吴汝康人类学实践中的人观思想及其来源

吴汝康人类学学术实践中的人现思想体现在三个层面:在人类进化中区分出生物人与社会人、人类体质发展的不平衡性或镶嵌性、劳动在人体构造形成过程中的作用.其中,从猿到人转变的关键机制在于劳动.这三个层面总起来说有三个知识来源:一、以往人类学的探索与认识,二、中国化石及吴氏的学术实践,三、恩格斯等人思想启发.三者彼此阐发,相互印证,催生了吴汝康的人观思想.比较起同时代的学者而言,其人观思想更多地体现出人类学学科专业的理解.

Woo Rukang's View of Humans and its Origin in the Study of Anthropology

The view of humans practiced by Wu Rukang in the anthropological study, contains three aspects: the concepts of Social man and Biological man, the unbalanced or mosaic development of human morphology, the transformation of body structure from ape to man made by labour. This thought of him was derived from three origins, namely, the scientific practice of Wu Rukang on the studies on Peking Man and Gigantopithecus, the theories involving the concept of prehomininae and euhominae, as well as the thinking inspi...