唉,只可惜博斯科普人没有机会漫步巴黎的林荫大道了!
Alas, if only the Boskop had had the chance to stroll a Parisian boulevard!
也许博斯科普人的痕迹、他们的特殊气质,仍然存在于世界上某个孤立的角落。
Maybe traces of Boskops, and their unusual nature, linger on in isolated corners of the world.
我们目前可以看到的报告上,博斯科普头骨的脑容积从1650到1900cc不等。
We have seen reports of Boskop brain size ranging from 1, 650 to 1, 900 cc.
苏格兰科学家罗伯特·布鲁姆在报告中称:“我们重测修正后的博斯科普头骨脑容积达到了惊人了1980cc。”
The Scottish scientist Robert Broom reported that “we get for the corrected cranial capacity of the Boskop skull the very remarkable figure of 1, 980 cc.”
当你自己的前额叶区域将一系列视觉材料形成记忆时,博斯·科普人种可能已经在里面添加了声音、气味等等更为丰富的信息。
While your own prefrontal area might link a sequence of visual material to form an episodic memory, the Boskop may have added additional material from sounds, smells, and so on.
如果博斯·科普人具有更长的皮层网络系统,思路更为深远,他们的逻辑链也就会更长、更复杂。
If Boskops had longer chains of cortical networks-longer mental assembly lines-they would have created longer and more complex classification chains.
如果这一推论正确,那么博斯·科普人种将不不仅有一颗令人印象深刻的大脑袋,他们还将拥有大的不可思议的前额叶皮层。
If these principled relations among brain parts hold true, then Boskops would have had not only an impressively large brain but an inconceivably large prefrontal cortex.
如果一间教室里坐着35个大脑袋娃娃脸的博斯·科普小孩儿,那么其中至少会有五六个智商高于人类有史以来记录的最高智商。
In a classroom with 35 big-headed, baby-faced Boskop kids, you would likely encounter five or six with IQ scores at the upper range of what has ever been recorded in human history.
看来,博斯·科普头骨里的那个大脑要比我们自己的大脑大差不多25%。
The Boskop skull, it would seem, housed a brain perhaps 25 percent or more larger than our own.
而博斯·科普头骨的脸只占整个颅骨大小的五分之一,接近于儿童的水平。
Boskop has a face that takes up only about one-fifth of his cranium size, closer to the proportions of a child.
那时候,古生物学家和人类学研究领域的领军人物经常谈论博斯·科普头骨,也常常会在他们的书里提到博斯·科普头骨。
Boskops, then, were much talked and written about, by many of the most prominent figures in the fields of paleontology and anthropology.
缺乏外部社会文化的硬盘,博斯·科普人就无法利用他们复杂皮层中所蕴含的潜力。
Lacking the external hard drive of a literate society, the Boskops were unable to exploit the vast potential locked up in their expanded cortex.
博斯·科普人曾与我们的智人祖先和平共处。
博斯·科普人曾与我们的智人祖先和平共处。
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