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Among the relics of the Peking people discovered in Zhoukoudian, there are not only a large number of stone tools, but also many tools made of animal bones or horns - bone tools. A more important discovery is the evidenc···
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Although Anderson noticed as early as 1921 that there were some white bladed vein quartz fragments at the site where the Peking Man fossils were later unearthed (later known as the "First Site"), although, since 1927, th···
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In the early 20th century, some Western scholars, based on the evolution of mammals and changes in the natural environment since the Tertiary Period, inferred that Central Asia (including northwest China and Mongolia), t···
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The discovery of ancient human fossils in Zhoukoudian made Bu Dasheng, who was deeply involved in the "Central Asian Fever", extremely excited. He decided to include the excavation and research of Zhoukoudian as a "relat···
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The origin of the hominid family represented by Ardipithecus and Australopithecus was an evolutionary leap, marking the differentiation of the human family from other groups of higher primates. The next leap was a leap w···
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We already know that the oldest groups of members of the family Hominidae known so far are basically found in the east of the African continent. But the story doesn't end there. Early human footprints In 1976, a research···
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While Dart and Bloom continued to discover Australopithecus in South Africa, the famous British paleoanthropologists Leakey and his wife (Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) were also working hard in East Africa. On July 17, 1···
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In China, there have been legends and myths about "dragon" for a long time. The Chinese have known for a long time that there are often hard, stone-like animal bones and teeth buried underground. These bones and teeth ca···
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Influenced by the idea of evolution, especially by the German Darwinist Haeckel, the young Dutch doctor Dubois firmly believed that humans would be found in Indonesia (referred to as Indonesia, which was a Dutch colony a···
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Humanity's understanding of its own development history began with modern Homo sapiens, then early Homo sapiens, and then Homo erectus, and finally determined the status of Homo habilis and Australopithecus ape as human ···
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Ancient humans were very interested in their own origins and compiled a variety of myths and legends. For example, in China, thousands of years ago, our ancestors had stories about Pangu creating the world and Nuwa creat···
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In Africa more than 100,000 years ago, the earliest humans appeared who were identical in body anatomy to modern humans. They were called late Homo sapiens, modern Homo sapiens, or simply modern humans by paleoanthropolo···
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Some scholars at home and abroad believe that E. sinensis is not a higher primate. The reason is that it shows many primitive characteristics than those early higher primates in Africa, and its materials are not complete···
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In 1985, paleoanthropologist Lin Yipu discovered some ancient mammal fossils in the fissure accumulation of the Jellyfish Mountain quarry in Shanghuang Town, Liyang County (now Liyang City). After returning to Beijing, h···
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Today, people are no longer unfamiliar with the evolution from apes to humans. Curious humans still want to know when, where and what kind of animals the apes that became humans evolved. of. This is one of the hottest re···
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The status of human beings in the biological classification system is: Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Subphylum Vertebrates, Class Mammalia, Order Primates, Suborder Anthropoid, Suborder Stenorrhinus, Superfamily Hom···
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When talking about rats or mice, people always think of their bad habits such as stealing food, destroying crops, and even spreading diseases. The idiom "when a rat crosses the street, everyone shouts to beat it" fully e···
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In the early Eocene, a small animal called Paleoartiodactyl differentiated from the anklets. In addition to having a proximal pulley similar to that of perissodactyls, its talus also had a pulley-like distal end. It's a ···
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In the North American continent during the early Eocene 50 million years ago, a fox-sized herbivore emerged from the primitive arthropods. It was called Eohorse. In fact, it was not only the ancestor of modern horses, bu···
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The history of carnivores can be traced back to protozoa hundreds of millions of years ago, when amoebas ate other single-celled organisms. Throughout the entire history of life, carnivores have continued to introduce ne···
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Modern whales have smooth skin and streamlined body shapes. Their huge tails create huge waves in the sea water, pushing their bodies to swim freely in the sea. But did you know that in the distant geological time, whale···
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During the period starting from the Eocene and continuing to the Oligocene, the ancestors of modern mammals stood out from certain species in the ancient mammal group, and based on this, the first evolution of mammals af···
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The earliest true beasts were insectivores (order) that appeared in the Cretaceous. After entering the Cenozoic Era, the eutherians differentiated from this basis and evolved at a very fast speed, resulting in a wide ran···
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Almost at the same time as the origin of marsupials, another more progressive mammal differentiated from the ancient beasts. The allantoic membrane they inherited from the eggs of their ancient reptilian ancestors came i···
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