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.
人们通常认为直立人是现代人的直接祖先，也是第一个生活在洞穴中和学会用火的原始人类。
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.
她的团队对于回答有关人类祖先来自东非的类似问题也有兴趣，以及原始人类的人种问题，比如原始人类的直立行走。
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.
然而共同的祖先对于新人种又太现代，而不能作为来自非洲的人类首次远足的遗迹，那次远足产生了现在被称为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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