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1.万物简史 第634期:神秘的两足动物(12)
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Finally, but perhaps above all, human nature is a factor in all this. Scientists have a natural tendency to interpret finds in the way that most flatt...
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2.万物简史 第633期:神秘的两足动物(11)
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It is the patchiness of the record that makes each new find look so sudden and distinct from all the others. If we had tens of thousands of skeletons ...
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3.万物简史 第632期:神秘的两足动物(10)
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The shortage wouldn't be so bad if the bones were distributed evenly through time and space, but of course they are not. They appear randomly, often i...
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4.万物简史 第631期:神秘的两足动物(9)
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Some continue to observe the two hominid genera suggested by Howell in 1960, but others place some of the australopithecines in a separate genus calle...
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5.万物简史 第630期:神秘的两足动物(8)
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In an attempt to introduce some order, in 1960 F. Clark Howell of the University of Chicago, following the suggestions of Ernst Mayr and others the pr...
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6.万物简史 第629期:神秘的两足动物(7)
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At Black's urging, more determined excavations were undertaken and many other bones found. Unfortunately all were lost the day after the Japanese atta...
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7.万物简史 第628期:神秘的两足动物(6)
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Broom was an accomplished paleontologist, and since he was also resident in South Africa he was able to examine the Taung skull at first hand. He coul...
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8.万物简史 第627期:神秘的两足动物(5)
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Meanwhile, and half a world away, in late 1924 Raymond Dart, the Australian-born head of anatomy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesbur...
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9.万物简史 第626期:神秘的两足动物(4)
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The next year Dubois's workers found a virtually complete thighbone that looked surprisingly modern. In fact, many anthropologists think itis modern, ...
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10.万物简史 第625期:神秘的两足动物(3)
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Many people refused to accept that the Neandertal bones were ancient at all. August Mayer, a professor at the University of Bonn and a man of influenc...