SSS 2012-05-11
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(五)月
英语课
This is Scientific Americans 60 second Science, I am Sophie Bushwick, got a minute?
One family generally dines on Chinese takeout while their neighbors eat home-cooked meatloaf. You say potato, I say potahto. And humans aren’t the only primate 1 species with cultural differences: even in the same environment, different groups of chimpanzees use different tools. The work is inCurrent Biology.
Chimps 3 living in a national park in Cote d’Ivoire like eating Coula nuts. They hammer them open with stone or wood. At the beginning of the season, the nutshells are harder. So you might expect all the chimps in the forest to initially 4 use stone hammers and then switch to easy-to-find wooden tools when the nut-cracking requires less force.
But researchers examined the tool use of three different chimpanzee communities—and found that despite sharing genes 5 and a habitat, each group chose their hammers differently.
For example, one group preferred stone hammers throughout the Coula nut season. Another gradually transitioned from primarily stone to primarily wooden tools. And the third community switched from stone to wood more quickly. Hammer size also varied 6 from group to group.
As a chimp 2 might explain, you say tomato, I say [chimpanzee calls].
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n.灵长类（目）动物，首席主教；adj.首要的
- 14 percent of primate species are highly endangered.14%的灵长类物种处于高度濒危状态。
- The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.绒毛蛛猴是美洲最大的灵长类动物。
n.黑猩猩
- In fact,the color of gorilla and chimp are light-color.其实大猩猩和黑猩猩的肤色是较为浅的。
- The chimp is the champ.猩猩是冠军。
（非洲）黑猩猩( chimp的名词复数 )
- Chimps are too scarce, and too nearly human, to be routinely slaughtered for spare parts. 黑猩猩又太少，也太接近于人类，不可以作为人器官备用件说杀就杀。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
- And as nonprimates, they provoke fewer ethical and safety-related concerns than chimps or baboons. 而且作为非灵长类，就不会产生像用黑猩猩或狒狒那样的伦理和安全方面的顾虑。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
adv.最初，开始
- The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
- Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
n.基因( gene的名词复数 )
- You have good genes from your parents, so you should live a long time. 你从父母那儿获得优良的基因，所以能够活得很长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Differences will help to reveal the functions of the genes. 它们间的差异将会帮助我们揭开基因多种功能。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 生物技术的世纪