Why did Neanderthals become extinct?
为什么尼安得塔人会灭绝呢？
Research suggests humans, Neanderthals interbred.
研究证实人类和尼安德特人有过杂交。
The stone tool made by Neanderthals suggests otherwise.
尼安德特人制造的石制工具却表明了另一种情况。
There has been much speculation about Neanderthals' ability to speak.
关于尼安德特人讲话的能力还有很多推测。
But some regard this discovery as evidence that Neanderthals could speak.
但是一些人认为这一发现同样是尼安德特人能够说话的证据。
Neanderthals, our ancestors and other archaic human species probably overlapped.
尼安德特人，我们的祖先智人，以及其他远古的人种们的历史可能会有交集。
Finlayson does not rule out the possibility that Neanderthals and H. sapiens met.
Finlayson并没有否定尼安德特人与智人相遇的可能性。
Neanderthals lived in Europe and western Asia from 400,000 to some 30,000 years ago.
在大约400,000到30,000年前尼安德特人生活在欧洲和西亚。
Neanderthals lived in Europe and western Asia from 400, 000 to some 30, 000 years ago.
在大约400,000到30,000年前尼安德特人生活在欧洲和西亚。
If Neanderthals were on those islands, scientists reason, they must have gotten there by boat.
科学家认为，如果尼安得特人曾经在那些岛上出现过，那么他们一定是乘船去的。
And, according to new research, Neanderthals likely took to the seas long before modern humans.
并且，根据新的研究，尼安得特人可能比现代人早很多就懂得航海了。
The team estimates Denisovans split from the parent group of Neanderthals about 350, 000 years ago.
小组估计，丹尼索万人于大约35万年前从尼安德特人的祖辈中分离出来。
One of science's most puzzling mysteries - the disappearance of the Neanderthals - may have been solved.
科学上最令人迷惑的疑团之一，尼安德特人(穴居人)的消失，有可能得到解答。
At some point afterward, the ancestors of Neanderthals spread to Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia.
此后的某个时刻，尼安德特人的祖先扩散到欧洲、中东和中亚地区。
Scientists suspect that Neanderthals and Denisovans were not the only extinct races our ancestors interbred with.
科学家怀疑尼安德特人和丹尼索瓦人不是仅有的我们祖先与之混交而后灭绝的人种。
By 35,000 years ago the Neanderthals, a sub-species of human whose own origins were in Africa, were mostly extinct.
到35,000年前，尼安德特人这一起源于非洲的人类亚种几乎已经绝迹。
Neanderthals are believed to be modern humans' closest ancestor, and some scientists view both as the same species.
尼安·德塔人被认为是现代人最接近的远祖，有些科学家甚至把两者看做是同一个物种。
By 35, 000 years ago the Neanderthals, a sub-species of human whose own origins were in Africa, were mostly extinct.
到35,000年前，尼安德特人这一起源于非洲的人类亚种几乎已经绝迹。
Neanderthals turn out to have the same version of FOXP2 as Homo sapiens (and thus a different one from chimpanzees).
尼安德特人同人类有同样版本的FOXP2(然而在猩猩中却又不同)。
It remains uncertain how long we interacted with Neanderthals because when and how they went extinct is still debated.
至今不确定我们与尼安德特人有过多长时间的互动，因为关于他们何时及怎样灭绝的问题仍处于争论中。
We ate our picnic lunch on the lawn of the museum, and then plunged in again for birds and alligators and Neanderthals.
我们在博物馆的草坪上野餐，午饭后，又一头扎进去，去看鸟类短吻鳄和穴居人。
For example, a group in Spain published a paper this week analyzing the DNA from 12 Neanderthals found in a single cave.
例如，西班牙的一个团体这个星期发布了一份报告，分析了来自一个洞穴的12个尼安·德塔人的DNA。
The inhabitants, apparently Neanderthals, selectively used pine for heating in preference to more available types of wood.
棚屋居民很显然是尼安德特人，他们选择性地使用松木取暖，而不使用其他更易采集的木材。
Dr Paabo's research suggests precisely that: the FOXP2 genes from modern humans and Neanderthals are essentially the same.
Drpaabo研究明确地表明：现代人的FOXP2基因和尼安德特人本质上相同。
The fossil evidence shows that Neanderthals were restricted to Europe and Asia, whereas Homo sapiens originated in Africa.
化石证据表明，尼安德特人只存在于欧洲和亚洲，而人类则起源于非洲。
They were much stronger than modern humans, but it's long been assumed that human ancestors were smarter than the Neanderthals.
他们比现代人类强壮得多，但长期以来，人们一直认为人类祖先比尼安德特人更聪明。
The Neanderthals lived alongside human ancestors in Europe for tens of thousands of years, before dying out about 40,000 years ago.
尼安德特人与人类祖先一起在欧洲生活了数万年，直到大约4万年前灭绝。
Taking things one step farther, Riel-Salvatore theorizes that modern humans did not kill off Neanderthals, as researchers previously thought.
更进一步，里尔-萨尔瓦多的理论说现代人类没有像研究人员先前认为的那样， 灭绝了尼安德特人。
Taking things one step farther, Riel-Salvatore theorizes that modern humans did not kill off Neanderthals, as researchers previously thought.
更进一步，里尔-萨尔瓦多的理论说现代人类没有像研究人员先前认为的那样， 灭绝了尼安德特人。
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