Perhaps nothing better typifies the confusion than the fragmentary bundle of contradictions that was Homo habilis.

也许最令人困惑的，莫过于支离破碎的能人化石中所出现的矛盾现象。

Homo habilis can't use tools yet, and they've got him with clay pots?

直立猿人还不会使用工具 他们还把他跟陶壶放在一起？

Woah, woah, woah australopithicus isn't supposed to be in that display. No. No. No, no, homo habilis was erect, australopithicus was never fully erect.

南方古猿不应该在那里展览的。不… 能人是直立行走（与“勃起”同词）的，南方古猿不是完全直立行走的。

The general consensus is that homo habilis were vegetarians and did not hunt anything but small game.

人们普遍认为，能人是素食主义者，除了小动物外不捕猎任何东西。

And based on fossil evidence, scientists believe that Homo habilis may have coexisted with another species of early humans, Homo erectus, for almost half a million years.

根据化石证据，科学家认为能人可能与另一种早期人类，直立人，存在了将近 50 万年。

It’s hard to eliminate Australopithecus as a possibility without a more complete skeleton, but the shape of the newly-found jaw and teeth showed some similarity to the teeth of early Homo erectus -- more so than Homo habilis.

如果没有更完整的骨骼， 很难排除南方古猿的可能性，但新发现的颌骨和牙齿的形状与早期直立人的牙齿有一些相似之处——比能人更相似。