The human origin of Wushan people

Wushan people shake the origin of mankind.

From Australopithecus to humans, these ancient "travelers" have to experience homo habilis, homo erectus and homo sapiens, that is, modern people. About Homo erectus, in the 1920s, Professor Pei Wenzhong, a famous paleoanthropologist in China, first discovered a Beijinger 500,000 years ago in Zhoukoudian, Beijing. This great discovery confirmed the existence of Homo erectus in Java, which was the first discovery of Homo erectus in Asia. Later, Lantian people in Shaanxi, Yuanmou people in Yunnan, Hexian people in Anhui, Changyang people in Hubei and Tangshan people in Nanjing also came out one after another.

In the past, due to the discovery of human beings in the Great Rift Valley in East Africa, western scholars put forward the conclusion that human beings originated in Africa, while Homo erectus in Asia spread from Africa. China scholars put forward the view that "Asia may also be one of the origins of human beings", but there has been a lack of evidence of human fossil materials from 2 million to 4 million years ago. At that time, there were no human fossils found in China before 6.5438+0 million years, that is, there were no human fossils above 6.5438+0 million years ago. The ancestors of Chinese Yanhuang can only be traced back to Lantian people 6.5438+0.65438+0.5 million years ago.