It became his earnest wish to be declared the type specimen forHomo sapiens that is, that his bones would be the official set for the human race.

他殷切希望自己被宣布为“人类”的模式标本即，把他的骨头作为人类的正式样板。

Normally, the type specimen of a species is the first set of bones found, but since no first set of Homo sapiens bones exists, there was a vacancy, which Cope desired to fill.

在一般情况下，一个物种的模式标本就是被发现的第一副骨头，但由于“人类”的第一副骨头并不存在，就产生了一个空缺。柯普希望填补这个空缺。