From the point of view of evolution, men originated millions of years ago from the anthropoid, a species commonly referred to as the ape man.

从进化的观点来看，人类起源于几百万年前的类人猿，通常又称作猿人。

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And here's the one I suggest: a hairy ape man with a thick brow sits crouched, working a tiny hole into a small shell.

这里就是我的建议：一个毛茸茸的弯腰驼背的额头沉重的猿人，蹲着在贝壳上钻一个小孔。

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Then the author makes a deductive broad jump to the idea that radiation produces creatures "as far beyond us as we are beyond the ape-man."

然后作者来了个“高瞻远瞩”的猜想——核辐射创造的物种“将远远超越我们，正如我们远远超越猿人一样”。

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Only later did his measurements show that the skull-cap was from a new transitional species, pithecanthropus erectus, the upright ape-like man.

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In very non-scientific terms, it can be described as a type of ape-man with anatomical similarities to the modern ape and the modern human.

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