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A、Their genetic makeup began to change. B、Their communities began to grow steadily. C、Their children began to mix with each othe
A、Their genetic makeup began to change. B、Their communities began to grow steadily. C、Their children began to mix with each othe
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2021-01-08
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问题
Skin may seem like a superficial human attribute, but it’s the first thing we notice about anyone we meet. As a zoologist focusing on the studies of apes and monkeys, I’ve been studying why humans evolved to become the naked ape, and why skin comes in so many different shades around the world. We can make a very good estimate from the fossil record that humans probably evolved naked skin around 1.5 million years ago, and meanwhile they mostly lost their coat of fur.
Today we have a few patches of hair remaining on various parts of our bodies. But compared with apes and monkeys, we have very little. Basically, we turned our skin darker to serve as a natural sun protector in the place of the hair we lost. We think we lost this hair because of the need to keep ourselves cool when we were moving around vigorously in a hot environment. We can’t really lose heat by breathing quickly and loudly like dogs. We have to do it by sweating. So we evolved the ability to sweat plentifully and lost most of our fur. Most animals protect themselves from the sun with fur. What we did in our ancestry was to produce more permanent natural coloring in our skin cells. This was really an important revolution in human history because it allowed us to continue to evolve in equatorial environments. It really made it possible for us to continue along the path toward modern humans in Africa.
For most of human history, we all had dark skin. What we see today is the product of evolutionary events resulting from the dispersal of a few human populations out of Africa around 60,000 to 70,000 years ago. Our species originated around 200,000 years ago and underwent tremendous diversification— culturally, technologically, linguistically, artistically— for 130,000 years. After that, a few small populations left Africa to populate the rest of the world. These early ancestors of modern Eurasians dispersed into parts of the world that had more seasonal sunshine and much lower levels of sun radiation. It’s in these populations that we begin to see real changes in the genetic makeup of natural coloring.
Today, skin color is evolving in the new mixtures of people coming together and having children with new mixtures of skin color genes. We can see this in almost every large city worldwide. Not only the coloring genes but lots of other genes are getting mixed up, too.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.
22. What does the speaker mainly talk about?
23. What had probably caused humans to lose most of their hair 1.5 million years ago?
24. What does the speaker say protected early humans from the sun?
25. What happened after humans migrated from Africa to other parts of the world?
选项
A、Their genetic makeup began to change.
B、Their communities began to grow steadily.
C、Their children began to mix with each other.
D、Their pace of evolution began to quicken.
答案
A
解析
讲座中提到,一部分人离开非洲来到了世界各地。他们来到那些拥有四季变化、日晒也不那么强烈的地方,体内的天然色素的基因构成开始发生变化。因此答案为A)。
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