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.
假如我们能够备存纪录数百万年之久,可能我们会把猴子和猿也视作表兄妹。
If we could keep records across millions of years, we might want to count monkeys and apes as our Cousins too.
这项发现已经导致一些疟疾专家提出,如果在猴子和猿之间能发生转移,那么猴子到人的传染可能正在发生。
The finding has led some malaria experts to suggest that if transfer between monkeys and apes has occurred then monkey -to-human malaria transmission may already be happening.
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