The ancient ancestors of mankind are, the earliest human ancestors

The ancestors of humans were apes. Apes began to emerge in the Oligocene, about 30 million years ago. However, not all apes are direct ancestors of humans, and some apes are human"Uncle", some apes are human"Uncle"。

The apes, which anthropologists consider to be the ancestors of humans, appeared very late. It is the Rama ape, named after one of the heroic princes of the ancient Indian epics, Rama (Rama's translation is now unified as Rama). They lived about 10 million to 15 million years ago.

Rama apes were first discovered in Mount Sivalik, India, Pakistan. In the late 60s of this century, Rudaaucus found in the Early Eocene coal seams of Hungary also belonged to Rama ape. In particular, a fairly complete mandible fossil of the Rama ape type found in the limeba coal kiln in Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, China in 1976 is the most complete and closest to the early ancestor of humans of the same kind found in the world.

The time is also more than 10 million years ago. According to the excavations, the body of Lufeng Australopithecus is the size of a chimpanzee, with a short snout and underdeveloped canine teeth, which is not commonly used by ordinary apes"**"。However, their intelligence is slightly higher than that of other animals, which, combined with their frequent activities in the open ground, prompts them to further divide their hands and feet.

Therefore, it is believed that Lufeng Australopithecus was able to grasp branches or other natural objects with their hands for defense and feeding. In this case, the hands have been divided, and the legs should be able to stand upright.

The earliest ancestors of humans were apes.

More than 12 million years ago, forest apes were widely distributed in Africa, Asia and Europe, especially in the tropical jungles of Africa, one of the forest apes was a modern ape, mainly arboreal life, and the other was forced to go down to the ground to live due to environmental changes, and slowly evolved into humans, it can be seen that the relationship between humans and apes is the closest, is a close relative, and they have a common primitive ancestor is forest Australopithecus.

Archaeological History:

After the discovery of "Lucy", a group of archaeologists visited Tanzania, Africa, passing by a boulder and a scientist accidentally fell. Unexpectedly, this accidental fall actually found a piece of human footprints left by volcanic ash that had not dried up 3 million years ago.

It was an adult and a child, 3.7 million years ago, side by side, still holding hands, so close that the footprints were very close. They walked with great difficulty on this land that had not yet dried up, shallow and deep, and disappeared at the end.

These footprints are no longer indistinguishable from modern humans, the big toe and the other toes are juxtaposed with everything, not separated like the apes, and the big toe is significantly longer than the other toes, and from the footprint marks, it is completely upright walking.

That is, before "Lucy", there were already earlier human beings, and they still walked upright.

According to modern genetic research, both Caucasians, blacks, and yellows all originated in Africa, only to leave 100,000 years ago, and spread across all continents.

Great ape scientists have discovered the earliest ancestors of humans.

A French team found fossilized bones and teeth of ancient humans in Kenya last year, and after research, scientists found that these may be the earliest ancestral remains ever discovered.

Researchers have shown the fossils to the world, pointing out that they are older than Lucy, an ancient human fossil found earlier, and that they may be more than twice as old as Lucy. This discovery will add more topics to the already fierce debate over the origins of mankind.

The fossils, which include 12 bones and teeth, were discovered last year in central Kenya and prove that Lucy did not have the true ancestor of humans. The latest discovery was announced at a press conference in Paris, and a week later scientists will name the fossil and officially announce the finding.

The oldest human fossils found earlier were found in Ethiopia, 4.5 million years old, and the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil was found in Ethiopia in 1974 and is similar to another branch of the human ancestor atlas, but some scientists disagree. Now, these newly discovered fossils prove that the apes were just able to stand up and walk, and that it is likely that Lucy was just a strange-looking ape.

According to research, the world's earliest human fossils are from Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province. Called Yuanmou. This species retains some of the characteristics of apes, from which it can be concluded that human ancestors were apes.