homo erectus

基本解释

They claimed their skulls showed that modern humans had evolved all over the world from local populations of an earlier species called Homo erectus.
他們在研究頭骨後得出這樣的結論：分佈在世界各地的現代人是由儅地的早期直立人進化而來。
Archeological finds in the Olduvai Gorge include stone tools, and skeletal remains of Homo Habilis and Homo Erectus, as well as bones of, now extinct, wild animals.
考古學家在奧杜瓦伊山穀發現了包括石器，能人和直立人骨架的遺骸，還有現已滅絕的野生動物遺骨在內的多個遺跡。
The jaw bone, identified as belonging to a new sub-species of Homo Erectus, indicates that humans arrived in Asia almost a million years earlier than previously believed.
這塊下頜骨被確認屬於一個亞種直立人（直立人巫山亞種），這表明人類在百萬年以前就在亞洲生活，這比起先估計的要早。

Only in a brief postscript do we learn that pithecanthropus now goes by the more familiar name homo erectus.
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an extinct species of primitive man, able to walk upright &rarrsee also Java man , Peking man