How did humanity come to be? How did humans evolve?

How did humans develop?

The order is: Yuanmou Man, Peking Ape Man, Peak Cave Man, Hemudu Man, Banpo Man.

1. Yuanmou people: The tooth fossils of Yuanmou people were found in Shangnabang Village, Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province during the May Day in 1965, and Yuanmou County is known as the "hometown of Yuanmou people". In 1976, according to the paleomagnetic method, the age of life was about 1.7 million years ago, and the difference was no more than 100,000 years before and after (some scholars believe that the age should not exceed 730,000 years, that is, the gap may be between 600,000 and 500,000 years or later).

2. Peking Man (Peking Man): lived about 700,000 to 200,000 years ago. Peking Man was a Homo erectus who lived in Zhoukoudian, ancient Beijing, and used natural fire to make tools (stone tools), and for the first time humans achieved the ability to control a natural force.

They lived between 700,000 and 200,000 years ago, and still retained some of the characteristics of apes, but they had a clear division of hands and feet, could make and use tools, and used natural fire. The forests are dense, overgrown with wild grasses, and infested with wild beasts. The Pekingese beat stones into rough stone tools and cut branches into wooden sticks, waging a tough struggle against nature with the most primitive tools.

In such a hostile environment, it is impossible to live on the strength of a single person. Therefore, they often have dozens of people together, work together, share the fruits of labor together, and live in groups. This led to the formation of early primitive societies.

3. Cave Man: Cave Man, a human fossil from the Upper Paleolithic period in North China. It belongs to Homo sapiens in the late stage.

It is named after the cave found at the top of the Peking Man site in Zhoukoudian Dragon Bone Mountain, Beijing. Discovered in 1930, 1933 In 1934, the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the China Geological Survey was excavated by Pei Wenzhong. The age of the cave culture should be between about 10,000 years ago and about 10,000 years ago.

4. Hemudu people: ancient humans who lived in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River more than 7,000 years ago. They lived a sedentary life, lived in dry stilt houses, carried people and goods in boats and rafts, collected water by floating, used wooden tools such as knives, daggers, hammers, shovels, spears, bowls, tubes, sticks, handles, spinning wheels, and butterfly tools, cultivated artificial rice, raised livestock such as pigs, dogs and buffaloes, and dug wells.

The earliest lacquerware found in China was unearthed in Hemudu, and its pottery production was of a certain standard, with an estimated maximum firing temperature of 1,000 degrees Celsius.

5. Banpo people: Banpo culture is a typical representative of Yangshao culture in the Yellow River Basin. The Banpo site is just on the Qinchuan River, backed by the Bailu Plain, and in front of the Chan River, about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, when it was the middle of the Neolithic Age.

As a cultural site of Shangzhai in succession in time, there is Yanshan Mountain in the north, there is the Lu River in the south, and it is surrounded by mountains and rivers.

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Human development to the present day has gone through a long and complex process of progress. The development and progress of mankind is not the development of a single factor or the progress of a certain aspect, but the phased development and hierarchical progress of related multiple factors. In general, there are eight factors that play a leading role in human development and progress:

i.e. matter, consciousness, time, space, thinking, theory, needs, and methods. Specifically, from the origin of human beings to the future of human beings, the process of development and progress can be divided into six stages: the origin process of human beings, the primitive stage, the agricultural and pastoral stage, the industrial stage, the intelligent stage and the future of human beings.

In order to provide you with a comprehensive and systematic understanding of the process of human development and progress, I have drawn up a "map of human development and progress" based on the above eight factors and six stages. This article is an elaboration and explanation of the diagram.

With regard to human development, matter has developed greatly, but what about thinking? It's just circulating, or regressing, so to speak. Let's take China as an example, the early Oriental human beings were clan communes, Yao Shun represented and shoveled, and democracy is not the social environment that the world pursues and yearns for?

The process of human development is generally divided into 4 stages:

Early ape-man stage.

Late ape-man stage.

Early Homo sapiens stage.

Late Homo sapiens stage.

According to the fossil data, from ape to man, it passed through four stages: Dryopithe-cus, Ramapithecus, Australo-pithecus, and homo.

Forest apes flourished in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the late Oligocene and middle Miocene, and are the ancestors of various living apes. Rama Australopithecus evolved from a forest ape about 15 million years ago and lived 15 million to 8 million years ago. This fossil was first discovered (1932) in the Sivalik Mountains in India, and has since been found in Africa, Europe, and Yunnan, China.

It is generally believed that Ramapicus was an early representative of the transition stage from ape to man, and was the earliest member of the hominidae. But new fossil discoveries in recent years have increased suspicion that Ramapicus is a homogeneous species, with some suggesting that it is an advanced ape.

Australopithecus fossils were first discovered (1924) in South Africa, and their primitive type may be representative of the late transition from ape to man. From Australopithecus to modern humans. Labor played an important role in the evolution from apes to humans.

As a result of labor, the posture of the body changes from semi-upright to upright. Labor and language in turn promote the development of the brain, which in turn accelerates the transition from ape to man.