一、引言我们封於人类进化论大都感到兴趣,无疑地这是由於它研究我们自身发展的歷史。根據现有资料,人类发展的全史可以上溯到五、六十万年,甚至一百万年以前。在这样悠久的时代里,我们的祖先歷盡坚辛,和环境斗争,積累劳动成果,運用智慧思想,创造了本身,也创造了文化。假使我们同意人类发展三个階段的说法,第一階段是猿人(Pithecanthropus)时期,中国猿人(Sinanthropus)是典型的例子;第二階段是原人或古人(Palaeanthropus)时期,倪安德達人((Nean- I. INTRODUCTION We are most interested in the theory of human evolution, no doubt because of its history of studying our own development. According to available information, the entire history of human development can be traced back to 500,000 to 600,000 or even a million years ago. In such a long period of time, our ancestors experienced their own struggles and struggled with the environment. They accumulated their fruits of labor and used their wisdom to create and create their own culture. If we agree with the three stages of human development, the first stage is the Pithecanthropus period, the Sinanthropus is a typical example; the second stage is the Palaeanthropus period, the Nean-