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Since the author participated in the excavations at the Yuanmou Man’s sites in 1973, he has been devoting himself into the examinations and researches on the palaeoanthropology in the Yuanmou Basin for almost 35years. The examinations and researches of the Yuanmou Man and the Yuanmou culture which concerns the fossils of Hominoidea and the prehistoric stone ages. As the name of this book All about Yuanmou Man-the paths of 30 years palaeoanthropological researches in the Yuanmou Basin, the author gives a comprehensive review of these works.
These examinations and researches primarily focus on the Yuanmou Man and their culture involved three issues, the nature of the fossils, the dates of antiquity, and the possible use of fire. The author concluded that the Yuanmou Man is one of the early Homo erecius which was discovered in the Asian Continent so far. Whose morphological characteristics close to the traits of Homo habilis and Homo ergaster in Africa. There similarities implied that the Yuanmou Man survived during the early Pleistocene 1700000(±100000)bp; they might not only have produced and used simple stone tools but also used fire, yet there were not convictive evidences for later.
The researches also discussed the origins of the Yuanmou Man. The author excluded that the Yunnan fossil apes (includes Yuanmou fossil apes) were not the ancestors of modern humans and he suggested that traits of the Yunnan fossil apes were just old primary properties which closed to the Pongos rather than the Homo. This kind of mixed property indicated that they might look like the common ancestor of humans and apes, however, they did not evolve into neither humans nor the orangutan but evolved into another branch similar to “Wushan Man” and the fossils of Hominoidea at the Gigantopithecus Cave in Liucheng, and extinct at the similar.

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