An extinct primate postulated from bones found in Java in 1891 and originally designated Pithecanthropus erectus because it was thought to represent a species evolutionarily between ape s and human beings.

爪哇猿人一絕種的猿人，據(jù)1891年爪哇發(fā)現(xiàn)的骨頭推測(cè)出，因?yàn)檎J(rèn)為它可能屬于一種介于猿與人之間的物種，所以早先將其認(rèn)定為爪哇直立猿人。