But Neandertal intelligence was dismissed by the scientific community during much of the 20th century.

但在20世纪的大部分时间里，尼安德特人的智慧都被科学界忽视了。

Meaning that Neandertals did try vegetation, likely tubers and nuts.

这表明，尼安德河谷人的确尝试过素食，比如块茎类植物和坚果。

The more we learn about Neandertals, the more like us they become.

我们对尼安德特人的了解越多，就越发现他们很像我们。

Of the Neandertal specimens, the best preserved was sitting unremarked on a shelf in London.

尼安德特人骸骨中最完整的一块后来被放在伦敦的一个架子上，没有引起人们的注意。

Neandertals hunted, made cave art, cooked with fire, used boats and went fishing.

尼安德特人会捕猎、绘制洞穴壁画、用火烹饪，使用船只和捕鱼。

This revised assessment of Neandertal weaponry began with the crafting of spruce timber into replicas of an actual 300,000-year-old spear.

对尼安德特人武器的修正评估源于人们用云杉木复制成的一只30万年前的矛。

And that DNA sequence likely derives from Neandertals, says Hugo Zeberg of the Max Planck Institute.

马克斯普朗克研究所的雨果·泽伯格说，该 DNA 序列可能来自尼安德特人。

Others, however, were troubled that the Neandertal and modern features weren't more blended.

不过，另外一些人则为小孩身上尼安德特人和现代人的特征混合得不够而感到困惑。

Neandertals were making these tools more than 50,000 years before modern humans first arrived in Western Europe.

现代人首次到达西欧之前，尼安德特人制造这些工具的历史已有5万多年。

You wouldn't believe how much discussion can go into deciding details like whether Neandertals had eyebrows or not.

你也许不能相信，在确定细节的问题上，比如尼安德特人是否有眉毛，人们也不知进行了多少讨论。

Neandertal vertebrae were not simian at all.

尼安德特人的脊椎完全不同于类人猿。

And the results are one more reminder that Neandertals shared many of the qualities we think of as human.

研究结果再次提示我们，尼安德特人具有我们认为人类独有的多种特质。

Either he was physiologically primitive or Neandertal's posture had been misdescribed.

要么从生理学角度讲他类同于原始人，要么就是我们对尼安德特人样子的认识存在着偏差。

So the newcomers' ornaments may not have inspired the Neandertals after all, Stringer says.

因此，斯金格说，新来者的装饰品可能根本没有激发尼安德特人的灵感。

Human-made tools might have inspired the later Neandertal designs, Hublin says.

Hublin 说， 人造工具可能启发了后来的尼安德特人设计。

Some think it could be Neandertal.

有人认为这可能是尼安德特人。

Fifty thousand years ago is the approximate time humans and Neandertals interbred.

五万年前是人类和尼安德特人杂交的大概时间。

And over the millennia, these Neandertal variants have become more common in some Homo sapiens populations than others.

几千年来，这些尼安德特人变种在某些智人种群中比在其他人种中更为普遍。

Even plant remains in Neandertal teeth could have gotten there because a tasty animal carcass itself contained traces of a last vegetarian meal.

甚至连在粘在尼安德河谷人的牙齿上的菜叶中也可以检测到这些物质，因为一具美味的动物尸体在生前也吃过素食。

For example, 16 percent of people of European descent carry at least one copy of the Neandertal stretch.

例如，16% 的欧洲人后裔至少携带一份尼安德特人遗迹。