Who is the oldest hominid in China? How much do you know?

At present, whenever the earliest primitive humans in China are mentioned, the word "Yuanmou people" generally springs up in our minds. However, this issue is actually controversial, because Chinese archaeologists have excavated about 2 million years old primitive human bones in Longping Village, Miaoyu Town, Wushan County, Chongqing City, and they are called "Wushan people".

The excavation of the bones of the Wushan people has shaken the status of the Yuanmou people as "the earliest primitive humans in China" to a certain extent, making it a difficult problem to solve when human beings appeared in the land of China.

However, due to the lack of fossil materials, there is still a huge controversy about whether Wushan people are humans or apes. Wu Xinzhi, a famous paleontologist, disagrees with the statement that he is a human being, and the international paleontological community basically has a negative attitude towards Wushan people.

There are also some people who believe that Wushan people are human beings, for example, Dr. Wei Guangbiao believes that perhaps in physical anthropology, Wushan people are still in the stage of "apes", but in archaeology.

, they belong to the category of "people"; Millions of years ago, they were in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

In the semi-enclosed forest and river environment, a new set of skills was created, from relying on natural tools to relying on self-made stone tools, and then crossed the threshold of human beings.

All in all, the available evidence cannot determine who is the earliest primitive man in China between the Yuanmou Man and the Wushan Man, nor can it be determined whether the Wushan Man is a man or an ape, and it is also possible to temporarily determine that the Yuanmou Man is the earliest primitive man in China. It should be pointed out that it is not that only the discovery of human fossils can prove the existence of ancient humans, the nature and age of the cultural relics such as stone products found in Wushan Keel Slope are conclusive, and the "Wushan Man" (not equal to the Wushan Man fossils that have been discovered) who created these relics must also have them, but the producers of stone tools may not have the remains in the place, and even if they do, they may not necessarily be excavated.

Academics generally believe that the earliest hominins in China were Homo erectus. So far, the earliest hominin found in China is the Yuanmou man in Yunnan. It was about 1.7 million years ago.

The fossils of Homo erectus found in China include Peking Man Ape Man, Yunnan Yuanmou Man, Shaanxi Lantian Man, Anhui Hexian Man, Hubei Yunxian Man, Nanjing Tangshan Man, Shandong Yiyuan Man and so on. The Yuanmou Man fossil is a fossil of 2 teeth (maxillary ** incisors), which was discovered in Yuanmou, Yunnan Province in 1965, and the dating data is 1.7 million years ago. Yuanmou Man is older than other Chinese Homo erectus, such as Lantian Man (lived 1.15 million years ago) and Peking Man (lived about 580,000 years ago).

For a long time, the paleoanthropological community has regarded Yuanmou Man as the earliest ancient human in China and written it into textbooks.

The oldest hominid in China is the Yuanmou Man, about 1.7 million years ago, and I don't know much about the rest.

Yuanmou people. At this time, people walked upright, which was found in the place of Yuanmou in Yunnan, and they used some tools, and their lives were relatively simple about 1.7 million years ago.

It should be a Yuanmou person, who has understood a lot of content, understood the evolution process of human beings, understood the history of human development, and learned relevant textbook knowledge.