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neanderthal adj.【人類】尼安得特爾人的。

neanderthal man

And in a paper just published in current anthropology , steven kuhn and mary stiner of the university of arizona propose that this division of labour happened early in the species ' history , and that it is what enabled modern humans to expand their population at the expense of neanderthals 亞利桑那大學的斯蒂芬?庫恩和瑪麗?斯蒂娜最近在《當代人類學》上發表論文指出:發生在現代人類史早期的這次分工使他們能夠繁衍更多的后代,而這是以侵占尼人的生存空間為代價的。

In his new book “ the singing neanderthals : the origins of music , language , mind , and body “ harvard university press , 2006 , mithen contends that because of their communication powers , dance and music likely became an important tool of social interaction as soon as humans could walk and talk 在他的新書唱歌的穴居人:音樂語言思想及身體的起源中,米森還提出,由于舞蹈和音樂所具有的交流的力量,在早期人類剛會行走和說話的時候,它們很可能就成為了一種社會交互作用的重要工具。

Rather than taking some 7 , 000 years to colonize europe from africa , the reinterpreted data shows the process may only have taken 5 , 000 years , scientist paul mellars from cambridge university said in the science journal nature on wednesday . “ the same chronological pattern points to a substantially shorter period of chronological and demographic overlap between the earliest . modern humans and the last survivors of the preceding neanderthal populations , “ he wrote 據路透社2月23日報道,來自劍橋大學的科學家保羅米拉斯在最新一期的英國自然雜志上指出,用放射性碳測定年代的一項最新數據表明,人類祖先從非洲進入歐洲后,僅花費了5000年的時間就取代了歐洲早期居民尼安德特人,而不是傳統的理論所認為7000年。

The extinction of neanderthal man has been attributed variously to his having lower intelligence than modern humans , to worse language skills , to cruder tools , or even to the lack of a propensity for long - distance trade 結果眾說紛紜:有人認為他們不如現代人聰明,也有人認為他們的語言技能不如現代人完善[譯注1 ]或是工具不如現代人先進,甚至有人認為是因為他們不會跨地區貿易[譯注2 ] 。

The iberian peninsula ? now home to spain , portugal , and gibraltar ? was a final holdout for neandertals ( often spelled “ neanderthals “ ) as modern humans spread across the rest of europe and an ice age descended , a new study says 一份新的研究表明,伊比利亞半島-現屬西班牙和葡萄牙及直布羅陀-可能是尼安德安人最后活動的地區.那時冰河期結束,現代人種開始廣泛分布于歐洲的其它地區

“ i agree that the evidence still largely supports an influx of modern humans into europe , followed by the replacement of the neanderthals with , at most , a trivial amount of gene flow [ interbreeding ] between the populations , “ he said 他說: “我同意證據仍然主要支持現代人進入了歐洲,最多(的可能)是尼安得達人被隨之而來的人種間通婚的微量基因流替換了。 ”

Coming to you live from the picturesque neander valley just outside d sseldorf : an interviewer asks the 35 , 000 - year - old neanderthal man to justify the fact that his mere endurance is his sole claim to fame 一個3萬5千歲的尼安德特人從杜塞爾多夫城外的美麗的尼安德山谷來到現代社會,一個訪問者要求他證實他之所以能活這么久,僅僅是因為他渴望成名。

If scientists could recreate his genome , the strings of billions of letters that spell out how to build and run a neanderthal , they would be able to pinpoint the precise difference between the two species 如果科學家可以重構其基因組,一串可以拼出如何構建和運轉一個尼安德特人的數十億堿基序列,那么他們將可以查明這兩個物種之間的精確差異。

“ evidently the native neanderthal populations of europe succumbed much more rapidly to competition from the expanding biologically and behaviourally modern populations than previous estimates have generally assumed , “ mellars wrote 米拉斯說, “這個結論顯然說明,面對人類祖先的入侵,當時居住在歐洲的尼安德特人消亡的時間要更早。 ”

“ this could have delivered the coup de grace to the neanderthals in many parts of western and central europe in their economic and demographic competition with the incoming modern groups , “ he added 德國慕尼黑和美國賓西法尼亞的兩個科學小組也聲稱,根據從尼人上所取得的dna分析,其結果支持尼人是4萬年前滅絕的人類旁支的假說。

“ there are increasing indications that over many areas of europe , the final demise of the neanderthal populations may have coincided with the sudden onset of very much colder and drier climatic conditions , “ mellars wrote 他說, “越來越多的跡象表明,歐洲許多地區的尼安德特人的消亡大都與突如其來的寒冷和干燥氣候環境有關聯。

He said the invasion could have been helped by a major change in the climate which modern man would have been technologically and culturally better equipped to deal with than the more primitive neanderthals 他指出,現代人祖先取代尼安德特人的成動主要得利于當時氣候發生的變化,因為他們比遠古的尼安德特人更能應對惡劣的氣候。

Knowing me and seeing them is like witnessing some major evolutionary change take place in just 35 years , from the neanderthal harvard applicant of 1970 to today ' s fully evolved homo sapiens applicant 知道我,看看他們就好像正在目睹在僅僅35年就發生的某個重大演變的發生。從1970年穴居人的申請人,到如今發展成為智人的申請人。

Spanish investigators believe they may have found proof that neanderthal man reached europe from africa not just via the middle east but by sailing , swimming or floating across the strait of gibraltar 西班牙研究者相信他們發現的證據,證明尼安德塔人從非洲前往歐洲的方式不只是經過中東,也包括航海、游泳或漂過直布羅陀海峽。

Moreover , the inner - ear structure of homo heidelbergensis , an ancestor of neanderthals , shows that this species was highly sensitive to the frequencies of sound that are associated with speech 而且,現代海德堡人? ?尼安德特人的一種祖先? ?的內耳結構表明這種物種對能夠連成對話的聲音的頻率非常敏感。

Well - adapted to the cold climate of palaeolithic europe and western asia , neanderthals appear to have been the dominant hominid in the region until the emergence of anatomically modern humans 尼安德塔人成功適應了舊石器時代的歐洲和西亞,他們顯然是這個區域支配性的人類始祖,直到現代人類的出現。

And there are no bone awls or needles that would suggest that neanderthals were skilled leather workers , despite the abundance of animal skins that their hunting would have provided 雖然存在大量的獸皮? ?可能是狩獵所得,但沒能找到骨錐或骨針,這樣就不能證明尼人是否熟練掌握了縫制皮革的技術。

The archaeological record , however , shows few signs of any specialisation among the neanderthals from their appearance about 250 , 000 years ago to their disappearance 30 , 000 years ago 然而根據考古資料顯示,從25萬年前尼人出現到3萬年前尼人消失的期間,幾乎沒有出現任何分工的跡象。

If these changes are common to modern humans and neanderthals , they must predate the separation of the line leading to homo sapiens from the one leading to homo neanderthalensis 如這些突變對現代人和尼安德特人來說是普遍的,現代人這條線和現代尼安德特人這條線一定更早的就分開了。