'We all thought the ancestral animal would look more like a chimp,' said Yale University anthropologist Andrew Hill.
耶鲁大学的人类学家希尔(Andrew Hill)说，我们本来都觉得老祖宗看上去会更像猩猩。
This ancestral species might have evolved at a time when the islands were connected.
这种祖先物种可能是在岛屿相连的时候进化而来的。
Perhaps that is why we explore the starry skies, as if answering a primal calling to know ourselves and our true ancestral homes.
也许这就是我们探索星空的原因，仿佛在回应一种原始的召唤，去了解我们自己和我们祖先真正的家园。
There's a lot of frying going on at this particular place and this is something that's not typical of ancestral human diets.
在这个地方，有很多油炸食品，但这不是我们祖先的日常饮食。
Founder mutations are a class of disease-causing genetic mutations, each derived from its own ancestral "founder" in whom the mutation originated.
创始者突变是一类引起疾病的基因突变，每一种都源自其自身祖先的“创始者”。
An ancestral species might have adapted to exploit a particular ecological niche on one island and then traveled over water to colonize other islands.
一个原始物种可能已经适应了利用一个岛屿上特定的生态位，然后在水上迁徙到其他岛屿定居。
We speak a decimal language because an ancestral tongue, proto-Indo-European, was decimally based.
我们说的是十进制的语言，这是因为我们的始祖语言——原始印欧语——是基于十进制的。
Free from the threat of cats, fairy terns have returned to the island—and forsaken their ancestral cliffs for a new life among the leaves and branches.
没有了猫的威胁，仙女般的燕鸥又返回到岛上。 但不像其祖先那样栖息在峭壁上，她们在大树的枝叶间开始了自己的新生活。
Australopithecus was a group of early hominids that is reckoned to be the ancestral genus of Homo, to which modern man belongs.
南方古猿是早期原始人类的一部分，被认为是祖先人种，现代人就由此而来。
The story ended badly, with the good doctor put to death as a traitor and Caroline Mathilde exiled to Hanover, the British monarchy's ancestral home.
这个故事结局很悲惨，一位好医生被冠以叛国罪而处死，卡罗琳•马蒂尔德被流放到英国君主制度祖先的家乡汉诺威。
Itself the remnant of a strange evolutionary event (the merger of an ancient bacterium with the cell ancestral to all plant and animal life), it also carries the imprint of more recent evolution.
它本身就是奇异的进化事件的遗迹(古代细菌和细胞—所有动植物的祖先细胞——的融合体)，同时，它还带着比较近期进化的印记。
The Bondegezou (" man of the forests ") is a legendary, ancestral spirit of the Moni people in Western Indonesia.
人熊(“树林里的人”)是西印度尼西亚moni人传说中的先祖之魂。
Each group carried only a subset of the genetic variation from its ancestral population.
每个族群只携带有他们祖先群体中遗传变异的一部分。
A fossil cannot be ancestral to something older than itself any more than a daughter can give birth to her own mother.
一块化石不可能衍生出比自身历史更长的东西，这就如同一个女儿不可能生下自己的母亲。
He had known he was different as a child growing up in Nakawala, his ancestral village; his twin brother, John, had noticed it too, and simply laughed when, after years, he came out to him.
他知道作为一名在他故乡那卡瓦拉村长大的孩子，他是与众不同的；他的双胞胎哥哥，约翰也注意到了这点，几年之后，他们再次见面时，他会心的笑了。
Aliens, or even just an alien probe, could have visited Earth long ago and inserted a message into some ancestral creature.
外星人，或仅仅是一架外星探测器，可能在很久前已访问过地球，并在一些古生物中注入了讯息。
But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit its new African surroundings.
但是它必须要作为一种新英语，始终与它的母国保持密切联系但同时发生变化来适应非洲土壤。
Scientists have also predicted, with mixed results, a preference for red among women, who would've needed to spot red berries against green foliage in our ancestral hunter-gatherer societies.
科学家也通过各种实验结果推测道，女士之所以喜欢红色是因为早在原始狩猎社会，她们需要用红色的浆果点缀绿色的树叶。
Maybe Archaeopteryx wasn't on the direct ancestral line to birds, but was part of an early experimentation in how to build a bird-like body.
可能‘始祖鸟’不在鸟类的直系血缘上，但它从某些程度上说是早期实验如何构建像鸟一样的身躯的一部分。
The scientists based this ancestral census on a reading of modern human genomes. In particular, they tracked the positions of transposable elements.
科学家们是解读现代人类基因组后得出这个远古数据的，他们还特别追踪了转位因子的位置。
But the syncytin genes we use today may have actually replaced an ancestral one that a virus bequeathed to the very first placental mammals.
但我们今天使用的合胞体蛋白基因可能实际上已取代了最初病毒传给第一个胎生哺乳动物的基因。
I recognise that in a genuine peace we'll be required to give up parts of the ancestral Jewish homeland.
我承认，为了获得真正的和平，要求我们放弃部分祖传的犹太故土。
My ancestral village, Dhanikhola, is several hours north of here, in a district called Mymensingh.
我的老家丹尼科拉村在北边一个叫美门沁的地方，离这里有几个小时路程。
The Territorial Alliance, a new group, wants to recover all the land south of the Bío-Bío river, the Mapuches’ ancestral homeland.
土地联盟——一个新兴组织，企图索取比奥比奥河南岸所有土地，这块区域是马普利人祖居之地。
The rest might be used for shopping malls and housing for India's swelling middle classes-hardly justification for a subsidy, let alone for occupying the ancestral lands of poor farmers.
剩余部分可能用于为印度急速增加的中产阶级提供大型购物中心及住房——这里几乎不存在提供补助的正当理由，更不用说占用穷苦农民的祖传土地的理由了。
In the New Nyanza provincial general hospital in Kisumu, the capital of the region which is home to Barack Obama's ancestral village, a woman gave birth to twins she named Obama and Michelle.
当天，在奥巴马祖辈生活过的新尼扬扎省的首府基木苏，一位母亲在当地的省立总医院生下一对龙凤胎，并给两个孩子取名为“奥巴马”和“米歇尔”。
When he made these 7 changes to the ancestral receptor, it behaved just like a new glucocorticoid receptor.
当研究人员改变早先的原始受体的这7个位点后，它就成为了一个新的糖皮质激素受体了。
The Chuseok festival, a harvest celebration, sees millions of people engage in a mass exodus back to their ancestral villages.
在秋夕，一个庆祝丰收的节日，上百万人加入了返乡祭祖的队伍之中。
The Chuseok festival, a harvest celebration, sees millions of people engage in a mass exodus back to their ancestral villages.
在秋夕，一个庆祝丰收的节日，上百万人加入了返乡祭祖的队伍之中。
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