That is about a million years older than other early known hominins.

这比其他早期已知的原始人年长约一百万年。

Homo habilis wasn't the first hominin to use tools, but they really pioneered the whole maker movement.

能人不是第一个使用工具的原始人，但他们真正开创了整个制作运动。

Hominin is a group that includes modern humans and species closely related to humans.

原始人是一个包括现代人类和与人类关系密切的物种的群体。

This led researchers to believe that other kinds of hominins might have picked up tools too.

这使得研究人员认为，其他种类的古人类可能也学会了制造和使用工具。

Rising Star Cave is believed to be the largest fossil hominin site discovered in Africa to date.

因此升星洞被认为是迄今为止在非洲发现的最大的古人类遗址。

And we've come to the conclusion, that this species of non-human hominin was deliberately disposing of it's dead.

我们得出的结论是这一非人类物种故意把尸体放进这里。

When I say “human” (with a lower case h) or hominin, I'm talking about all the species in here.

当我说人类时（首字母是小写的h）或古人类时，我说的是这里的所有物种。

Your work is of course on the sequencing of these early hominins.

AS：你的工作当然是对这些早期人类进行测序。

Layers 2, 3, 4, and 7 were found to harbor DNA of ancient hominins.

第 2、3、4 和 7 层被发现含有古代人类的 DNA。

The term hominin is still developing and is used to describe species that are considered human or closely linked to humans.

hominin（人类，原始人类）一词还在演变中，该词被用来描述被认为是人类或与人类有密切联系的物种。

Hominins include Neanderthals, Homo Erectus, Homo sapiens, and the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis.

人科动物包括尼安德特人、直立人、智人和类似霍比特人的弗洛勒斯人。

In fact, there’s only one other hominin fossil that it looks like.

事实上， 它看起来像另外一种人科动物化石。

And we can see that, you know, chimpanzees and early hominins had a small chimp-like gluteus maximus.

我们可以看到，黑猩猩和早期人类有一个像黑猩猩一样的小臀大肌。

So scientists are pretty sure that the hominins found at Mata Menge are the ancestors of Homo floresiensis.

因此，科学家们非常确定在马塔门格发现的古人类是弗洛勒斯人的祖先。

And that S-shaped bone was a hominin clavicle, and the reason I knew that is very few mammals, first, in Africa have hominin clavicles.

那块 S 形的骨头是人科动物的锁骨，而我之所以知道这一点，是因为很少有哺乳动物，首先，在非洲，很少有哺乳动物有人科动物的锁骨。

It seems that millions of years ago in Africa, early hominins first transitioned out of trees and adopted a more active lifestyle.

似乎在数百万年前的非洲，早期的古人类从树居转型为活动性较高的地面生活。

That is fine in volcano-rich Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia, the main other sources of hominin fossils.

这在富含火山的肯尼亚、坦桑尼亚和埃塞俄比亚是很好的，它们是人类化石的其他主要来源。

It can tell us what cultures and skills they brought with them, and whether those abilities helped them outcompete other species of hominins.

它可以告诉我们他们带来了什么样的文化和技能，以及这些能力是否帮助他们战胜其他人类物种。

It is the resting place of five of the ten known partial skeletons of early hominins, the ancestors of human beings.

它是 10 具已知的早期人科动物（人类的祖先）部分骨骼中的 5 具的安息之地。

This hominin group spread its genes into the DNA of living humans now scattered as far as Papua New Guinea and Australia.

这个人类群体将其基因传播到现在散布在巴布亚新几内亚和澳大利亚的现存人类的 DNA 中。