晚期猿人

wǎnqīyuánrén

noun

Meanings

1 late Homo erectus
2 (paleoanthropology) the later stage of 'ape-man' in older Chinese textbook classifications

Characters

Examples

北京猿人属于晚期猿人。

Běijīng yuánrén shǔyú wǎnqī yuánrén.

Peking Man belongs to the late Homo erectus stage.

晚期猿人已经能够使用火。

Wǎnqī yuánrén yǐjīng nénggòu shǐyòng huǒ.

Late Homo erectus was already able to use fire.

Tips

history

Chinese school textbooks split Homo erectus into 早期猿人 (early) and 晚期猿人 (late), with the Zhoukoudian Peking Man and Lantian Man as canonical 晚期猿人 examples. Modern palaeoanthropology prefers straight species names (Homo erectus, Homo ergaster), but the older labels remain common in Chinese reference works.

Stroke Order

晚 wǎn

期 qī

猿 yuán

人 rén