 'younger' hominids found in Africa.
当然，相对于早期灵长类，以及在非洲所发现的原始人类化石，人类则要‘年轻’许多。
The archeological evidence suggests that even the earliest hominids always grouped together to live and hunt.
有考古证据表明，甚至最早的远古人类也总是聚成一群生活打猎。
We're drawn to the idea that we are the end point, the pinnacle not only of the hominids but of all animal life.
我们都喜欢这样的观点：我们是进化的顶峰，不仅是原始人进化的顶峰，也是所有生命进化的顶峰。
THE GREAT AGE of the Georgian hominids and the simplicity of their tools came as a shock to many paleoanthropologists.
乔治亚化石人的年代古老，石器又原始，令许多古人类学家都觉得震惊。
Primitive pottery period be used as daily necessities of life among the first hominids to consider its practical purpose.
原始时期的陶器作为生活用品被用于原始人的生活当中首先考虑了它的实用目的。
Perhaps 20 or more hominids (not all of them ourancestors) fill the gap between Lucy the australopithecine and modernhumans.
现代人和古露西猿人（Lucytheaustralopithecine）之间的空白则有大约20多种原始人来填补（并非所有都是我们的最先）。
Australopithecus was a group of early hominids that is reckoned to be the ancestral genus of Homo, to which modern man belongs.
南方古猿是早期原始人类的一部分，被认为是祖先人种，现代人就由此而来。
"Sometimes one sees writers just standing before it, like early hominids in front of a monolith," said Nick Denton, Gawker Media's founder.
“有时有人会注意到作者们只是站在它面前，犹如原始人类站在巨石前一样，”高科传媒的创始人尼克·丹顿说。
The hominids, in contrast, are only newly African, our ancestors having arrived on the continent from Eurasia a mere ten million years ago.
相比较，原始人到非洲要晚的多，我们的祖先只是在一千万年前才从欧亚大陆来到这里。
The fossil hominids were diagnosed as early Homo sapiens, with a cultural age of Middle Paleolithic, and geologic age of early Late Pleistocen.
丁村人被确定为早期智人，文化时代为旧石器时代中期，所属地质时代则被定为晚更新世早期。
These early hominids were likely "ancient pioneers", as they appear to be among the first to leave Africa to colonize other parts of the world.
这些早期的原始人可能是“古老的开荒者”，他们似乎是第一批离开非洲去世界其他地方开拓殖民地的人。
That proved bipedalism did not evolve on the savannah, but since hair does not fossilise, it is hard to establish when the hominids began to lose it.
这证明，两足动物的演化史并不是在大草原上进行的。但是，由于毛发不会变成化石，因此很难确定原始人类在什么时候开始失去毛发。
It was reported that truncated mutations in this gene can cause primary microcephaly in humans with a brain size comparable with that of early hominids.
前人的研究表明，该基因突变失活以后，会引发人类原发性小脑症，病人的脑容量仅有正常人的三分之一到四分之一，相当于早期类人猿的脑容量。
"What we can say for now is that there were at least three different forms of hominids living in the Altai Mountains around 40,000 years ago," paabo says.
“我们现在能确定的就是，在大约40,000年前在艾泰尔山一带至少生活着3种人类祖先，”paabo说。
Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.
原始人类是指所有的穴居人，古猿，智人，直立行走的类人猿等，而我们是唯一幸存的类人猿物种。
"What we can say for now is that there were at least three different forms of hominids living in the Altai Mountains around 40, 000 years ago," paabo says.
“我们现在能确定的就是，在大约40,000年前在艾泰尔山一带至少生活着3种人类祖先，”paabo说。
They aren't the oldest known fossils of hominids — as prehuman species and their relatives are called — but constitute the most complete set discovered so far.
这些化石并不是已知最早的原始人化石，但却是迄今发现的原始人化石中最完整的。
"Somewhat ironically, this then raises the question of whether modern human chewing damage is actually the best analog for these early hominids," Egeland added.
“讽刺的是，这又引起了现代人咬噬留下的伤痕是否确实模拟出早期人类的问题，”Egeland补充道。
Paabo acknowledges the complexity of finding new hominids in mitochondrial DNA, which in animals such as mice can pass from one species to another via interbreeding.
paabo承认在线粒体dna中找寻新的史前人类是很复杂的，因为在动物世界中，比如老鼠，物种可以通过杂交从一个传到另一个。
John Thorbjarnarson knew he could not end men's fear of crocodilians, hard-wired since hominids first ventured down from the trees into swamps that seethed with them.
约翰•瑟布贾纳森知道，自人类首次冒险从树上直接落入鳄鱼渲腾的沼泽中以来，他不可能终结人们对鳄鱼的恐惧。
John Thorbjarnarson knew he could not end men's fear of crocodilians, hard-wired since hominids first ventured down from the trees into swamps that seethed with them.
约翰•瑟布贾纳森知道，自人类首次冒险从树上直接落入鳄鱼渲腾的沼泽中以来，他不可能终结人们对鳄鱼的恐惧。
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