homo erectus

基本解釋

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(jié)論：分佈在世界各地的現(xiàn)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(xué)家在奧杜瓦伊山穀發(fā)現(xiàn)了包括石器，能人和直立人骨架的遺骸，還有現(xiàn)已滅絕的野生動物遺骨在內(nèi)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