1986年我曾为《百科知识》第8期写过这样的文章,现在我用同样的题目,来向《百科知识》的读者介绍近年来这方面的新进展。人类起源的研究近年来有了很大进展,与其有关的猿类和人类化石有了很多新发现,研究方法从宏观到微观、从形态到生态更为多样化。原先存在的不少问题,有些得到了解决,有些有了更多和更深入的理解。但另一方面,在整个人类发展过程中。也提出了不少新问题,现在还不清楚或是无法解答。人类起源中的一些重要的根 I wrote such an article for Encyclopedia No. 8 in 1986, and I now use the same topic to introduce Encyclopedic readers to recent advances in this area in recent years. In recent years, great progress has been made in the study of human origin. Many new discoveries have been made in the related apes and human fossils. Research methods range from macroscopic to microcosmic and from morphology to ecology. Many of the problems that existed before, some were solved, and some more and more deeply understood. But on the other hand, throughout human development. Also raised a lot of new issues, it is not clear or can not answer. Some important roots in human origin