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人类起源地在哪里?长期以来是人们关心的热门话题之一。美国、日本、欧洲、非洲的一些科学家,依据在非洲发现了“南方古猿”化石及人类头骨及腿骨等化石而认为人类起源地在非洲。我国从1929年至今,在北京周口店地区发现“北京猿人”头盖骨化石有6个。现存有1956年发现的头盖骨化石。以后又陆续发现“元谋猿人”、“蓝田猿人”等猿人化石。对此,我国古人类学家贾兰坡教授在题为《对人类起源的思考》一文中认为:“人类既非起源于蒙古高原,也非起源于非洲,而是起源于东亚大陆的南部,即巴基斯坦以东及中国广大西南地区,因为在巴、印和中国的云南省都发现了有人类成分的猿型祖先化石,
Where is human origin? It has long been one of the hot topics people are concerned about. Some scientists in the United States, Japan, Europe and Africa have considered human origins in Africa based on the discovery of fossils such as Australopithecus and human skulls and leg bones in Africa. From 1929 to the present in our country, there are 6 skull fossils of ”Beijing ape-man“ found in Zhoukoudian area of Beijing. There are skull fossils found in 1956. Later found one after another ”Yuanmou ape man “, ”Lantian ape person “ and other ape fossils. In response, Professor Jalan Lan Pao, an ancient anthropologist in our country, said in his article entitled Reflections on the Origin of Humankind: ”Human beings originated not only from the Mongolian plateau but also from Africa but from the southern part of the East Asian continent. East of Pakistan, and most of southwestern China, because all humanoid ape-type ancestral fossils were found in Yunnan Province of Pakistan, India and China,