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.
曼彻斯特大学的进化生物学家苏珊娜·舒尔茨博士说,这项研究是值得称赞的,它试图丰富我们对人类语言进化的知识。
Dr. Susanne Shultz, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Manchester, said the study was praiseworthy in seeking to enrich our knowledge of the evolution of human language.
他们主要是希望说明,达尔文最初的起点之一是人类为何会分化出不同"种族",远非通过对自然历史的研究发现了人类进化理论。
Their thesis is that, far from arriving at the idea of human evolution from his studies of natural history, Darwin took as one of his starting points the diversification of humanity into "races".
人类学家首次发现人类家族进化史上有另一个新成员存在,这个发现来源于对古代基因序列而不是骨化石的研究。
A new member of the human evolutionary family has been proposed for the first time based on an ancient genetic sequence, not fossil bones.
但是,根据《进化》杂志刊登的一项研究,城市生活也可影响人类基因,使得古城居民的后代对疾病更具抵抗力。
But urban life may have also influenced human genes, making the descendants of ancient city dwellers more resistant to disease. That's according to a study in the journal Evolution.
从人类学,灵长类动物学,认知科学和心理学到古生物学,考古学,进化生物学和基因学,人们对人类属性的研究包括很多领域。
The study of our human nature encompasses a variety of fields ranging from anthropology, primatology, cognitive science and psychology to paleontology, archaeology, evolutionary biology and genetics.
而且近代人类进化的研究也表明人类最近的几次基因改变正是处于对这些疾病的反应。
Moreover, studies of modern human evolution suggest that several recent genetic changes are responses to such diseases.
美国科学家最近发表的一份研究结果显示,吃肉这一习惯对人类身体的进化过程产生了巨大的影响。
Meat-eating has impacted the evolution of the human body, scientists reported today at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in Washington, d.c..
有了计算机的帮助,基因组学的研究人员能够预测基因的位置,并且比较两种基因组,比如黑猩猩与人类的基因组,以确定对进化具有重要意义的基因序列——进而获得关于基因组如何工作的新见解。
With their help, genomics researchers predict gene locations and compare, say, chimp and human genomes to identify sequences of evolutionary importance-deriving new insights about how genomes work.
最近对黑猩猩的研究结果为人类语言的进化理论提供了支持。
Recent research with chimps provides support for theories of how language evolved in humans.
该研究支持了这种想法:关系密切的人类群体对身心健康是非常有益的。而且也揭示了人类祖先群居生活的进化进程。
The research supports the idea that close human groups are good for mental and physical wellbeing and sheds light on when group-living might have evolved among our ancestors.
染色体是继线粒体之后的研究人类进化的又一热点,通过对其上的多态性位点研究也证实了非洲起源说。
Y chromosome is another focus of human evolutionary studies after mitochondrial DNA, which has also approved the "out of Africa" hypothesis.
另一方面,他学习了人类是从猿进化而来的并对研究人类进化非常感兴趣。
On the other hand, he had learned that man has evolved from the ape and he had great interest in studying the evolution of man.
高级心理学讲师伯克总结道:“家已经从进化角度对人类面部魅力特征进行了广泛的研究。”
Burke, a senior psychology lecturer, said: "Human facial attractiveness from an evolutionary perspective has been extensively studied."
高级心理学讲师伯克总结道:“家已经从进化角度对人类面部魅力特征进行了广泛的研究。”
Burke, a senior psychology lecturer, said: "Human facial attractiveness from an evolutionary perspective has been extensively studied."
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