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第四十八篇 Researchers Discover Why Humans Began Walking Upright
 研究人员发现人类开始直立行走的原因
Most of us walk and carry items in our hands every day. These are seemingly simple activities that the majority of us don't question. But an international team of researchers, including Dr. Richmond from GW's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, have discovered that human walking upright , may have originated millions of years ago as an adaptation源于 to carrying 搬运scarce稀有的, high-quality高质量的resources资源. The team of researchers from the U. S., England, Japan and Portugal investigated the behavior of modern-day chimpanzees as peted for food resources, in an effort to understand what ecological settings would lead a large ape - one that resembles the 6 million-year old ancestor we shared mon with living chimpanzees - to walk on two legs.
我们大多数人每天都走路而且手里搬着东西。这样的活动看似太简单,大多数人没有疑问。但是一个国际研究者(包括乔治o华盛顿大学哥伦比亚艺术与科学学院的Richmond博士)团队已经发现了人类直立行走可能源于数百万年以前适应搬运稀有的、高质量的资源。这些来自美国、英国、日本和葡萄牙的研究者研究了当代黑猩猩争抢食物时的行为特征,试图对什么样的生态环境竟然导致大猿(一种我们与现存的黑猩猩一样的600万年前的祖先)直立行走作出解释。
  "These chimpanzees provide a model of the ecological conditions under which our earliest ancestors might have begun walking on two legs, "said Dr. Richmond.
"这些黑猩猩居住的生态环境和我们最早的祖先开始直立行走时是相同的," Richmond博士说。
The research findings suggest that chimpanzees switch