而有强壮颌骨的动物,如大猩猩和猩猩,则适应吃那些需要很多咀嚼的食物。
Animals with robust jaws, like gorillas and orang-utans, have long been known to be adapted to eating foods that require a lot of chewing.
因此,当有这些(强壮)颌骨的化石出土时,人们便认为这些生物也是吃较硬的食物。
So when fossils with these jaw structures have turned up, it had been assumed that the creatures were eating tough foods too.
伯格尔博士和他的同事们在论文中写道,这块颌骨有一些类似人类的特征,然而,这并不表示这块颌骨的主人就必须是人类。
The jawbone has some human-like features, Dr. Berger and colleagues write, yet that does not mean the owner of the jawbone was necessarily human.
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