Let’s read aloud first. 最初に声を出して読んでみましょう。
300,000 years-old human bones of skull and jaw were found in Morocco in north-western Africa. These remains were 100,000 years older than the previous remains. That indicates human appeared more than 100,000 years earlier than thought. Most researchers had thought the origin of our species in East Africa about 200,000 years ago. Finding suggests we didn’t evolve only in East Africa. They show how we have evolved. These remains looked similar to us but they had a different shape. Their brains were bigger and some parts of the brains were not as developed. It is said that the people living years ago lived in caves. They hunted animals for food. This finding will especially give the huge impact on the research field for origin of human.
skull (頭蓋骨), Morocco (モロッコ王国, 大西洋と地中海に面した北アフリカの国), remain (遺骨) , evolve (進化する)
Questions:
- Where were the human bones found?
- How much older were these bones than the previous remains?
- How were the remains different from us? Explain.
- What did the people learn through these remains?
- Where did the old human live?
- Have you seen any human or animal remain? Where?
- What is your opinion?