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• 1.万物简史 第644期:永不安分的类人猿(15)
• As we have noted elsewhere in the book, modern human beings show remarkably little genetic variabilitythere's more diversity in one social group of fi...
• 2.万物简史 第644期:永不安分的类人猿(14)
• By 1992, the study was largely discredited. But the techniques of genetic analysis continued to be refined, and in 1997 scientists from the University...
• 3.万物简史 第644期:永不安分的类人猿(13)
• With the fossil record so unhelpful, scientists have turned increasingly to genetic studies, in particular the part known as mitochondrial DNA. Mitoch...
• 4.万物简史 第644期:永不安分的类人猿(12)
• One thing that would help to resolve matters would be evidence of interbreeding, but that is not at all easy to prove, or disprove, from fossils. In 1...
• 5.万物简史 第644期:永不安分的类人猿(11)
• Thorne emphatically (and I believe sincerely) dismisses the idea that his theory is in any measure racist and accounts for the uniformity of human evo...
• 6.万物简史 第644期:永不安分的类人猿(10)
• Opponents of the multiregional theory reject it, in the first instance, on the grounds that it requires an improbable amount of parallel evolution by ...
• 7.万物简史 第644期:永不安分的类人猿(9)
• Above all the issue that is almost never addressed is that Neandertals had brains that were significantly larger than those of modern people 尤其重要...
• 8.万物简史 第644期:永不安分的类人猿(8)
• Quite who they were and what they were like remain matters of disagreement and uncertainty. Right up until the middle of the twentieth century the acc...
• 9.万物简史 第644期:永不安分的类人猿(7)
• For a long time, it was believed that the Cro-Magnons, as modern humans in Europe became known, drove the Neandertals before them as they advanced acr...
• 10.万物简史 第644期:永不安分的类人猿(6)
• These first modern humans are surprisingly shadowy. We know less about ourselves, curiously enough, than about almost any other line of hominids. It i...