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萬物簡史(MP3+中英字幕) 第628期:神秘的兩足動物(6)

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Broom was an accomplished paleontologist, and since he was also resident in South Africa he was able to examine the Taung skull at first hand. He could see at once that it was as important as Dart supposed and spoke out vigorously on Dart's behalf, but to no effect. For the next fifty years the received wisdom was that the Taung child was an ape and nothing more. Most textbooks didn't even mention it. Dart spent five years working up a monograph, but could find no one to publish it. Eventually he gave up the quest to publish altogether (though he did continue hunting for fossils). For years, the skull—today recognized as one of the supreme treasures of anthropology—sat as a paperweight on a colleague's desk.[qh]
布羅姆是一個頗有造詣的古生物學家，又居住在南非，因此有機會親自審視塔翁頭骨。他立刻意識到它確實具有達特所認為的那種重要意義，并不遺余力地為達特辯護，可是毫無效果。在以后的50年里，人們一致的看法是塔翁男孩只不過是猿，僅此而已。大多數教科書甚至都沒有提到它。達特用5年時間撰寫了一篇論文，卻找不到發表的地方。最后他徹底放棄了尋求發表的努力（雖然他還在繼續尋找化石）。這塊頭骨——今天被認為是人類學最珍貴的東西之一——在達特一位同事的辦公桌上被當做鎮紙用了好多年。[qh]
At the time Dart made his announcement in 1924, only four categories of ancient hominid were known—Homo heidelbergensis, Homo rhodesiensis, Neandertals, and Dubois's Java Man—but all that was about to change in a very big way.[qh]

1924年，當達特公布他的發現的時候，人們已知的古人類只有4種：海德爾堡人、羅德西亞人、尼安德特人，以及杜布瓦的爪哇人——但是很快，這一切就將發生根本性改觀。[qh]

戴維森·步達生

First, in China, a gifted Canadian amateur named Davidson Black began to poke around at a place, Dragon Bone Hill, that was locally famous as a hunting ground for old bones. Unfortunately, rather than preserving the bones for study, the Chinese ground them up to make medicines. We can only guess how many priceless Homo erectus bones ended up as a sort of Chinese equivalent of bicarbonate of soda. The site had been much denuded by the time Black arrived, but he found a single fossilized molar and on the basis of that alone quite brilliantly announced the discovery of Sinanthropus pekinensis, which quickly became known as Peking Man.[qh]
先是在中國，一位名叫戴維森·步達生的加拿大業余考古愛好者開始在一處名為龍骨山的地方進行挖掘工作。這座小山在當地無人不知，因為人們在那里發現了古化石。不幸的是，當地人并沒有把這些化石保存下來供科學研究用，卻把它們磨成粉當成了一種制藥材料。我們不知道有多少無價的直立人化石被當地人當做制作中藥材的材料。當步達生來到那里的時候，那個地方已經被挖得不成樣子，但是他還是發現了一顆臼齒化石。據此他很英明地得出結論，他發現了一種新的化石人類型：北京中國猿人，很快他就被稱為北京人。[qh]

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