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以下の英文を読み下線部(a)(b)(c)を和訳せよ。
Human beings are talkative* creatures and always have been, so far as we can see. (a)It was our urge to communicate with each other and growing ability to do so that was probably the chief factor in the development that made us different from all other animals. (b)Leading anthropologists* are now of the opinion that it was not so much aggressiveness as ability to cooperate that gave the earliest forms of man a superiority over others of the ape family*, and co-operation entails communication.
As far back as 750,000 years ago some primitive men, or hominids*, had mastered the use of fire. This signified a great mental advance for it is natural to all animals to fear fire. (c)And only by combining together, passing on acquired knowledge, and making plans could men conquer this fear and turn what had been a cause of terror to their own advantage.
All this signifies that already they had language of a sort.
* talkative 話好きの anthropologist 人類学者 ＜anthropology 人類学 the ape family 猿という種族 hominid 原人
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