粗壮南猿以前的人科成员具有简单工具行为的能力。
The early hominid, which antedate the appearence of Australopithecus robustus in the archaeological record, engaged in simple tool behavior.
达特给化石命名为非洲南猿,意即“南非类人猿”。
Dart christened the fossil Australopithecus Africanus, meaning the "Southern African ape".
因为他们粗壮的体型而被考古学者称为粗壮型南猿。
These people are called ' Robust ' by archaeologists because of their heavy-boned physique.
同行们认为戈纳石器的制造者是南猿,但哈里斯却不同意。
Colleagues suggest that the toolmakers of Gona were Australopithecus, but Harris thinks not.
这种方法可以精确地运用于所有灵长类。德西尔瓦有一打南猿头骨可供他分析。
That can be done very accurately for all primates, and DeSilva was able to analyze a dozen Australopithecus skulls.
他们发现源泉种的脑尺寸与其它南猿一样,但是其形状则更像人类的大脑。
They found that its size was on a par with other australopithecines, but its shape was more like that of a human brain.
所有这些使得源泉种比其它南猿,甚至比能人更像现代人类,直到现在有人把源泉种视为最早的人类成员之一。
All of which makes sediba more similar to modern humans than are other australopithecines—and more similar, even, than Homo habilis, until now seen as one of the earliest humans.
露西属于南猿亚科(Australopithecusafarensis),其残骸于1974年在埃塞俄比亚的另一个发掘点出土。
The remains of Lucy, who belongs to the species Australopithecus afarensis, were uncovered in another part of Ethiopia in 1974.
德西尔瓦说,即使存在着一定幅度的误差,结果还是很明显,南猿幼儿的出生重量更接近于现代人类,即占母体重量的6%,而不是类人猿的3%。
Even with that margin of error, DeSilva says, it was clear that the birth weight of Australopithecus infants was much closer to the 6 percent of modern humans than the 3 percent of apes.
大多数科学家认为地猿卡达巴只不过是地猿始祖种的一个“年代种(chronospecies)”,二者之间存在的某种亲缘关系,就如同南猿湖畔种与南猿阿法种之间的相互联系:同一基本方案的一个较早期版本。
kadabba to be a "chronospecies" of Ar. ramidus, bearing the same relationship to it that Au.
大多数科学家认为地猿卡达巴只不过是地猿始祖种的一个“年代种(chronospecies)”,二者之间存在的某种亲缘关系,就如同南猿湖畔种与南猿阿法种之间的相互联系:同一基本方案的一个较早期版本。
kadabba to be a "chronospecies" of Ar. ramidus, bearing the same relationship to it that Au.
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