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.
他们在研究头骨后得出这样的结论：分布在世界各地的现代人是由当地的早期直立人进化而来。
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.
考古学家在奥杜瓦伊山谷发现了包括石器，能人和直立人骨架的遗骸，还有现已灭绝的野生动物遗骨在内的多个遗迹。
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.
这块下颌骨被确认属于一个亚种直立人（直立人巫山亚种），这表明人类在百万年以前就在亚洲生活，这比起先估计的要早。

Only in a brief postscript do we learn that pithecanthropus now goes by the more familiar name homo erectus.
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Homo floresiensis, as most researchers other than Dr Jacob had always suspected, seems to be a locally evolved descendant of Homo erectus.
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an extinct species of primitive man, able to walk upright &rarrsee also Java man , Peking man