In 1927, at Chou-k’ou-tien, near Beijing, a hominid lower molar of unusual pattern was discovered

1927年，在北京附近的周口店发现一颗形状异常的人类下臼齿。

Stratigraphy and Chronology of Deposits in “Liujiang Hominid Cave”, Guangxi, China

柳江现代智人化石地点的地层及年代

Preliminary U-series Dating of Southern Branch Cave of Maba Hominid Site

马坝人地点南支洞铀系定年初步结果

The several branches of early hominid were not immune to the changes in climate

早期人科动物的不同分支在气候变化中也未能幸免。

This is a major discovery, because it may push the threshold for the hominid that became the human species back almost half a million years

这是一项重大发现。人科动物向人类进化的转折点可能因此前推50万年。

||1: Her husband, Richard, discovered in 1967 that the area around Lake Turkana is a good place to look for human fossils and made many important finds there. ||2: Richard’s parents, Louis and Mary, had earlier been responsible for showing the same was true of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania; and in 1999 Dr Leakey herself found a new species of hominid , called Kenyanthropus platyops.

||1:1967年，她的丈夫理查德发现图尔卡纳湖附近区域是一块寻找人类化石的好地方，并在那里取得了许多重要发现。||2:理查德的父母路易斯和玛丽曾在早些时候负责坦桑尼亚奥杜瓦伊峡谷的人类化石发掘工作。米芙?利基博士本人曾在1999年发现了一个叫肯尼亚平脸人的新人种，

A primitive hominid hurls a bone club into the air,

原始人类向空中投掷一根骨头棒

With the discovery of Ardi (above), 3. 2-million-year-old fossil Lucy is no longer the oldest hominid skeleton known.

阿尔迪的发现（上图），让距今320万年的露西化石不再是已知最早的人类遗骨。

From one perspective, the development of a very small penis could be considered the next step in male hominid evolution.

从这一角度看，在原始男性进化中，非常小阴茎的男人在下一步可能优先考虑发展。

The cool temperatures of the Quaternary may have allowed our brains to become much larger than those of our of hominid ancestors.

第四纪的凉爽气温或许让我们的大脑比人类远祖的大脑更大。

Even more surprising, this novel and still mysterious hominid , if confirmed, would have lived near Stone Age Neandertals and Homo sapiens.

更令人吃惊的是，如果这个高贵而神秘的人类的确存在的话，那他们应该是生活在接近石器时代的Neandertals人和现代人类。

The fossil record reveals both a hitherto unsuspected mountain-dwelling hominid and, in this article, how the dinosaurs began

化石记录揭示了迄今为止没人怀疑的居住在山里的原始人类，以及在这篇文章中提到的恐龙的起源

She calculated such a hominid could have sweated up to 13. 6 litres a day.

她估计，当时一个原始人类每天的流汗量可达13.6升。

The scientists also analyzed fossilized bone collections from ancient hominid sites in Spain, the U. K. and the Caucasus region.

科学家们还分析了从西班牙、英国和高加索地区的古人类遗址处出土的骨骼化石。

Our small hominid ancestors probably faced the same kinds of threats that baboons do today from leopards, eagles, and other predators.

我们的祖先很可能面对过现在狒狒面对的来自美洲豹、老鹰和其他捕食者那样的威胁。

Some biologists, along with Plato, define hominid as “featherless biped. ”

有些生物学家，作为柏拉图的跟随者，定义原始人类为“没有羽毛的两足动物”。

Primitive Building or the Building of Hominid

原始人的建筑

A hominid is really any extinct ape more closely related to us than the chimpanzee.

原始人类中任何一个灭绝的猿物种和我们的关系都比黑猩猩更密切。

Fragmentary hominid bones have been found there too, extending back to 5. 8 million years.

在那里，研究人员们也发现了古人类的骨骼化石碎片，其时间要回溯至580万年前。