| 1. | " think of the robust australopithecines as having developed a variation on the theme of bipedalism , " schwartz said
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| 2. | They were knock - kneed . a group of species known as robust australopithecines lived about 2 million years ago
据“生活科学” 2月16日报道，粗壮型南猿robust australopithecines是生活在大约200万年之前的一个物种。 |
| 3. | A group of species known as robust australopithecines livedabout2 million years ago . compared to us , they had larger teeth and strongerchewingmuscles , a stouter skull with a smaller brain
和我们相比，他们拥有更大的牙齿和更为强壮的咀嚼肌，同时他们的头骨也更强壮一些但脑部较小。 |
| 4. | Furthermore , hominids this tiny were known only from fossils of australopithecines ( lucy and the like ) that lived nearly three million years ago ? long before the emergence of h . sapiens
此外，身材那麽矮小的人，都属于露西之类的南猿人，他们生活在300万年前，那时智人连个影子都没有。 |
| 5. | The bulk of the artifacts from liang bua are simple flake tools struck from volcanic rock and chert , no more advanced than the implements made by late australopithecines and early homo
梁布亚出土的石器，大部份是以火山岩与燧石打制的简单石片器，并不比晚期南猿人与早期人属物种制作的石器先进。 |
| 6. | " we noticed that in the specimens of robust australopithecines , there were characteristics of the anklebone that would have affected its bipedal locomotion , " said gary schwartz , an arizona state university anthropologist
此项研究的参与者美国亚利桑那州立大学的人类学家加里施瓦兹对此表示： “我们注意到，在粗壮型南猿的 |
| 7. | Those on the line leading to the robust australopithecines coped with this problem morphologically , evolving anatomical specializations that enabled them to subsist on more widely available , difficult - to - chew foods
粗壮南猿这一支，以形态来应付这个情势，他们演化出特化的解剖构造，方便他们采食分布较广却难以咀嚼的植物。 |
| 8. | The remains shed light on a little - understood but critical period in human evolution - - the transition from the more ape - like creatures known as australopithecines to the genus homo , of which modern humans are a member
它们的出现将人们的目光聚焦到人类进化史中一段鲜为人知但十分重要的阶段，即从古猿又称更新纪灵长动物，进化到人类的过程，其中包括现代人类。 |
| 9. | Human ancestors go back as far as 6 million years , fossilsshow . the genus homo arose at least 1 . 8 million years ago , scientistsbelieve , when australopithecines likely evolved intohumanancestors known as homo habilis , which had larger brains butnevergrew larger than a 12 - year - old child of today
报道说，施瓦兹和来自美国北伊利诺伊大学的丹盖博用各种原始人类的踝骨与现代大猩猩黑猩猩以及人类的踝骨进行了比较。 |
| 10. | Their feet were thought to be very much like ours , suggesting they had mastered bipedalism . " we noticed that in the specimens of robust australopithecines , there were characteristics of the anklebone that would have affected its bipedal locomotion , " said gary schwartz , an arizona state university anthropologist
此项研究的参与者美国亚利桑那州立大学的人类学家加里施瓦兹对此表示： “我们注意到，在粗壮型南猿的化石样本中，其踝骨的一些特性可能影响到了他们作为两足动物的运动。 |
