Anatomically modern humans 翻譯時遇到這個詞(Anatomically modern humans),字面上的意思是: 從解剖學上來看的現代人。 透過維基百科,知道它被譯成: 晚期智人 。 再透過幾個中英文網站,我又多充實了一些考古學上的常識。 英文維基百科: Anatomically modern human 中文維基百科: 晚期智人 These Bones of Mine: Anatomically Modern Humans: A Brief Introduction 中國科普博覽-古生物館: 何謂現代人 * * * 另外一個有趣的相關字是: homo sapiens sapiens ,特別是它後面的這兩個字是重複的。透過Google 搜尋的結果,除了出現維基百科的英文解釋之外,旁邊的圖檔出現的是 Human 。 點進去之後, 維基百科的英文 解釋如下: Homo sapiens (Latin: "wise person") is the binomial nomenclature (also known as the scientific name) for the only extant human species . Homo is the human genus , which also includes Neanderthals and many other extinct species of hominid; H. sapiens is the only surviving species of the genus Homo . Modern humans are the subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens , which differentiates them from what has been argued to be their direct ancestor, Homo sapiens idaltu . The ingenuity and adaptability of Homo sapiens has led to ...