“我们从何处来,我们将到何处去?”这一古老的哲学命题,千百年来给人以无尽的迷惘和痛苦的思索。1965年5月,一个惊人的发现,在云南发现的“元谋人”距今约有170万年,是我们已知的祖国境内最早的人类。这样的字句写在了中学《中国历史》教科书上,从此,处于中国大陆西南一隅的云 “Where do we come from and where are we going?” This ancient philosophical proposition has given thousands of years of endless confusion and painful thinking. In May 1965, an astonishing discovery that the “Yuanmou people” discovered in Yunnan Province was about 1.7 million years ago is the earliest known human being in our motherland. Such words are written in the middle school “history of China” textbook, since then, in the corner of southwest China’s cloud