近日,《自然》杂志发表了一篇题为《中国正在改写人类起源学说》的文章,谈到在现代人起源问题上,中国学者同世界主流学界的分歧。如今越来越多的证据表明,现代人的祖先全部来自于非洲;而大多数中国学者则坚持认为,现代东亚人的祖先是以“北京人”为代表的亚洲直立人,同来自非洲、欧亚等其他地区的人种混合繁衍而来。其实有关中国人起源问题,早在晚清时期,就多有争论。后来随着考古发掘的深入,及现代科 Recently, Nature magazine published an article titled “China is Rewriting the Origin of Human Origin,” addressing the disagreement between Chinese scholars and mainstream scholars in the world about the origins of modern people. Nowadays more and more evidences show that modern ancestors are all from Africa. Most Chinese scholars insist that the ancestors of modern East Asians are Asian Homo-Straits represented by “Pekingese” and come from Africa , Europe and Asia and other areas of ethnic mixed reproduce. In fact, there are many controversies over the origins of Chinese people as early as the late Qing period. Later, with the deepening of archaeological excavations, and modern subjects