Australopithecenes were apelike creatures that walked upright, like people, but had still not forsaken the trees.

南方古猿是似类人猿动物，它们能像人一样直立行走，但仍然没有离开树木。

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A cast of the inside of the skull shows an apelike brain, but one that had taken the first step toward being reorganized on human lines.

头骨的内部形状表明了这是一个类人猿的大脑，但是这个大脑已经向人类重组的大脑迈出了第一步。

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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.

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。

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These curious hominids lived about two million years ago in an era that scientists consider the crucible of human evolution, when four or more apelike hominid species struggled for survival in Africa.

WSJ: Creature Combined Human, Ape Traits

In six research papers published in Science, an international team described how the hominids had almost-human hands attached to apelike arms, a rib cage that was narrow like an ape's at the top but more humanlike lower down, and a spine that likely had the same number of vertebrae as a human.

WSJ: Creature Combined Human, Ape Traits