That's why Berger calls these two species of human relatives rather than human ancestors.

所以伯格把这两个物种称为人类亲属物种，而不是人类的祖先。

These ancient human relatives, and others, called Denisovans, once lived alongside our early Homo sapiens ancestors.

这些远古的人类亲戚，以及其他被称为丹尼索瓦人的人，曾经与我们早期的智人祖先生活在一起。

NASA's spacecraft was named for the Ethiopian fossil of the extinct human relative Australopithecus called " Lucy" .

美国国家航空航天局的航天器是以埃塞俄比亚已灭绝的人类近亲南方古猿化石“露西”命名的。

And of course, we have the Neanderthals -- our closest extinct human relative.

当然，我们还有尼安德特人——我们最亲近的已灭绝人类亲戚。

It is the most significant and extensive discovery of early human relatives of fossils ever made on the continent of Africa.

这是非洲大陆发现早期人类亲属化石后最重要的发现。

With all the evidence together, researchers concluded that these ancient human relatives had used fire for cooking some 780,000 years ago.

综合所有证据，研究人员得出结论，人类的这些远古亲戚在大约78万年前曾用火做饭。

From Japan, we're moving over to South Africa where a professor claims to have discovered a new species of human relative.

离开日本, 接下来我们前往南非，那里的一位教授声称已发现了一种新的人类亲属。

Their new paper confirms that the cave holds DNA from a group of ancient human relatives.

他们的新论文证实，该洞穴保存着一群古代人类亲属的 DNA。

Compared to our chimp cousins and prehistoric human relatives, we have a shorter, wider pelvis, with muscles oriented and enlarged to handle the weight of our entire upper body when walking and running.

与我们的黑猩猩表亲和史前人类亲戚相比，我们的骨盆更短、更宽，肌肉定向和扩大，以承受行走和跑步时整个上身的重量。