I am a student in school and want to reduce it to around 127 or 8 in half a year. I am now 180. Is it possible?

Question 1. There is no 180. There are different opinions on this, including the following:

1. On December 9, 2005, in her home in Guayaquil, a port city in Ecuador, 116-year-old Maria Esther Herre Dia Capovilla shows off proof that Guinness World Records awarded her the title of world's oldest person. The longest-lived man in the world has been discovered in India at 130 years old

2. Ocean Network News According to the residents of Brown Village in Himachal Pradesh, northern India, the old lady Devji who lives in this village... Devi is at least 130 years old. If her age can be confirmed, she will be the longest-lived person in the world, 14 years older than the oldest known Chinese woman in the world.

3 Rio de Janeiro news on June 15: It is said that the 129-year-old Brazilian woman Maria Carmo Geronimo passed away on June 14.

According to church baptismal records, Geronimo was born on March 5, 1871. But without a birth certificate, she was not recognized as the world's oldest woman.

Geronimo was born into a black slave family, when Brazil was still a monarchy. When she was 17 years old, slavery was abolished in Brazil, but she never left her hometown town and worked as a nanny for others for 60 years. At the age of 127, she left home for the first time and saw the ocean. Brazil named her the world's oldest person during a carnival ceremony in Rio de Janeiro to mark the abolition of slavery. Her owner, Agostinho Guimaras, has been trying unsuccessfully in recent years to get Guinness World Records to recognize her as the world's longest-lived woman. "They said that the church's baptismal records were not enough and that a birth certificate was necessary." Gumaras told reporters not long ago, "The problem was that there were no birth certificates at that time, especially for slaves."

4 The oldest People are 141 years old. . . A 141-year-old man was recently found in Malaysia. Relevant authorities in Malaysia have applied to the Guinness Book of World Records to list him as the oldest person in the world.

The old man’s name is Omar, and he currently lives in Mani Kampung Jelan, Terengganu, the capital of the northeastern Malaysian state of Terengganu. He has 4 children, 96 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and his family has four generations living under one roof. For now, Omar can still do some housework.

According to the "Malaysian Book of Records", Omar was born on September 26, 1857, and is now 141 years old.

The longest-lived person in the world so far recognized by the Guinness World Records is Jean-Calment of France. He was 122 years old when he died on August 4, 1997.

What is the limit of human lifespan? This is one of the topics that people care about the most, and scientists are always looking for answers.

Although centenarians are still rare, average human lifespan, especially in developed countries, has been increasing over the past few decades. But how long can this trend continue? Through research on experimental animals, scientists have found that some methods, including limiting caloric intake, can significantly extend their lifespan. But can these methods be successfully applied to humans, and how much life can they extend? Some scientists believe that at least humans living to 100 years old could become commonplace. However, even so, longevity will bring other troubles, such as social insurance.

Roberts, chairman of the Heart Research Center in Ottawa, Canada, said that scientists once believed that it might take another 100 years for human life span to double. However, multiple research results have led scientists to believe that this time will be significantly shortened. He believes that within 50 years, the average human life span will reach 150 years.

According to the British "Guardian" report, Professor Walter Longo, a biomedical scientist at the University of Southern California who has long been engaged in research on human aging mechanisms, discovered that genetically "modified" yeast can extend lifespan by 6 Times! This experiment set a record for extending the life of a living thing.

Relevant research results were published in the world-renowned academic journal Cell.

Yeast is a single-celled organism that can completely explain the aging mechanism of cells. In the experiment, the researchers deleted two core genes, Sir2 and SCH9, in yeast cells. The Sir2 gene controls lifespan by inhibiting entire segments of the genome; the SCH9 gene mainly controls cells to convert nutrients into energy, and specifically informs cells whether there is enough food. If an organism lacks these two genes, the cells will "think" that the food reserves are about to be exhausted, and the main "energy" should be focused on extending life rather than continuing to grow and reproduce. By inhibiting the normal working of these two genes, Sir2 and SCH9, the researchers successfully extended the lifespan of yeast from one week in the natural state to six weeks.

Scientists have begun conducting such experiments on mice. After removing these two key genes, the life span of experimental mice was significantly extended. If the average human life span is 70 years, if life can be extended six times, wouldn't humans be able to live to more than 400 years old?

It has now been discovered that there is a substance called telomerase at the top of the chromosomes of cells. Every time a cell divides, the telomeres shorten a little. When the telomeres finally get too short and can no longer be shortened, the cell's lifespan ends. If we "reverse the timing" of telomerase, wouldn't cells become immortal? The results that have been achieved include: using nanotechnology, the life span of mouse brain cells has been extended by 3-4 times; using transgenic technology, the number of divisions of vascular endothelial cells has increased from 65 to more than 200 times, breaking through the "Hayfrick" "limit" (that is, the limit of cell division is 40-60 times).

How long can we live?

How many years can normal people live? Different scholars examine it from different perspectives and use different methods to calculate different years. The cell division number and division cycle measurement method believes that human life span is the product of the cell division number and division cycle. Cells divide more than 50 times since the embryonic stage, with an average division cycle of 2.4 years. It is estimated that the maximum human life span is at least 120 years old. According to the calculation of sexual maturity period, the maximum natural life span of human beings should be 112-150 years old. The growth period measurement algorithm estimates that the natural life span of human beings is 100-175 years old. Pregnancy measurement methods predict that a person’s natural lifespan can reach up to 167 years. The above calculation results show that the normal natural life span of human beings should be more than 100 years old.

With the improvement of human environmental sanitation and the improvement of public health quality, human life span is also continuously extended. During the Bronze Age 4,000 years ago, the average life span was only 18 years. In the 4,800 years from the Bronze Age to 1900 AD, human lifespan is estimated to have increased by approximately 27 years. In just 90 years from AD 1900 to 1990, the rate of increase was at least that much.

Question 2. The tallest man

The undisputed tallest man is American Robert Wardlow. His height before his death in 1940 was 2.72 meters. If he had lived one more year, his height would have exceeded 2.74 meters. The world's "real" (without pathological cause) giant was Angus McCaskill, who was 2.36 meters tall when he died in Canada in 1863.

The current tallest person in the United States is Manute Bol, who is 2.31 meters tall. He was born in Sudan in 1962 and is now a U.S. citizen. He has played for the Philadelphia 76ers and other basketball teams. .

The tallest living person in the UK is Christopher Greener, who is 2.29 meters tall.

The tallest living person in Tunisia is Radhouani Chalbi. He underwent strict measurements on April 22 and 23, 1999, and his height was 2.359 meters.

The tallest woman was Zeng Jinlian from Hunan Province, China. She was 2.48 meters tall when she died in 1982.

Sandy Allen is the tallest living woman, with a height of 2.317 meters. She was 1.905 meters tall when she was 10 years old. Her current weight is 209.5 kilograms.

The tallest couple were Anna Hanan Swann of Canada and Martin von Brunn Bates of the United States, who were respectively 2.27 meters and 2.20 meters tall when they married in 1871.

There are different opinions on the tallest person in the world who is still alive. Is "Xishun" from Inner Mongolia the tallest? Why can you apply for Guinness? Take a look at the following contradictory report:

There is a tall man in Inner Mongolia, China, nicknamed "Herdsman No. 1", named Xishun, who is 2.38 meters tall. He is 12 centimeters taller than basketball star Yao Ming (Yao Ming is 2.26 meters tall). Today, the tallest person in Hubei is Zhang Juncai, who is listed as "Asia's No. 1 Giant" by the Guinness Book of World Records. He was born in 1966 and is as tall as 2.42 meters. The day before yesterday, he was walking on the streets of Wuhan, Hubei Province, standing out from the crowd, attracting the attention of many passers-by.

Last year, the media said that a Ukrainian athlete was 2.53 meters tall. There were also some different reports. It was impossible to confirm whether "Xishun" can be regarded as the world's number one alive.

Question three. Adil Ahmed, a 24-year-old Pakistani, is 37 inches (approximately 93.98 centimeters) tall, making him the shortest person in the world.

According to the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records, Indian Gul Muhammad became the shortest man in the world with a height of 22 feet (approximately 55.88 cm). But de Mohammed died in 1999, so Ahmed is now the world's shortest man.

Question 4. Ever since someone saw the Yeti in the Himalayas for the first time in 1958, Chinese scientists have begun to explore the savages. In order to completely solve the mystery of the savages in China, the country established the world's largest scientific expedition team to Shennongjia in history. Did they find any savages? In 2000, another tourist took photos of savages. Do savages really exist? Professor Feng Zuojian from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences raised the strongest objection. Because experts who believe there are savages lack one basic piece of evidence, and that is living bodies! And are those savage witnesses all lying?

Question 4

Recently, CCTV specially invited Yuan Zhenxin, a researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a researcher at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in the "Science History" program. Feng Zuojian, secretary-general of the society and chairman of the Beijing Zoological Society, was a guest and answered questions about the mystery of China's "savages". However, the two scientists came to completely opposite conclusions. Yuan Zhenxin stated his research results of more than 30 years with gusto, and said conclusively that "savages" definitely exist; but Feng Zuojian categorically refuted: "Telling stories about 'savages' is similar to telling stories about ghosts, and 'savages' definitely do not exist. Exist!" So, do "savages" exist? Let us listen to what these two experts have to say, and let us all judge:

1. "Savages" have long been recorded in ancient books

On the CCTV screen , the audience seemed very proud to see Yuan Zhenxin sitting opposite the host. He really told the host everything he had "experienced" vividly and vividly like telling a story. Yuan Zhenxin said: I have been dealing with "savages" for more than 30 years. Moreover, it was found from the Zhou Dynasty documents that the southern natives paid tribute to two "savages" to the palace. The time, place, and characters are recorded in the ancient books, and they are clearly remembered. The Chu people called "savages" "mountain ghosts", and the poems about "mountain ghosts" more clearly describe their characteristics such as liking to laugh, hiding in the woods, being shy, and running away when they see people; "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" "", the "savage" is called "玃, orangutan, baboon"; during the reign of Song Xining, the "savage" was called "anti-dog Jialei" because of its loud voice. It lived in the emperor's harem for 40 years and often disturbed the maids, but the guards Not daring to catch it, it even went to the concubine's palace to cause trouble. Yuan Zhenxin also said that the famous scholar Li Shizhen also collected ancient books in his famous monograph "Compendium of Materia Medica" and clearly recorded that there was a "savage", but at that time it was called "baboons, human bears, and Shandu".

2. The "Savage" was first discovered in 1954 and was called the "Snowman"

Yuan Zhenxin said that the British photographed the "Snowman" footprints in the Himalayas in 1954. During the movie, the photographer also saw with his own eyes that the "snowman" was a thing that walked upright. However, he could not trace it and could only see the footprints it left in the snow. Yuan Zhenxin believes that the "snowman" actually lives in the canyon and is easily discovered when crossing the canyon, so the "snowman" should be called the "savage in the forest." Yuan Zhenxin said that someone in China saw a real "savage" in 1958. An important discovery was made the following year and the actual object was obtained. At that time, a yak was killed by a "snowman" on the border between China and Nepal. "We found hair. Some people thought it was a bear, and it looked like a girl's hair. However, when we went to Beijing for testing, it was ruled out. It proved that the eyewitnesses were talking about an unknown animal, a 'snowman.'" .

3. Stories told by eyewitnesses

Yuan Zhenxin also told the following story told by eyewitnesses: In 1974, in Fangxian County, Hubei Province, a production captain was on a hillside in Qinglongzhai. As I was cutting vines, I heard footsteps behind me. When he turned around, he saw an upright animal rushing to catch him. At this time, the production team leader turned over, grabbed his hair, and chopped his hand with a sickle. But the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences sent people to investigate and found that it was a ridiculous joke. Two years later, in 1976, six cadres from the Shennongjia Forest District held a meeting in Yunnan. In the middle of the night, the daughter of one of the cadres had a high fever, and several of them drove back with her. While driving at the junction of Fangxian County and Shennongjia until 1 a.m., the driver seemed to see a red-haired animal in front of him. When the car's headlights illuminated it, the thing was translucent, with a big belly, short forelimbs, high hindlimbs, and a long face. It was not a bear. , no one dared to catch it. One of them, the director of agriculture and forestry named Zhou, picked up a stone and hit it on the butt, causing it to run away. According to eyewitness descriptions, it looks like a bear. Shennongjia is also known as Bear Mountain. Is this an illusion?

4. Soviet experts believe they are descendants of giant apes

Do hairy people and savages really exist? Yuan Zhenxin said that the place where we went to investigate was not far from where the "savage" was found. At that time, a local woman named Gong Yulan said that one day she climbed over the cliff and saw a red pile that was 2 meters high. Duo Gao smiled at her. She panicked and the guy chased her. Gong Yulan was so scared that she sweated and shouted "savage"!

On July 19, Professor Huang Wanbo went to investigate and found hairs 1.3 meters and 1.5 meters away from the tree trunk where the "savage" was tickling, which was obviously different from bear hair. Suspicion began in 1959 that it was a giant ape. At that time, Soviet experts also expressed their opinions on the "hairy man" discovered in the Qinling Mountains. They thought it was a giant ape. According to reports, there was a laboratory technician named Fan Jingquan in the investigation team at that time. He had chatted with two old landlords. The two old men married a wife because they were poor. Fan asked them why they didn't raise chickens and ducks. The old men replied that there were "hairy people" who would come to eat chicken, and asked Fan Jingquan to come with them to see it at dusk. Finally, I saw two "hairy people", a mother and a child. Fan was very excited to come back. The old man told Fan that the villain was already 7 years old. Soviet experts recorded these in detail and said that they were probably descendants of the great apes. Mr. Pei Wenzhong, a famous paleoanthropologist, also studied Quaternary animal fossils in the mountains of Guangxi. He found that generally animal groups start small, then spread out in large groups, and when they reach their maximum size, the environment changes and eventually become extinct. The great apes are similar to the panda. Parallel development, not extinction at the maximum. In the past, it was thought that pandas were extinct based on their head count. The result was later discovered in the Qinling Mountains. Ancient books record that pandas are called "tapir beast, flower bear, and white bear." In the tomb of an empress dowager in the Tang Dynasty, a panda skull was also unearthed.

5. Yuan Zhenxin said that he had close encounters with "savages"

Yuan Zhenxin also served as the director of the Beijing Ape Man Site Museum and joined the "savage" investigation team in 1976. He said that he and Professor Huang Wanbo had heard about another incident: At that time, Teacher He Xicui of Anyang Commune took several children to find the guy ("savage") stroking his hair in Tianziping, 1,400 meters above sea level. Teacher He was frightened when he saw it. He wanted to run, but the guy turned around and walked away after hearing it. The demobilized soldiers reported that I found "savage" footprints. When I went to see them, I saw them very clearly. So we walked and followed each other, "It's a ghost, and it walked as we walked. What impressed me most was that it slipped when it stepped over the trunk of the tree, and stuck its toes in. We found a hair. But it was getting dark, and Staff Liao Said two people can't handle it.

The forest was dense and the mountains were huge, but we were so excited that we were panting and sweating. "In 1977, the northern Hubei exotic animal expedition team went. There were more than 100 people in the expedition team. One soldier's gun misfired, but the investigation was inconclusive. Later people went to Tielugou, near the very steep ridge, and found a A large footprint was seen at the entrance of the cave, and there were pupa shells and small animal hairs in the feces. When a reporter asked: Why didn't we see a living body of a "savage"? Yuan Zhenxin replied: At that time, we had a sharpshooter named Yuan Yuta, who was nearby. The "savage" observed the "savage" for more than two hours at a distance of 200 meters, but did not shoot because the then Hubei Secretary Chen Pixian and the governor Han Ningfeng emphasized that the "savage" was not allowed to be killed. More than 320 people, including Zhao Tan, witnessed the "savage" and the latest photo of the "savage" was taken by 16 tourists who went to Shennongjia last year.

But after that photo was shown. , on the specially drawn arrows, it is still difficult for people to see the traces of "savages"

6. Feng Zuojian denounced "savages" as pseudoscience

Researcher Feng Zuojian led. Sitting in front of the host Jiang Yong with a very serious face, he seemed to be very excited and said that this is a question of science and pseudoscience, and there is no academic debate, because from a scientific point of view, the so-called "savages" are fundamental. It doesn’t exist. “Telling stories about ‘savages’ is almost like telling stories about ghosts! "

Feng Zuojian said that in 1962 we went to Xishuangbanna to investigate. The county leaders there were very calm when talking about the matter. They thought that judging from the color and size of the coat and the reports from the people, it was a gibbon. Because 60 At the beginning of the century, there were still a lot of gibbons. In 1974, there was a production team leader named Yin Hongfa in Fang County, Hubei Province. He said that he was going up the mountain to cut firewood and heard some noise not far away. When he asked, no one answered and he continued to work. So Yin grabbed its head and chopped it. The "savage" screamed in pain, and Yin grabbed its hair and chopped it again, pulling out 27 hairs. In mid-June, a breeder named Zhu Guoqiang in Pianlong District, Fang County, sniffed the cattle. When Zhu made a sound, he saw a "savage" who was more than 1 meter tall, with red eyes, red hair all over his body, and curved nails more than an inch long. Zhu stabbed him with a musket, but the "savage" held on because the muzzle of the gun was pointed at " Zhu Guoqiang shot the "savage" into his stomach, and then ran back quickly.

Feng Zuojian believed that these two so-called stories of encounters with "savages" lacked basic scientific basis.

7. Feng Zuojian said that eyewitness descriptions lacked scientific basis

Feng Zuojian, an expert on animal research, pointed out that in these two stories, the "savages" have the same point in being passively standing in front of people. Animal behaviors include foraging, protecting young, mates, etc. These behaviors are all for protecting themselves, surviving and reproducing. The instinct of animals is to take the initiative when encountering wild beasts, and primates are even better at protecting themselves. The "savage" in the story of the two "savages" does not conform to the basic behavioral rules of wild animals. The so-called "savage" hair was sliced ??and scanned to be consistent with the hair of ungulates, and it was found about ten meters away from Yin Hongfa. The animal skin was actually the hair of a common local animal called "hunting antelope". Twenty-five years later, the expert visited him again and chatted with him. Yin Hongfa said that he did not want the children to run around and scare them. At that time, Zhu Guoqiang had a local official, Li Jian, who also visited him. He couldn't come to Taiwan for a while. We later analyzed that Zhu Guoqiang did not tell lies intentionally. It was probably because he had a nightmare. We cannot assume that there are "savages" based on the idea that they are poor and lower-middle peasants and grassroots cadres will not tell lies. We need scientific evidence. That is to say, if there are indeed "savages", there will not be just one or two. , but a group, otherwise they would not be able to survive. If there are indeed "savages", we will definitely be able to find their living bodies. However, in the past half century, no living "savages" have been found, so they are called "savages". "Existence is nonsense.

8. The media reported again: The mysterious "savage" reappeared in Shennongjia

It is a coincidence that just as experts were arguing on the screen, there was another rumor in the Shennongjia forest area. Come and encounter news about animals that look like humans but are not monkeys.

Some media reported that recently, Qiu Hu, deputy mayor of Hongping Town, Shennongjia Forestry District, and Fu Chuanjin, director of Hongping Forestry Station, saw "savages" at close range. The following story is as vivid as it was decades ago:

On this day, Zhu Shizhang, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Shennongjia Forestry District and director of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, and other party and government leaders happened to go to Hongping Town to inspect the conversion of farmland to forest and grassland. Work. Since Qiu Hu was in charge of this work, after receiving the notice, he and Fu Chuanjin rushed to Hongping Town from Bancangping, a hundred miles away, overnight. At 11:40 pm, when the car drove about 250 meters away from the Yuanqiao Donggou Highway, stationmaster Fu saw an animal that looked like a human but not a monkey walking upright 20 meters away from the car in front of the road. When the car lights suddenly shone on the When it hit him, it hurriedly crossed the road and fled quickly towards the primeval forest in the direction of Yinyu River; it waved its arms to push aside the trees. It makes a loud and crisp sound. I saw that it was covered with gray-yellow fur, like withered yellow grass, and had no tail; it was bent over as it strode across the road, its body was fat, and it weighed about 100 kilograms or more; judging from its long stride across the road, Look, it's very clever and flexible, and it disappears in a few seconds.

Stationmaster Fu drove the jeep forward another 100 meters. When the car was about to drive onto National Highway 209, Deputy Mayor Qiu suddenly woke up. Could it be the "savage" that people often call it? So, he said to the stationmaster: "Drive the car back quickly and have a look. It would be great if it is really a savage!" When the car returned to the bridge cave and got off, Qiu and Fu Sure enough, the two found some scattered human-shaped bare footprints, two of which were very clear. They were obviously the two footprints of the "savage" when they crossed the road.

Deputy Mayor Qiu gestured with his open fingers. The footprints were as long as two palms, about 40 centimeters and 15 to 17 centimeters wide. The four toes were together and the thumb was turned out, which was about the same length as the other four toes. 70 degrees; the two barefoot prints are 2 to 2.2 meters apart. Stationmaster Fu immediately shouted loudly: "These are the footprints left by that guy just now. They are definitely not bears. I have worked in Shennongjia for so many years in forestry, and I am very familiar with bears!"

9. The head of the forest district said that humanoid animals have a long history

According to Tan Hui, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and district chief of the Shennongjia Forest District, there has been a legend of "savages" in the Shennongjia area since ancient times. In this area, hundreds of people witnessed the "savage".

Lu Dexian, director of the Propaganda Department of the Shennongjia Forest District, said in an interview that judging from the situations reported by many people, we believe that they did encounter "savages"; from the autumn of 1994 to April 1996, wild people The expedition team has completed a preliminary exploration expedition to Shennongjia and northwest Hubei. Involving more than 20 towns and villages in Shennongjia and northwest Hubei, covering an area of ??nearly 1,000 square kilometers, the visit and investigation lasted for more than a year, and a large amount of relevant information about strange animals (savages) and strange natural phenomena was obtained, and some relevant information was observed and verified on the spot. , the expedition investigated some mysterious primitive areas. Through careful research and analysis, experts believe that the strange species "Savage" does exist.

10. Local leaders call for: It is urgent to identify unknown species!

Tan Hui said that in terms of historical development, the "mystery of the savages" has troubled us humans for thousands of years. With the development of science and technology, we have the responsibility to uncover this mystery of the world. Since the sighting of "savages" in Chun Shuya in 1976, when the Chinese Academy of Sciences sent its first scientific expedition team, it has accumulated a wealth of first-hand field research data. In just over 20 years, people have continued to encounter them, and new discoveries have continued to be made. discovery. There are various signs that there is indeed a mysterious and strange animal living in this world together with us humans. Where did humans come from? This is an ancient question that humans have speculated since the early days of ignorance. However, to this day, there are missing links in the fossils in the systematic theory of evolution from apes to humans, and scientists still cannot describe the entire birth process of humans. Detailed drawings.

"Savages" may be the "living fossils" in the process of human evolution that answer these questions. They contain the mystery of human origins, waiting for us to uncover!

Lu Dexian believes , At present, the Three Gorges Dam is under intensive construction, and the completion of water storage is just around the corner.

This will inevitably form a new regional microclimate, and the ecological environment in the Shennongjia area is also likely to change accordingly. Therefore, we should seize the time to identify unknown species in the area. This will not only enrich the background material of local animal and plant resources, but also avoid regrets caused by environmental changes.

11. Academician Wu Xinzhi: I was the first to be assigned to investigate the "savages"

No matter how people have different opinions about the "savages", we should not listen to the speeches that came to Nanjing to attend the International Ancient Times not long ago. What did Wu Xinzhi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former director of the Paleoanthropology Office of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, say about the "savages" at the Annual Meeting of Human Sciences? When answering reporters' questions about "savages", Academician Wu said: "In China, I was probably the first person assigned to investigate the 'savages'. However, as of today, more than 40 years later, no concrete evidence has been found. It is just a rumor, but it has always been paid attention to by the media. "Not long ago, it was said that the local government of Shennongjia also organized a "savage" hunting tour to attract tourists, and distributed tranquilizer bullets to tourists. For this reason, Academician Wu Xinzhi felt the need to speak to set the record straight.

12. Gibbons bring out the "savage" story

Academician Wu Xinzhi said that in 1960, the slash-and-burn farming method was still practiced in many places in the mountainous areas of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. Later, there were rumors that there were "savages" in the mountains, which frightened the villagers. So the local government reported it to the central government, and the relevant central departments handed over the task to the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing Zoology. Institute and Kunming Institute of Zoology, eight of us, under the leadership of experts from the two institutes, Academician Wu Rukang and Professor Pan Qinghua, walked for several months carrying dry food in the dense forests of Xishuangbanna. As a result, we caught two gibbons, and we put them in the The villagers were asked to identify them at the door of the county guest house. It turned out that the so-called "savages" were them. In the 1970s, news came about that there were "savages" in Shennongjia. It turned out that a local propaganda minister graduated from Beijing Normal University and was very interested in this matter. . He went to Beijing to find Wang Song, an expert from the Institute of Zoology, to check. After Wang Song went there, he found that there was no basis for it and denied it. However, the minister was still reluctant and went to the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, hoping to send someone to investigate. Academician Wu Xinzhi was the director of the Human Resources Department at the time. He believed in Wang Song's judgment and did not send anyone there.

13. Solving the mystery of the "Wild Child"

Academician Wu Xinzhi said that later. The Business Section of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences received another telegram of more than 200 words from local cadres claiming that they had witnessed a "savage". So some comrades from the institute decided to set out to investigate. After several months of visiting the scene. The investigation found nothing. Later, some people established a "savage" research association, and there was news that "savage" footprints, hairs left on tree trunks, etc. were found. Not long after, a teacher from Shanghai went there again. After investigating the area, he heard that a local woman went up the mountain to cut firewood and was raped by a "wild man" and gave birth to a "wild child" with a small head and a protruding snout, which looked like an ape-man. However, he dug out the body of the "wild child". The remains were brought back to Shanghai, and a message was sent out saying that they were descendants of Ramapithecus. After seeing the report, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency called Ouyang Caiwei planned to publish an English version, and asked Academician Wu Xinzhi for his opinion. "At that time, I thought it might be a pathology. After seeing the skull, she suggested that she ask the reporter at the Shanghai Press Station to take the skull to the Shanghai Medical College for consultation with the pathology department teacher. If it was not pathological, she could consider publishing it. Later, Xinhua News Agency did not publish the article. "A few years later, Professor Han Kangxin from the Institute of Archeology went to Shanghai to find out that the skull was the result of "cerebellar disease", and the mystery of the "Wild Child" was solved.