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hypotheses on the origins of modern humans
-multiregional hypothesis
-recent african origins hypothesis

through the recent african origins hypothesis is accepted by many anthropologists, not every scholar supports it. Among those with opposing views, Chinese anthropologists generally favor the multiregional hypothesis in part because it fits better with the fossil discoveries from Australia and Asia. The claim of ancient human roots in eastern Asia also resonates well with the region’s traditional ethnocentric ideas about China as the place of human origins and the world’s most ancient civilization-the center of humanity on earth, China is traditionally imagined as”the Middle Kingdom” (P90, Cultural Anthropology The human challenge)

the middle kingdom.

讀到這里，不禁覺得有些疑惑和好笑。人纇學，這們從西方創建的學科，還是對中國有太多的不了解。