The caveman who always assumed there was a lion behind the next rock would usually be wrong, but he'd be much more likely to survive and reproduce than one who always assumed the opposite.

总是假设下一块石头后面有一头狮子的穴居人通常是错误判断，但他比总是比想法乐观的人更有可能生存和繁衍。

Among the bones of hyenas, elephants, horse and other animals, scientists say they found the remains of nine Neanderthals or neandertalls, a type of primitive human.

在鬣狗、大象、马和其他动物的骨头中，科学家称，他了九具尼安德塔人或穴居人的遗骸，这是原始人类的一种。

" I don't see the caveman being in this movie."

“我看不出这个穴居人能演这部电影。”

What happens over time now in our modern era, there are so many metaphorical tigers.

随着时间的推移，代生活与之前相比生了巨大的改变，我遇到了新型压力问题，和当时穴居人遇到老虎是一样的状。

I thought this must have gone back to the caveman.

我觉得这个问题可以一直追溯到穴居人那会儿。

Based on these facts, scientist Nikolai Kardashev developed a method of categorizing civilizations, from cave dwellers to gods ruling over galaxies: The Kardashev Scale; a method of ranking civilizations by their energy use.

基于这些事实，科学家尼古拉·卡尔达肖夫明了一套给文明分类的方法——从穴居人到统治整个星系的神灵——卡尔达肖夫指数，一套通过能量使用来对文明进行排名的方法。

Scientists still have to identify the causes of all injuries and how the injured were cared for. That could give us more understanding into the behavior of both Neanderthals and ancient humans, she wrote.

科学家仍然要对所有受伤的成因进行鉴定以及研究伤者受到怎样的照顾。她写到，这将让我对穴居人和古人类的行为有更深入的理解。

Back in my caveman days, 300 000 years ago, when homo sapiens first started depending on who you ask, yes, it would have killed me because now I'm ostracized from the group.

回到穴居人的时代，30 万年前，当智人第一次开始出，根据你问的对象，是的，它会杀了我，因为在我被这个群体排斥了。

And since cavemen probably spent more time hunting saber-tooth tigers than they did creating wormholes, we probably won't be traveling back there anytime soon, because there's just no way to get there.

由于穴居人花在猎杀剑齿虎上的时间可能多于他创造虫洞的时间，我可能不会很快回到那里，因为根本没有办法到达。

A series of grooves carved into the wall of a cave in Gibraltar may be proof that Neanderthals, the extinct cousins of modern humans, were more creative and intelligent than previously thought.

雕刻在直布罗陀一个洞穴墙壁上的一系列纹路或许可以证明已灭绝的代人近亲穴居人比此前认为的更有创造力和智慧。

Right up until the middle of the twentieth century the accepted anthropological view of the Neandertal was that he was dim, stooped, shuffling, and simian-the quintessential caveman.

直到20纪中叶，人类学普遍流行的观点是，尼安德特人举止笨拙，身体弯曲，拖拽着脚行走，与猿人没有多大区别——他是穴居人中的佼佼者。

Archaeologists say they have identified what may be one of the last ornaments won by Neanderthal people before they were displaced by modern humans.

考古学家表示他鉴别出可能是穴居人留下的最后一件饰品。穴居人后来被代人所取代。

All the work was done by the squaws, for the Indian braves, like the early cave men, had to attend to the hunting and fighting.

所有的工作都是由女性完成的，因为印第安勇士和早期的穴居人一样，必须参加狩猎和战斗。

But it might be possible, as knowledge advances, to reconstruct part of it from a better understanding of that extinct species's DNA.

但是随着知识的积累，科学倒是家可以凭借对已消亡的物种的DNA更深入的了解，将穴居人的部分基因重出来。

His had softened during the many generations since the day his last wild ancestor was tamed by a cave-dweller or river man.

自巴克的野狗祖先被穴居人和河居人驯化以来, 许多代都是如此, 他的脚早就变得柔软了。

Other scientists had different ideas, they rebuilt skeletons to look like cartoon cavemen, instead insisting Neanderthals were some failed, evolutionary dead end.

其他科学家有不同的想法，他重建骷髅，让它看起来像卡通穴居人，而不是坚称尼安德特人是一些失败的进化产物。

'Til then: it seems that old stereotype about Neandertals being brutish cave dwellers is already critically endangered. If not extinct.

看起来人认为尼安德特人是“粗野穴居人”这一刻板印象会“极度濒危”，即使没有灭绝的话。

Now, one of the more exciting things to be found recently is that Neanderthals and Homosapiens frequently mated with each other.

最近一个比较有趣的新就是尼安德塔人（穴居人）与智人（代人类祖先）常会与彼此交配。

New evidences suggest that our closest extinct relatives the Neanderthals used doses themselves with medicinal plants while they felt unwell.

有新证据显示，人类的近亲穴居人在身体不适时会自己使用草药。

Marsha, these are cave people. Okay? They have issues like 'Gee, that glacier's getting kinda close.' See?

Marsha，他是穴居人，他关心的问题是冰河愈来愈接近了，懂吗?