erectus

基本解釋

H. erectus is generally believed to be the direct ancestor of modern humans and also the first hominid to live in caves and tame fire.
人們通常認(rèn)爲(wèi)直立人是現(xiàn)代人的直接祖先，也是第一個生活在洞穴中和學(xué)會用火的原始人類。
Her team is also interested in asking similar questions about human ancestors from East Africa, as well as later species of hominin, such as Homo erectus.
她的團(tuán)隊(duì)對於廻答有關(guān)人類祖先來自東非的類似問題也有興趣，以及原始人類的人種問題，比如原始人類的直立行走。
The common ancestor is, however, too recent for the new species to be a remnant of the first human excursion from Africa, the one that led to Java man and Peking man, now known as Homo erectus.
然而共同的祖先對於新人種又太現(xiàn)代，而不能作爲(wèi)來自非洲的人類首次遠(yuǎn)足的遺跡，那次遠(yuǎn)足産生了現(xiàn)在被稱爲(wèi)直立人的爪哇猿人和北京猿人的祖先。

Only in a brief postscript do we learn that pithecanthropus now goes by the more familiar name homo erectus.
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