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First Impressions

机译:第一印象

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At Walvis Bay in Namibia, a scouring wind pushes sand dunes across an ancient mud flat. Sometimes when the dunes shift, the tracks of long-gone people and animals are exposed - much to the delight of Matthew Bennett, an ichnologist at Bournemouth University in England. Ichnologists study tracks and traces and other signs of living creatures, including the footprints left by our human and pre-human ancestors. As fare and prized as hominin bones in the fossil record, footprints evoke a different response. "A track is extremely emotive," says Bennett. "If you see an ancient footprint, you are automatically drawn to it." Indeed, at Walvis Bay the tracks emerge from the landscape as if they were just created. "One of the sites has [the tracks of] very small children in it," he adds, "and there's little doubt that they're playing."
机译:在纳米比亚的沃尔维斯湾,一阵刺风将沙丘推过一个古老的泥滩。有时,当沙丘移动时,久而久之的人和动物的足迹就暴露了出来,这使英国伯恩茅斯大学的鱼类学家Matthew Bennett感到非常高兴。技术专家研究生物的轨迹和痕迹以及其他迹象,包括人类祖先和人类祖先留下的足迹。在化石记录中,票价和珍贵的人骨一样,足迹引起了不同的反应。贝内特说:“一首歌极富情调。” “如果您看到一个古老的足迹,就会自动被它吸引。”确实,在沃尔维斯湾(Walvis Bay),轨道从景观中浮出,就像它们刚被创造出来一样。他补充说:“其中一个地点有(很小的)孩子的踪迹,毫无疑问,他们在玩耍。”

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    《Discover》 |2015年第8期|79-81|共3页
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    JEFF WHEELWRIGHT;

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