“I don’t know what to make of this, at least not until there is more substantial fossil material than a partial finger bone, ” he says. “It may be going too far to propose a new hominid.”

“我不知道怎样解释这个东西，但是至少得等到有更多真实的化石材料可研究才能盖棺定论，仅凭一块手指骨，”他说“现在就提出有新的史前人类还为时过早。”

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The fossil record reveals both a hitherto unsuspected mountain-dwelling hominid and, in this article, how the dinosaurs began.

化石记录揭示了迄今为止没人怀疑的居住在山里的原始人类，以及在这篇文章中提到的恐龙的起源。

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With the discovery of Ardi (above), 3.2-million-year-old fossil Lucy is no longer the oldest hominid skeleton known.

阿尔迪的发现(上图)，让距今320万年的露西化石不再是已知最早的人类遗骨。

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