对人类种群起源和分布的研究曾是基于考古和化石证据。
Study of the origins and distribution of human populations used to be based on archaeological and fossil evidence.
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。
The fossil evidence shows that Neanderthals were restricted to Europe and Asia, whereas Homo sapiens originated in Africa.
化石证据显示，中小型动物比较大型物种更有可能在大灭绝中幸存下来。
Fossil evidence suggests that small and medium sized animals were more likely to survive the mass extinction than larger species.
这是科学家们首次能使用直接的化石证据对恐龙的颜色作出合理的解读。
For the first time, scientists were able to use direct fossil evidence to make a reasonable interpretation of a dinosaur's color.
科学家早已知道恐龙是蛋掠夺者，新近的化石证据表明哺乳动物也吃年幼的恐龙。
Scientists have long known that some dinosaurs were egg snatchers, and recent fossil evidence suggests mammals also dined on young dinosaurs.
自从达尔文提出他的理论，科学家们就试图寻找化石证据来表明以前的过渡有机体。
Since Darwin put forth his theory, scientists have sought fossil evidence indicating past organic transitions.
这个“二人组”就成了已知最古老的化石证据，来支持无气门亚目一类螨虫的搭便车现象，或称寄载现象。
That makes the duo the oldest known fossil evidence of hitch-hiking behavior, or phoresy, in a large group of mites called the Astigmata.
据最新发现的化石证据表明，早期人类可能在踏上走出非洲的史诗性旅程之前，早已先绕道进入过欧亚大陆。
Early humans may have taken a detour into Eurasia before embarking on their epic journey out of Africa, according to new fossil evidence.
根据其他化石证据显示，绮纹阔头蜥必须在恐龙、翼龙、巨大而状似鳄鱼的植龙，以及早期哺乳类等掠食者的夹缝间求生存。
Other fossils show that it lived alongside predators like dinosaurs, pterosaurs, massive crocodile-like reptiles called phytosaurs, and early mammals.
但由于缺少决定性的化石证据，关于这种灵长类动物是否是两足动物——以及她在人类的家族树中究竟占据什么位置——存在着许多猜测。
But lack of definitive fossil evidence has many guessing whether this primate was really a biped-and just where she might fit on the human family tree.
语言表现形式是无穷无尽的。因而对与语言行为的化石证据——即和语法句法有关的基因——的搜寻，足够科学家们忙上几十年了。
Language is nearly endless in its forms. So the search for its behavioral fossils-genes associated with grammar and syntax-should keep scientists busy for decades to come.
之后19万年的化石证据并不太多，但这些化石显示，人类在此期间依然身材高大、体格健壮。到了大约1万年前左右，许多人类种群的身材和脑容量都缩小了。
The fossil evidence for the next 190, 000 years is patchy, but shows that humans remained tall and robust until about 10, 000 years ago when many populations show reduced stature and brain size.
我们在化石记录中找到了这种扩展事件的证据，这让我们得以一窥先前一直持续不断的环境分裂现象。
We find evidence of such extended events in the fossil record, which affords glimpses into the breakup of formerly continuous environments.
最近发现的一个翼龙标本覆盖着长、密、相对厚的毛发状化石材料，这是第一个明确的证据，证明他的推理是正确的。
The recent discovery of a pterosaur specimen covered in long, dense, and relatively thick hairlike fossil material was the first clear evidence that his reasoning was correct.
在中国出土的有羽毛的恐龙化石为恐龙和鸟类之间的密切进化关系提供了迄今为止最引人注目的证据。
Unearthed in China, fossils of feathered dinosaurs offer the most dramatic evidence yet discovered of the close evolutionary relationship between dinosaurs and birds.
第三个化石地层中既有软体动物，也有硬体动物，为寒武纪大爆发的结果提供了证据。
The third fossil formation containing both soft-bodied and hard-bodied animals provides evidence of the result of the Cambrian explosion.
有强有力的证据表明，化石燃料价格的上涨有力地鼓励了清洁技术的创新和采用。
There is strong evidence that both innovation and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuel prices.
1840年至1880年间首次发现并研究了这种被称为蜥脚类动物的巨型食草恐龙的骨骼化石，为成年型恐龙的巨大特征提供了证据。
Fossil bones of the huge herbivorous dinosaurs known as sauropods were first discovered and studied between 1840 and 1880, providing evidence for the gargantuan dimensions of the adults.
2001年在查德北部久拉普沙漠出土的这个化石，似乎是我们至尽拥有的关于人类家族最古老的证据。
The fossil, found in 2001 in the Djurab Desert of northern Chad, appears to be the earliest evidence we have of the human family.
小恐龙的化石表明他们行动速度，但在它们大块头远亲中没有发现类似的证据。
Fossils of smaller dinosaurs indicate that they moved fast but there is no similar evidence for their bigger Cousins.
该组研究人员通过研究化石，发现了后肢长度和骨盆结构变化的证据，这种变化可能使某些黑猩猩更容易直立行走，就像在上述实验中观察到的那只一样。
In the fossil record, the research team found evidence of changes in leg length and pelvic structure that may have made it easier for some chimps, like the one in their study, to stand upright.
证据就存在于海洋泥土，花粉化石和记录温度变化的化学同位素比值变化之中。
The evidence lies in ocean mud, in fossil pollen, and in changes in ratio of chemical isotopes that record shifts in temperature.
而层叠岩石的化石被一些人认为是几十亿年前发生着同样过程的证据。
Fossil stromatolites are regarded by some people as evidence of the same thing having gone on billions of years ago.
化石记录向人们出示了已灭绝物种存在过的证据。
The fossil record showed evidence of life forms that no longer existed.
新的证明包括最近发现的支持进化论的证据，包括发现的一具重要的化石。
The new document includes recently discovered evidence supporting evolution, including an important fossil find.
它的证据主要来自化石遗迹，以及用来重建生物间联系的DNA比较。
Its evidence draws frequently from the fossil recordand DNA comparisons to reconstruct how various organisms may be related.
尽管祖格同意新化石是首例蛇吃恐龙的证据，他说这种行为不会使熟悉现代蛇行为方式的人震惊。
Though Zug agrees the new fossils are the first proof of snakes eating dinosaurs, he said the behavior wouldn't shock anyone familiar with the ways of modern snakes.
化石和其它大量证据证明，生物一直在进化。
The fossilrecord and abundant other evidence testify that organisms have evolvedthrough time.
一个解决它的途径就是从化石记录中寻找证据——现代人的近亲到底能做什么？
One way of trying to answer it is to look in the fossil record for evidence about what modern humanity's closest relatives could do.
自那时起，科学家陆续找到了化石和分子水平的证据，以及通过能量分析来解释这一进化过程，但是尚未达到完全理解的程度。
Since then, scientists have found clues to explain these animal transitions in the fossil and molecular records, as well as in energetic analyses, but the full story is yet to be discovered.
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