一些学者认为人类和猿的分化出现在一千五百万到两千万年前。
The split between humans and living apes is thought by some scholars to have occurred 15 to 20 million years ago.
新的发现物加深了我们对巨猿的认识。
它的类似猿的特征很清楚地在朝着人类方面演变。
The ape like features are clearly altered in the direction of humanness.
但是，与人类不同，无尾猿的脚以及手，都有可以与其他手指相对的大拇指。
But unlike man, the ape has opposable thumbs on its feet as well as on its hands.
巨猿的枕骨大孔更靠近头骨后部，但包括图迈在内的人科动物的枕骨大孔更靠近头骨前部。
But in hominids - including Toumai - it is placed more towards the front of the skull.
史蒂文斯是动物园中灵长类动物的管理员，在她听来，动物园中6只长臂猿的叫声几乎一样。
Stevens, the zoo's curator of primates, says the songs of the six gibbons living there are very similar.
330万年前，我们祖先的舌骨与今天猿的舌骨形状类似，这表明那时候他们已经拥有气囊了。
Our ancestors from 3.3million years ago had hyoids that were similar in shape to those of today’s apes, suggesting they too had air sacs.
330万年前，我们祖先的舌骨与今天猿的舌骨形状类似，这表明那时候他们已经拥有气囊了。
Our ancestors from 3.3million years ago had hyoids that were similar in shape to those of today's apes, suggesting they too had air sacs.
对于这一研究结果，斯蒂文斯并不感到惊奇，因为大家已经知道来自不同区域的长臂猿的毛色及纹理并不相同。
Stevens was not surprised at the study's results, because regional variation in color and pattern of gibbon coats has already been established.
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.
但在发掘她时没有发现她的脚骨，因此研究者一直在争论她是否真的像现代人类一样行走，亦或仍然保留着类似于猿的利于攀爬的介于行走和爬行之间的移动方式。
But she was found without her foot bones, so researchers have debated whether she walked as we do or retained some apelike adaptations for climbing in trees that altered her gait.
艾滋病被认为起源于非洲，那里的黑猩猩和猿携带了一种类似HIV的病毒，叫SIV(猴免疫缺陷病毒)。
AIDS is thought to have originated in Africa, where monkeys and apes harbor a virus similar to HIV called SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus).
亚特兰大市埃默里大学耶基斯国家灵长动物研究中心的弗兰斯·德瓦尔称，这强有力地证明了在进化史上，猿和人的笑声密切相关。
It gives strong evidence that ape and human laughter are related through evolution, said Frans DE Waal of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta.
当人类首次作为一个物种出现时，他们与许多种类的猿分享了这个星球。
When humans first emerged as a species they Shared the planet with many types of ape.
猿主要分布在非洲和亚洲的热带森林。
Apes live primarily in the tropical forests of Africa and Asia.
换句话说，博纳病毒在约4千万年前首次入侵了人类、猿和猴子的共同祖先。
In other words, borna virus first invaded the common ancestor of humans, apes and monkeys about 40 million years ago.
长臂猿是6%的终生配偶制灵长类之一(图中一只雌猿正在为雄猿梳理)。
Gibbons are among the 6 percent of primates that mate for life (pictured, a female gibbon grooms a male).
“我们对长臂猿叫声的理解还只是冰山一角，”她说道。
"We're just scratching the surface of the information that they're communicating in gibbon calls," she said.
金刚是一只来自头骨岛的虚构的巨猿，出现在1933年以来的多部作品中。
King Kong is the fictional giant ape from Skull Island. The ape has appeared in many works since 1933.
但上半身的一些特征，包括肩胛骨和胳膊更象猿。
But some of the features from the upper part of the body, including the shoulder blade and arms are more ape-like.
从猿到人的转变是通过劳动得以实现的。
原始人类中任何一个灭绝的猿物种和我们的关系都比黑猩猩更密切。
A hominid is really any extinct ape more closely related to us than the chimpanzee.
人，这个原本称作“裸猿”（the naked ape）的族类，才能丢下石头操纵光电，才能高声呐喊“生而平等”。
Human, as was called the naked ape originally, can then get rid of stone and manipulate light and electricity, and exclaim “everyone is born equal.
化石猎人首次得以瞥见这个新物种是在1992年，当时他们在阿拉米斯村附近沙漠的砾石中发现了一颗属于阿迪猿系猿人的牙齿。
Fossil hunters first glimpsed the new species in 1992 when a tooth belonging to Ardipithecus was spotted among pebbles in the desert near Aramis.
不过，当与其母亲分开时，幼年的黑猩猩和猿会啜泣和尖叫，难道我们不能带点把握地说，它们是在哭泣吗？
But what about when a baby chimp or ape whimpers and screams as it's being separated from its mother, couldn't we say with some certainty that the animal is crying?
因此，就算我们能够带点把握地说猿是有情感的动物，但他们的情感在多大程度上与人类相似，这还是一个有待于进一步考证的问题。
So even if apes can be said with some certainty to be feeling emotions, then there is the problem of figuring out to what extent what they feel resembles what humans feel.
在此项案例中，被实验的动物是狐猴——这是一种与猴子和猿有关的灵长目动物。
In this case, the animals were lemurs –a type of primate related to monkeys and apes.
作为一名专注于猿类和猴子研究的动物学家，我一直在研究为什么人类会进化成裸猿，以及为什么世界各地的人们皮肤会有这么多不同的色调。
As a zoologist focusing on the studies of apes and monkeys, I've been studying why humans evolved to become the naked ape, and why skin comes in so many different shades around the world.
作为一名专注于猿类和猴子研究的动物学家，我一直在研究为什么人类会进化成裸猿，以及为什么世界各地的人们皮肤会有这么多不同的色调。
As a zoologist focusing on the studies of apes and monkeys, I've been studying why humans evolved to become the naked ape, and why skin comes in so many different shades around the world.
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