Neanderthals are extinct, but they were the closest relative of modern humans. Up until about 30,000 years ago, human beings shared the Earth with Neanderthals. The two species were so close that they sometimes mated. Scientists have long believed th

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(310) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

The cat and the dog were talking. The cat said, Humans treat us better than you. If we turn up our nose at the cat food they serve us, they buy us another brand. If we're sleepy, we can sleep on the pillows in their bed. The dog said, But humans take

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05 关于克隆人计划的争论 DATE=2-21-01 TITLE=SCIENCE REPORT - Cloning Humans BYLINE=George Grow (start at 59

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Artifacts found in Southern California have puzzled scientists for years. Some now say they are proof that humans lived in the area 130,000 years ago, well before anyone thought. That would make them the oldest evidence of humans i

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Small carnivoreslike foxes or raccoons or badgersare themselves prey for larger predatorslike wolves. So they spend time hiding instead of hunting. This influence that big predators have on their ecosystem is called a landscape of fear. But humans ar

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You may have heard that humans and chimpanzees have something like 96 percent of our DNA in common. So why, then, are diseases like cancer so common in humans but so rare in chimps? If our DNA is nearly identical, shouldnt we be at risk for many of t

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Dear A Moment of Science, 亲爱的《科学一刻》栏目组: I know that humans and chimps share something like 98 percent of our DNA. But what does this really mean? At least on the surface, humans and chimps seem very different we live in hous

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary cell: a single functional unit of an organism reproduce: to make another living thing paternity: the state of being ones natural parent (esp. father) forensic: scientific evidence related to a criminal investigation Humans Sh

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1 Million Years B.C.: Humans Rare A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences used genomic analysis of modern humans to reveal that the population of our ancestors a million years back was below 20,000. Karen Hopkin reports At one

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS -May 7, 2002: Humans and Chimps: What's the Difference? / Thousands of Ancient Remains Found in Peru / Rice Genes Mapped VOICE ONE: This is Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And this is Bob

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To Avoid Humans, Tigers Take Night Shift Tigers dont have a reputation for being very accommodating, but a new study challenges the long-held conservation belief that these large carnivores need lots of people-free space. This new understanding is es

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Plants, Humans Share Sensory Awareness The Botanical Garden is a blooming paradise, about four hectares filled with a rich array of some 3,800 species drawn from Israels diverse landscape and from around the world. Danny Chamovitz, director of the Ma

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AS IT IS 2014-01-06 More Diseases Now Spreading from Animals to Humans 越来越多的动物疾病传播给人类 Hello, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. Im Christopher Cruise in Washington. Today on the program, we report on effort

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Japanese Robots Besting Humans at Games Tokyo University engineering professor Masatoshi Ishikawa has a good-natured response to frustrated human losers who accuse him of essentially creating a robot that cheats. [It is] not cheating. Every one milli

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Genome Shows Humans More Gorilla-like than Thought Sixty scientists worked over five years to sequence the genome of a single female lowland gorilla, the last of the great apes to have its DNA mapped. According to lead author Aylwyn Scally, of the Tr

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Meat Was Main Dish for Early Humans Modern-day humans eat a lot of meat. Some nutritionists say perhaps too much. But fossils in Tanzania indicate that early humans considered meat a dietary staple much earlier than first thought. Whats more, meat ma

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Rena Dam. Voice 2 And Im Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand - no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 There is a large square stone near a

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This is a story about the birds and the bees. When the Yao people of Mozambique want to find beehives full of honey they make this noise [brrrr-hm]. That sound attracts the attention of what are appropriately called honeyguide birds. If you ask Yao h

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Dog Rules 狗法则 1. The dog is not allowed in the house. 1. 狗不能进屋。 2. Okay, the dog is allowed in the house, but only in certain rooms. 2. 好吧,好吧,狗可以进屋,但只可以进个别房间。 3. The dog is allowed in all

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Aliens exist and they live in our midst disguised as humans--at least, that's what 20 percent of people polled in a global survey believe. 外星人不仅存在,而且假扮成人类生活在我们中间至少有20%的人这么认为。 The Reuters

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