erectus

基本解释

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.
人們通常認爲直立人是現代人的直接祖先，也是第一個生活在洞穴中和學會用火的原始人類。
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.
她的團隊對於廻答有關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代，而不能作爲來自非洲的人類首次遠足的遺跡，那次遠足産生了現在被稱爲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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