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1.万物简史 第644期:神秘的两足动物(22)
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Tattersall thinks the rise of a big brain may simply have been an evolutionary accident. He believes with Stephen Jay Gould that if you replayed the t...
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2.万物简史 第643期:神秘的两足动物(21)
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Homo habilis (handy man) was named by Louis Leakey and colleagues in 1964 and was so called because it was the first hominid to use tools, albeit very...
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3.万物简史 第642期:神秘的两足动物(20)
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At one point between three and two million years ago, it appears there may have been as many as six hominid types coexisting in Africa. Only one, howe...
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4.万物简史 第641期:神秘的两足动物(19)
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But stepping out onto theopen savanna also clearly left the early hominids much more exposed. An uprighthominid could see better, but could also be se...
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5.万物简史 第640期:神秘的两足动物(18)
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All this is problematic enough when you are the intellectual master of the planet,but when you are a small, vulnerable australopithecine, with a brain...
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6.万物简史 第639期:神秘的两足动物(17)
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Matters grew murkier still in 2001 and 2002 when four exceptional new specimens were found. One, discovered by Meave Leakey of the famous fossil-hunti...
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7.万物简史 第638期:神秘的两足动物(16)
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I asked him if he was troubled about the amount of license that was taken in reconstructing the figures. It's always a problem in making re-creations,...
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8.万物简史 第637期:神秘的两足动物(15)
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The American Museum of Natural History in New York has an absorbing diorama that records the moment of their passing. It depicts life-sized re-creatio...
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9.万物简史 第636期:神秘的两足动物(14)
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A human body has 206 bones, but many of these are repeated. If you have the left femur from a specimen, you don't need the right to know its dimension...
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10.万物简史 第635期:神秘的两足动物(13)
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These were the australopithecines, and for the next five million years they would be the world's dominant hominid species. (Austral is from the Latin ...