该研究小组将这种新的古人类命名为地猿始祖种（Ardipithecusramidus）(Ardi在阿法尔语中有“地面”或“地板”的意思，ramid则有“根”的意思）。
The team would give the new hominid the name Ardipithecus ramidus. (Ardi means "ground" or "floor" in Afar, and ramid, "root.")
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.
婴儿与儿童（图片上部）时期人类大脑皮层区域的扩展，与人类大脑较之猿与猴类大脑在脑区上的变化（图片下部）紧密地吻合。
Areas of expansion in the human cortex during infancy and childhood, top, closely match areas of change in the human brain when compared to the brains of apes and monkeys.
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.
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.
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WCS的部分资金支持下，野生动物学家卡什·米拉·卡卡蒂(Kashmira Kakati)一直在对Jeypore - Dehing雨林的长臂猿进行研究。由于自己持续观察的这一地区出现了捕猎者的踪迹，卡卡蒂开始感到忧虑。
Partly funded by WCS, wildlife biologist Kashmira Kakati had been studying the gibbons of Jeypore-Dehing and became curious about the predator tracks she kept finding on the ground.
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.
一些藤本植物在研究地分布广泛，可能是黑长臂猿食物资源的主要组成部分。
Some liana, widely distributed in the study area, was possibly the major food resource of black crested gibbon.
很多巨大的无尾猿都出现在该清单上，因为它们的栖息地不断处于来自人类的活动威胁下。
Many great apes end up on the list, as their habitat is continually under threat from human activities.
在浓密的没有边际的森林里，野象和野牛惬意地漫步，孔雀舒展着美丽的羽毛，长臂猿穿行其中，犀鸟轻轻耳语。
Within thick and boundless forests wild elephants and wild oxen ramble about, with peacocks in their pride, gibbons at play, and hornbills whispering.
寂静不时地被长臂猿的尖叫声划破。
Ever and anon the stillness is rent by the scream of a gibbon.
巨猿为什么会灭绝，没有人确切地知道。但是有一种合理的猜测：我们人类。
Why it went extinct no one knows for sure, but a reasonable guess is: us.
巨猿为什么会灭绝，没有人确切地知道。但是有一种合理的猜测：我们人类。
Why it went extinct no one knows for sure, but a reasonable guess is: us.
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