Nor can we be certain that they were australopithecines. They are assumed to be australopithecines because there are no other known candidates.

我们也不能确他们是南方古猿。他们之所以被假为南方古猿，是因为我们不知道还有别的候选对象。

For over three million years, Lucy and her fellow australopithecines scarcely changed at all.

在300多万年的时里，露西和她的南方古猿同伴们儿乎没有发生任何变化。

The most famous hominid remains in the world are those of a 3.18-million-year-old australopithecine found at Hadar in Ethiopia in 1974 by a team led by Donald Johanson.

最有名的人科动物遗骸是1974年由唐纳德·约领的考古小组在埃塞俄比亚的哈达尔发现的几块318万年前的南方古猿化石。

Australopithecine brains are about 20% bigger than chimpanzees and our brains run on fat.

南方古猿的大脑比黑猩猩大约 20%，我们的大脑靠脂肪运行。

And the first essays in the genus Homo were probably not much different from australopithecines.

最早属于人属的尝试者可能与南方古猿没有太大差别。

There's been an argument that really these are just other australopithecines.

有观点认为这些实际上只是其他南方古猿。