China is one of the birthplaces of mankind. One of the bases that has led to the belief that China is also the place of origin of human beings is the discovery of fossil material in China of various close relatives of humans that are older than the Australopithecus australopithecus in Africa. The reason is simple: since there were close relatives of human beings at that time, the same living environment, why can't there be a companion of human close relatives - ancient humans?
According to the modern theory of human origin, ancient apes originally lived in forests, and later due to changes in the earth's crust, the natural environment and climate suddenly changed, resulting in a decrease in forests, forcing ancient apes to live on the ground. According to the results of the current study, the oldest primates are the common ancestors of all humans and all modern apes, and about fifty million years ago, monkeys and higher primates were differentiated from a common ancestor and then developed in their respective evolutionary directions.
Early higher primates dating back 35 million years have been found in Africa, but they are only a segment of the evolutionary ladder of higher primates, not their ancestors. In the interval between 50 million and 35 million years, there must have been some more primitive higher primates on Earth, even their ancestors.
Where to look for them? The answer is exciting, they're in China! Archaeologists have found at least four higher primates in the Shanghuang area of Liyang, Jiangsu, dating back 45 million years, nearly 10 million years before the higher primates of North Africa. One of them is named the Chinese Akebono. Jia Lanpo commented that the Chinese akebono is another extremely important discovery in paleontology in the 20th century, and its significance can be comparable to the discovery of the Zhoukoudian Beijing ape man.
In China, various ancient ape fossil materials are emerging in an endless stream.
Forest apes dating from 20 to 14 million years old have been found in the coal seam of Xiaolongtan in Kaiyuan, Yunnan.
Fossils of the skulls of the ancient apes of Rama dating back about 8 million years have been found in Lufeng, Yunnan, closer to real humans than the ancient apes of Africa.
In Yuanmou, Yunnan, about four million years ago, the Yuanmou ancient ape was found, and its age has entered the dating range of the most recently discovered australopithecus in Africa.
Yunnan Lufeng ancient ape Rama jawbone
In addition, in Guangxi's Daxin black hole Liucheng Giant Ape Cave, Wuming Giant Ape Cave and Hubei Jianjian Keel Cave and other places, people have also found giant ape fossils, they are also close relatives of humans, in the early Pleistocene lived in Guangxi, Guangdong and Hubei in southern China, unfortunately, they are not as lucky as our human beings, may continue to the Middle Pleistocene extinction.
In summary, China has a vast Cenozoic strata, has found 40 million years ago higher primate fossils and a variety of ancient ape fossils, dating back to more than two million years of ancient human remains and culture, as for the ancient culture and ancient human materials over a million years is more numerous, all of which make people believe that China may also be one of the birthplaces of human beings.
Our ancient ancestors, after successfully walking out of the forest and completing the transformation from ape to man, packed their bags and continued on their way. In the long journey, their waist rods are getting straighter and straighter, their hands are becoming more and more skillful, their minds are becoming more and more enlightened, and they have used collective wisdom and hard sweat to survive one difficulty after another, and finally ushered in the arrival of the Neolithic Revolution and the dawn of Chinese civilization.
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