1.About day four, we realized that there was nothing in this chamber but hominids.

大约在四天时候，们意识到，这间屋子里除了科动物，什么都没有。

2.By the 1950s, the number of named hominid types had risen to comfortably over a hundred.

到20世纪50年代，被命名种动物名称已达100种以上。

3.One area of paleoanthropological study involves the eating and dietary habits of hominids, erect bipedal primates—including early humans.

古类学研究一个领域涉及原（双脚直立行走灵长类动物，包括类）饮食习惯。

4.We evolved smooth long foreheads and agile eyebrows compared to a stiff brow ridge of archaic hominids.

与古类僵硬眉脊相比，们进化出了光滑长前额和灵活眉毛。

5.In fact, in 2007, in the Siwa oasis, an early hominid footprint was discovered fossilized in the rocks.

事实上，2007年在锡瓦岩石中，发现了一个原始足迹化石。

6.I found my first hominid — one-in-ten-million chance — my first day. It was completely — I was hooked.

发现了一个科动物化石——千万分之一机会——一天就发现了。完全被迷住了。

7.At no time since hominids first arose on Earth has Australia not been an island.

自从科动物一次在地球上出现以来，澳大利亚就一直是一块孤立陆地。

8.In addition, Homo erectus was the first hominid [HAH muh nid] to use fire.

此外，直立是一个使用火原始 [HAH muh nid]。机翻

9.To other hominids, Homo erectus must have seemed terrifyingly powerful, fleet, and gifted.

在其他科动物眼里，直立肯定显得个儿大、有力气、敏捷和有才干。

10.It has these very different hands than any kind of hominid we've ever seen before, with those long, curved fingers.

它手和们以前见过任何一种科动物手都不一样，有着又长又弯曲手指。

11.An upright hominid could see better, but could also be seen better.

直立行走科动物看得更清楚，但也被看得更清楚。

12.But, as early hominids expanded their group size, reciprocal grooming became too time-consuming.

但是，随着原始扩大他们群体规模，互惠梳理变得太耗时了。机翻

13.But there is also an uncomfortable overlap with the rise of a certain hominid species originating in Africa 150,000 years ago.

另一个双重效应就是15万年前某些原于非洲原始种进化。

14.The spacecraft gets her name from the Lucy fossil, an ancient human ancestor whose remains transform the study of hominid evolution.

“露西”号得名于“露西”化石，是古类祖先化石，其遗骸推进了对类进化研究。

15.I had looked at body proportions, but I had not made major hominid discoveries because they are just that rare.

曾研究过身体比例，但是对科动物没有重大发现，因为它们实在是太罕见了。

16.We know less about ourselves, curiously enough, than about almost any other line of hominids.

很有意思是，们对自己了解，少于对科动物几乎任何别分支了解。

17.If we were hunter gatherers or ancient hominids, every one of them would probably be dead.

如果们是狩猎采集者或古代原始，他们每个都可能已经死了。机翻

18.No persuasive reason has ever been adduced for why hominid brains suddenly began to grow two million years ago.

没有任何原因足以说明为什，么200万年前科动物大脑突然开始增大。

19.This discovery helps us understand how early humans fit in with other hominid and animal species.

这一发现有助于们了解类如何适应其他原始和动物物种。机翻

20.Early archaic hominids first arrived in the area  we today call Thailand at least 500,000 years ago.

至少在 50 万年前，古类首次抵达们今天称为泰国地区。机翻