我们正在解决的可能是我们所知的人类进化过程中缺失最大的一环。
We're dealing with probably the biggest missing link in what we know about human evolution.
和动物一样，人类进化出了一套复杂的机制，来处理有关潜在威胁的信息。
Like animals, humans evolved with an elaborate mechanism for processing information about potential threats.
首先，它提供了关于人类进化方式的重要信息——仅从出土文物中很难获得这些信息。
Firstly, it provides vital information about the way that people evolved—information not always easily obtainable from excavated artefacts alone.
哭泣作为一种情感的表达是人类独有的，这在人类进化和人类文化的发展中发挥了重要的作用。
Crying as an expression of feeling is unique to humans and has played an essential role in human evolution and the development of human cultures.
随着科学家们对我们的基因进行更深入的研究，他们在过去的几千年里就发现了人类进化的例子。
As scientists look deeper into our genes, they are finding examples of human evolution in just the past few thousand years.
但哭泣作为一种情感的表达是人类独有的，这在人类进化和人类文化的发展中发挥了重要的作用。
But crying as an expression of feeling is unique to humans and has played an essential role in human evolution and the development of human cultures.
随机漂变对人类进化的作用的确巨大。
Random genetic drift has certainly played a big role in human evolution.
就人类进化问题我们有着一个巨大转变。
现代社会不过是人类进化屏幕上的一个点。
Modern society is a mere blip on the screen of human evolution.
寄生虫催使人类进化？
特里再大学里学人类进化学，而且成绩突出。
Terry was studying human evolution at the university. He excelled in his studies.
他的下一本书是关于人类进化引起的哲学问题。
His next book is on philosophical questions arising out of human evolution.
烹饪在人类进化过程中起到的作用。
史上最伟大的展示：人类进化演变的迹象。
人体上的虱子物种反映了猿和人类进化历程的分节点。
Species of human lice thus mirror the splits in the tree of ape and human evolution.
更特别的是，有些东西在人类进化后，对我们很危险。
More particularly, these are things that through the course of human evolution have been dangerous to us.
这带出了人类进化可能在文化的频繁变化影响下在最近加速了。
This raises the possibility that human evolution has been accelerating in the recent past under the impact of rapid shifts in culture.
利奇的一个研究兴趣即是野生黑猩猩，以探究人类进化的历史。
One of Leakey's interests was to study wild chimpanzees to gain insight into the evolutionary past of humans.
不过，人类进化另有途径，只不过并不受科学界和小说界的赏识。
There is, however, another avenue for human evolution, one mostly unappreciated in both science and fiction.
要是得到证实的话，这将是关于人类进化我们了解到的最新例子。
This, if confirmed, would be the most recent known instance of human evolution.
这个多国研究团队指望从人类进化的角度寻找和早产有关的基因。
The international team of researchers looked to human evolution in their hunt for genes linked to premature births.
直接研究人类进化很明显是不可能的，代代延续的时间花费太久。
Studying human evolution directly is obviously impossible. The generation times are far too long.
已经当上祖父的他把互联网进化和人类进化进行了对比。
Having just become a grandfather, he drew a parallel between the evolution of the web and human development.
研究提出的观点是善良是生物体的一部分，是人类进化必须的因素。
The research informs a perspective that compassion is part of our biology and is necessary for human evolution.
当然，作为人类进化的遗产之一，现代人因而常容易发胖。
Of course, a legacy of evolution is that modern humans often gain too much weight.
文化，这个因素对人类进化很重要，但是对其它生物来说没多大影响。
For this article, I'm ignoring the possibility of evolution through non-genetic means, such as culture, which though important for humans is irrelevant for most other organisms.
她说：患有孤独症的人们在人类进化和文化方面一直扮演着重要的角色。
She said: "People with autism have played a vital role in human evolution and culture."
但他们对人类进化是如何进行的提出了问题，为什么这些解剖特点改变了？
But they pose questions about what were the transitions in human evolution, why did those anatomical features change?
这真是个不幸的事实：在人类进化的同时，我们花费了大量的时间相互厮杀。
It's a sad fact that while humans have been evolving, we've spent a fair amount of time killing each other.
最新的研究把重点放在研究人类进化最有说服力的结构部位：脑，骨盆，手和脚。
The new studies centre on the most telling bits of anatomy in the story of human evolution: the brain, pelvis, hands and feet.
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