约50万年前的北京猿人是不是中国人的祖先?学术界一直存在着很大的争议。上个世纪三十年代初,北京猿人头盖骨的发现,被认为是支持“多区起源”假说的重要化石证据。考古学家认为约50万年前的北京猿人是中国人的祖先。以遗传生物学家为代表的另一方则提出了“走出非洲”的假说。认为现在生活在世界各地的人群均起源于非洲,是单一起源的,在 Peking Man about 500,000 years ago is not the ancestors of Chinese people? Academic circles there has been a lot of controversy. The discovery of Beijing ape skulls in the early 1930s was considered as an important fossil evidence supporting the hypothesis of “multi-zone origin.” Archeologists believe Peking ape people about 500,000 years ago are Chinese ancestors. The other, represented by genetic biologists, put forward the hypothesis of “going out of Africa.” Believing that people now living in all parts of the world originate in Africa and are single-sourced,