This is not new discoveries as such, but the description of the paleontological research of the earliest known beginnings of humanity in South Africa. There are two articles related to the sites in South Africa. This is the first article:
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The orign of humanity in South Africa I
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One thing worthy of note here is this is one of the first paleontological projects where underwater investigations are part of the project, because rising sea levels have covered much of the habitat for the early successful homo sapiens that occupied this region, and likely populated the rest of the world.
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The second post goes into more detail into the effect of the Volcanic Tobu eruption 74,000 years ago the caused a decades long catastrophic winter based on research of the South African sites. The first culturally advanced humans known that lesd to populate the world. The genetic evidence also traces modern human origins to this region of Africa.
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