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）。

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Now the most human-like australopithecine found to date is clarifying things-and staking a claim to be the species from which early humans evolved.

目前，迄今为止发现的与人类最为相似的南方古猿正逐渐解开这团迷雾——它阐明了早期人类是由哪个物种演化而来的。

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And that, says Strait, suggests that simplistic ideas about australopithecine diets, based on tooth and jaw size, and why they went extinct, need to be reevaluated.

斯特雷特还说，根据牙齿和颚的大小提出的关于南方古猿日常饮食以及它们为什么灭绝的过分简单的想法需要重新评估。

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And that, says Strait, suggests that simplistic ideas about australopithecine diets, based on tooth and jaw size, and why they went extinct, need to be reevaluated.

斯特雷特还说，根据牙齿和颚的大小提出的关于南方古猿日常饮食以及它们为什么灭绝的过分简单的想法需要重新评估。

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