岛屿分离后，孤立的蜥蜴种群将成为独特的物种，同时也保留了它们祖先的生态适应能力。
After the islands separated, the isolated lizard populations would have become distinct species while also retaining their ancestors' niche adaptations.
它不仅仅是一种标志，更是我们可以追溯到祖先的根源，是将我们与同族其他成员联系在一起的纽带，是大多数人希望为之而活的尊严。
Rather than merely a sign, it is the root from which we can trace back to our ancestor, the tie that helps bind us to other members of the same clan, the dignity most people hope to live for.
他们不再是一些小群体，而是居住在一个大型的社会中，有更加复杂精细的社会组织，可能是以拥有共同的祖先的氏族来划分群体。
They were no longer a series of small bands but lived in a large community with more elaborate social organization, probably grouped into clans of people of common descent.
对海南的黎族人和苗族人来说，这是一个纪念祖先的日子。
For the Li and Miao people in Hainan, it is a day for remembering ancestors.
在这一天，每家每户会带着鲜花、食物和酒来到祖先的墓地。
On this day, families bring flowers, food and wine to their ancestors' tombs.
史密斯表示，如果我们能重新发现亲手实践和手工劳作的价值，我们就能将我们现代的洞察力与我们祖先的心灵手巧结合起来。
If we can rediscover the values of hands-on experience and craftwork, Smith says, we can marry the best of our modern insights with the handiness of our ancestors.
这信念是我们祖先的永久的信念。
所以对苦的厌恶还可能挽救过我们祖先的生命呢。
So an aversion to bitter may have helped our ancestors survive.
科学家发现，与恐龙拥有共同祖先的短吻鳄也采用了鸟类的高效呼吸方式。
Scientists found that a method of high-efficiency breathing used by birds is also employed by today's alligators, which share a common ancestor with dinosaurs.
是的，我家是非常传统的。我们仍然以这种方式来表达对祖先的尊敬。
Yeah. My family is very traditional. We still do that and show respect for our ancestors.
在不同文化、不同信仰的人们同迎虎年的时刻，让我们感激我们的家人，感恩祖先的智慧，感谢我们的亲朋好友与左邻右舍的相伴。
As people of all cultures and faiths welcome the Year of the Tiger, let us all give thanks for family, the wisdom of our ancestors, and the company of our friends and neighbors.
这幅漫画是为了提醒我们今天的幸福生活和宝贵的民族遗产归功于我们祖先的奋斗，而我们，反过来，也要努力劳动来确保我们后代的幸福和平安。
The pictures serve to remind us that the existence of our current happiness and valuable national heritage is due to the struggles of our predecessors.
埃塞俄比亚的中阿瓦什（MiddleAwash）是地球上最早有人类活动的地区，我们祖先的一支曾在此生息繁衍，并深埋于此600万年之久。
The Middle Awash area of Ethiopia is the most persistently occupied place on Earth. Members of our lineage have lived, died, and been buried there for almost six million years.
鳞片和羽毛都是扁平的，因此有可能鸟类祖先的鳞片经过多代繁衍之后渐渐延展开来，之后其边缘出现绽裂和缺口，于是鳞片进化成为第一缕真正意义上的羽毛。
So perhaps the scales of the birds' ancestors had stretched out, generation after generation. Later their edges could have frayed and split, turning them into the first true feathers.
阿迪化石的发现为研究最早期人类祖先的进化过程提供了极重要线索，那个时期的人类祖先生活在进化之路的分岔口，一条路通向人类，另一条路则通向黑猩猩类。
The discovery of Ardi provides vital clues about the earliest human ancestor that lived at the fork in the evolutionary road that led to humans on one side and chimps on the other.
八十七年之前，我们的祖先在这大陆上建立了一个国家。
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation.
带着祖先赐予我的礼物。
直至500多年前，我们的祖先还在冶炼、经济、数学、航海、陶瓷、丝织等诸多方面引领着这个世界。
Up till 500 years ago, our ancestors still led advancements in fields of metallurgy, economics, mathematics, nautical navigation, ceramics and silk.
帕特尔说：“连达尔文都提到，在我们能清楚地讲话之前，我们的祖先就会唱情歌传情达意了”。
Even Charles Darwin "talked about our ancestors singing love songs to each other before we could speak articulate language," Patel says.
与比他们更远古的祖先不同，直立人已经学会狩猎、制造工具，甚至已经学会用火。
Unlike earlier ancestors, these hunted, made tools and even used fire.
我的祖先在马背上讨生活。
尽管这类说法全是凭空杜撰，但真相极为奇特，我们可以原谅祖先们的误解。
While these assertions are pure myth, the truth is strange enough that we can forgive our ancestors their misconceptions.
我和我爱吃蔬菜的祖先又重新相连了。
在四月五号，家家都要去祭拜祖先，为离世的亲人扫墓。
Families will visit their ancestors' graves and clean up the tombs during the Qing Ming Festival which falls on April 5.
换句话说，正是那次流星撞击为我们的祖先铺设了一条道路，慢慢走出洞穴，最终使得人类登上了历史舞台。
In other words, the meteorite strike helped pave the way for those ancestors eventually to emerge from their burrows so that mankind could take centre stage.
换句话说，正是那次流星撞击为我们的祖先铺设了一条道路，慢慢走出洞穴，最终使得人类登上了历史舞台。
In other words, the meteorite strike helped pave the way for those ancestors eventually to emerge from their burrows so that mankind could take centre stage.
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