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

大约在第四天时候，我们意识到，这间屋子里除了人科动物，什么都没有。

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

古人类学研究一个领域涉及原人（双脚直立行走类动物，包括早期人类）饮食习惯。

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

自从人科动物第一次在地球上出现以来，澳大利亚就一直是一块孤立陆地。

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

到20世纪50年代，被命名人动物名称已达100以上。

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

很有意思是，我们对自己了解，少于对人科动物几乎任何别分支了解。

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

在其他人科动物眼里，直立人肯定显得个儿大、有气、敏捷和有才干。

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，发现了一个早期原始人足迹化石。

The Asian hominids would have had to appear, as it were, spontaneously.

可以说，除非亚洲人科动物是自发出现。

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

我发现了我第一个人科动物化石——千万分之一机会——我第一天就发现了。我完全被迷住了。

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

直立行走人科动物看得更清楚，但也被看得更清楚。

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

此外，直立人是第一个使用火原始人 [HAH muh nid]。

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

但是，随着早期原始人扩大他们群体规模，互惠梳理变得太耗时了。

But anthropologists theorize that early hominids relied on lightning to cause forest fires, from which they could collect coals and burning sticks.

但是人类学家推论早期原始人依赖闪电引起森林大火，从而收取煤和燃烧枝干。

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

它手和我们以前见过任何一人科动物手都不一样，有着又又弯曲手指。

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

如果我们是狩猎采集者或古代原始人，他们每个人都可能已经死了。

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，早期古人类首次抵达我们今天称为泰国地区。

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200万年前人科动物大脑突然开始增大。

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人进化。

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，是古人类祖先化石，其遗骸推进了对人类进化研究。

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

这一发现有助于我们了解早期人类如何适应其他原始人和动物物。