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。

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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。

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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。

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In six research papers published in Science, an international team described how the hominids had almost-human hands attached to apelike arms, a rib cage that was narrow like an ape's at the top but more humanlike lower down, and a spine that likely had the same number of vertebrae as a human.

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Humans spread out, exterminated the easy prey and probably the competing hominids and populated the livable earth.

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If so, it raises the possibility that hominids colonised South-East Asia at least two million years ago.

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