1. Without any reliable image or material evidence, "savage" is just an illusion of individuals.

2. The bodies, bones and fossils of "savage" have never been found, and there is no evidence in paleontology.

3. Some ecologists believe that the reproduction of a race needs a sufficient number of individuals, but indirect evidence can show that the number of animals is not enough to maintain the reproduction of a race, so it can be considered that "savage" does not exist.

4. Some people think that "Savage", as a higher primate, may have existed for a period of time in history, but due to the expansion of human civilization, habitat reduction, ecological destruction, environmental pollution and other reasons, this species has become extinct.

5. The existence of "savage" does not conform to the theory of evolution. There is no scientific basis for the statement that savage is a missing link in the evolution of ancient Homo sapiens and modern people.

6. Or think that "Savage" is just an unknown large primate of the family Monkey or Simian, and it is not higher than Simian.

A true point of view.

1. "Savage" was not captured alive, probably because this animal has a considerable degree of intelligence and can escape human pursuit and search.

2. A lot of indirect evidence shows that this animal is a more advanced primate than apes.

There are a lot of witnesses and encounters.

4. Most of the areas that have been reported as "savage" are rich in animal and plant resources and have mild climate, which is suitable for the survival and reproduction of higher primates. (except Himalayan snowman)

The "evidence" of the supporters is:

Hair (of human body and head)

By studying the residual hair found at the witness site, it is found that this kind of hair is obviously different from ordinary beasts, but it is also different from human hair.

footprint

Feet are similar to primates, very close to human feet, but much larger than human feet.

night soil

A lot of excrement suspected of being a "savage" is in a sharp spiral shape and stinks. The analysis of food residue shows that the animal has developed digestive function, feeding on weeds, leaves, bamboo branches, various fruits, small rodents, birds, insects and their eggs and pupae.

nesting

It is said that nests are mostly located in the leeward and sunny places, and the grass on the surface breaks in one direction, which is enormous.

Tooth marks

A farmer's cornfield was attacked by a "savage", and the traces of corn cob biting were neat and clean. opposition

Wu Xinzhi, a well-known paleoanthropologist and academician of China Academy of Sciences, believes that there is no scientific basis and no evidence to support the existence of savages.

"In fact, no one engaged in the study of savages in China is a real paleoanthropologist. At present, they have not published a scientific paper on savage research. " Wu Xinzhi told the author.

Wu Xinzhi pointed out that DNA detection technology has been adopted by many parties in China in recent years, and the media has reported many successful cases of using hair to detect DNA. It is hoped that people who have preserved the so-called savage hair will take out some DNA tests to determine which animal they belong to.

Popular science writers believe that domestic savages do not exist for the following reasons:

1, the witnesses of "savage" are basically people who have not been trained in animal observation and have no psychological preparation. When they see an unfamiliar animal, they panic or even panic, and may think of the "savage" widely circulated in the local area.

2. From the biological point of view, there is almost no possibility of "savage". In fact, it is impossible for higher animal species to reproduce only by a pair of males and females, or by several or even dozens. When a group is too small, the first problem is that it is difficult to keep the right ratio of men to women all the time. In the natural state, the probability that the next generation is female or male is equal, so a large group can maintain roughly the same proportion of men and women. However, in a small group, this balance is easily broken by probabilistic events. Inbreeding of small populations will inevitably lead to the decline of genetic quality and the disappearance of genetic diversity, which will lead to the extinction of the whole population. A group needs at least hundreds of individuals to avoid inbreeding and to reproduce healthily for a long time. But if there are hundreds of "savages" in a place, it won't be so hard to find.

3. "Savage" left no evidence of fossils and hair. Many fossils of apes, apes and ancient humans have been found, but none of them has anything to do with "savage". "Not a tooth was left." "Some' barbaric' hairs are identified as the hairs of other animals, not even hairs, but some kind of fungus or grass. Others don't know what kind of animal hair this is. "

And foreign savages, he also thinks it is unreliable: there is no fossil record of ape evolution in the United States and Australia, especially Australia, which did not even have higher mammals.

Hu Hongxing, a professor at Wuhan University, thinks that the savage in Shennongjia can't exist. He set up an ecological investigation team of Shennongjia of Wuhan University and the Yangtze River Basin, and made an investigation on Shennongjia for many years. "However, in the course of more than ten years of exploration, our scientific research team has never found the footprints and hair of the so-called savage in shennongjia national nature reserve, let alone seen the traces of the savage." "The so-called savage hair, which is consistent with the hair of ungulates after slicing and scanning, is actually the hair of a common ungulate in the local area. The so-called savage footprints are actually the slippery marks of normal people's footprints, because for the choice of footprints, it is scientifically required that they should not be on slopes, but must be flat. Now the footprints of savages are all obtained in places with a certain slope. It is simply because the road is slippery and people slip on it, and the big footprints are forged by some people as savage footprints. "

Professor Hu Hongxing also proved from animal ecology that savages don't exist at all. "Animal ecology tells us how to determine whether a species exists. The existence of a species is not a single existence, but exists in the form of a population. Without a population, a species loses its reproductive ability. "

For the existence of a population, the most important thing is its living space and food source. "There are no inaccessible places in the Little Shennongjia National Nature Reserve, and some people have gone to remote and steep places. No savages have been found so far, indicating that savages have no living space at all. "

Hu Hongxing said: So far, no living "savage" has been found, and even no bones have been found. It is basically concluded that there will be no such animals.

Feng Ruojian, a researcher at the Institute of Zoology who has participated in three scientific expeditions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that animals often move in the same area, and an ambush there will definitely be found. In three large-scale scientific investigations, it is precisely these most direct evidences that have not been confirmed: "Scientific discoveries must have scientific basis, and public physical evidence-several' savage' hairs have been identified as' fakes', and our conclusion can only be that Shennongjia has no' fakes'.

supporter

2065 438+03. 7. 24 Yuan, chairman of Xinjiang Ecological Society and researcher of Xinjiang Environmental Protection Research Institute, said that according to the available data, there are not only "savages" in the world, but also 200 to 500 savages in China, among which there are seven or eight kinds of savages in Altai Mountain, Altun Mountain and Kunlun Mountain in Xinjiang. Yuan has been paying attention to the study of savages for more than 40 years, and has visited Tomur Peak, Altai Mountain and Altun Mountain in Xinjiang five times successively in 1978, 1980, 1984, 1985 and 2005.

After collecting legends and eyewitness records about savages at home and abroad, he drew the China Savage Distribution Map and the World Savage Legend Point Distribution Map, and stated in the China Savage Distribution Map that domestic savages are generally distributed in Tibet, Himalayas, Altai Mountain, Kunlun Mountain, Altun Mountain and other places. "The largest savages in China are in Altun Mountain and Kunlun Mountain, and the smallest savages are in the deep mountains near Urumqi."

Although he admitted that he didn't find any convincing information about the savage, he thought, "If there were no savage, how could the story of the savage be passed down from generation to generation everywhere, and so many people described the savage in detail?"

Wang Shancai believes that fossils of archaeopteryx, hominids and apes are constantly unearthed in the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River valley in China, especially in Badong and Jianshi areas of Hubei Province, which proves that this area was once the home of large primates. He believes that savages, if they exist, may be unsuccessful animals between humans and apes in the process of evolution, and they are theoretically extinct. However, if giant pandas really exist today, it will be very helpful to understand how primates separated from apes, which proves that "in the process of human evolution, there is indeed an advanced primate, which is both an ape and a human, not an ape and a non-human".