Hu Tianjie was taken aback: "So terrifying? ”

Deng Chenfei said: "Finally, when the orangutan was dying, the experimenter asked it in sign language: 'Do you think you are a human or an orangutan?' ’”

Hu Tianjie said: "What does it say? ”

Deng Chenfei said: "This orangutan answered in sign language, it is both a human and an orangutan. ”

Hu Tai said: "I have also known about this thing before, in fact, I have seen this orangutan. ”

Deng Chenfei said: "Since the wild man can already walk upright, it means that the wild man must be smarter than the orangutan. Orangutans can learn human sign language, so savages must be more cunning. ”

Hu Tianjie said: "Cunning? No matter how cunning you are, you can't be as cunning as a human being. ”

Deng Chenfei said: "That's not necessarily. If it is said that savages are indeed inferior to humans in terms of invention and creation. However, in the deep mountains and old forests, the wild man knows his surroundings well. Humans are in the light, but savages are in the shadows. So as long as the savages go to great lengths to hide, how easy is it for humans to find savages in the mountains? ”

Hu Tianjie said: "Even if a living savage can't be found, now even the corpse of a savage can't be found, how can this be explained?" ”

Deng Chenfei said: "Before answering this question, let me tell you about killer whales. ”

Hu Tianjie said: "What is the relationship between killer whales and savages? ”

Deng Chenfei said: "Killer whales are social animals. After studying it, experts found that the different communities of killer whales in the ocean communicate with each other in very complex ways, and even have 'dialects' similar to human language. Different killer whale tribes have even emerged with different cultural practices. ”

Hu Tianjie said: "You mean...... Killer whales with no hands and feet have their own questions, so ...... savages"

Deng Chenfei said: "Savages are only more complex than killer whales, wolves, and other social animals, and of course they are not as simple as humans imagine. In other words, the reason why savages do not see people dead or dead is because savages are very cunning and very familiar with their environment. Moreover, even dead savages are carefully buried.

"Moreover, in nature, once an animal dies, scavengers, insects, and other factors add up and decompose very quickly. Even if it is not buried by its own kind, it is very difficult to find the corpse of a wild man, and the life of a wild man, whether life or death, will only appear in the deep mountains and old forests that are deserted. ”

Hu Tai said: "You said before that there are other possibilities for wild people besides the possibility of giant apes, so what is it? ”

Deng Chenfei said: "In fact, there is not only one way of evolution in the evolution of organisms, but also degradation.

"There is such a record in the ancient books of the Han Dynasty: at that time, there were nobles hunting in the mountains, and in the process of hunting, they not only captured a lot of rare birds and beasts, but also captured a woman with long hair, called 'Mao Girl'.

"Later, after interrogation, this hairy girl actually spoke, but because of the long-term lack of communication with people, the stuttering was already very unclear, but I still learned that this 'hairy girl' was the palace maid of the Qin Dynasty during the Qin and Han dynasties, and she fled to this deep mountain alone because of the war, and lived for more than a hundred years by eating mulberry leaves, but she was covered with long hair because she was not clothed for a long time.

"This 'hairy girl' is an atavistic phenomenon caused by accidents. From this incident, we can know that if human beings are placed in a specific environment, it only takes one generation to have atavistic phenomena such as long hair. It is conceivable that if there is more than one 'hairy girl' who escaped in the deep mountains, a group of people who are mixed with men and women, after several generations of reproduction, the offspring must be very different from normal humans. ”

Hu Tai thought for a moment and said: "You mean, in addition to the explanation of the giant ape, it is possible that the wild man is an atavistic phenomenon that has escaped to the unknown deep mountains and old forests and has been degraded for several generations?" ”

Deng Chenfei said: "Yes, this can also explain that the wild man phenomenon is a strange phenomenon that occurs all over the world. Because as long as there are people, there is a possibility of individual outliers. ”

Hu Tai said: "If it is said that the atavistic phenomenon of long hair on the body occurs after a long period of lack of clothing, it can also be explained. However, this view does not explain the problem of the tall size of the wild man, after all, in the United States, the most interesting feature of the wild man is its large feet. ”

Deng Chenfei said with a smile: "So there are still many loopholes in this statement that human rewilding leads to atavism, and I personally prefer the statement that wild people are giant apes." ”

Hu Tianjie said: "Maybe the wild man, that is, the giant ape you are talking about, or the rewilded atavistic humans, have existed. But now the environment in the wild is getting less and less, and there are still so many South China tigers, and now they are still extinct in the wild? So even if the wild man once existed, it should be extinct now. ”

Deng Chenfei said: "I said before that the wild man is different from other animals, it is more intelligent than any known animal......

At this time, the waiter of the hotel came and reminded the three of them that it was not too early and hoped to settle the bill as soon as possible.

Hu Tai looked at his watch and found that it was already past ten o'clock in the evening, so he smiled and said, "Okay, the time is indeed not early, we will have time to discuss it later." However, you kid knows a lot about savages, and I really don't look like a human being, and I can be regarded as benefiting a lot from tonight. ”

Deng Chenfei said: "Where is it, it's just that I talked nonsense, which made the professor laugh." ”

That night, Deng Chenfei and Hu Tai each left their contact information. Early the next morning, Hu Tai couldn't wait to make an appointment with Deng Chenfei, saying that he was in a hurry.