Editorial Why South Africa may be the birthplace of humanity

A new study on the southern part of Cediba shows that the northwestern part of Johannesburg is the most promising place to uncover the earliest human beings.

As you can imagine, the history of Africa is very complex. Africa as the birthplace of mankind is the oldest place where humans live on earth and has seen society of various forms and kinds during the past 200,000 years. There is no single culture in Africa, but there are incredibly diverse civilizations. There are various societies in ancient Africa, but they can be roughly divided into four categories. The first is hunting - gathering society. These nomad groups rely on natural resources available to keep reaching out to food. Even after agriculture has developed, many of Africa's regions, especially deserts and jungles are not suitable for agriculture, so many groups still choose to continue hunting. Hunting - collecting society tends to be very equal. In other words, all members, such as men, women, elderly people, are treated equally.

You may have heard that Africa is "a house of mankind". But before the human beings, apes and even the ancestors of celestials, there was a rock. Africa is the oldest and most permanent land in the world. 97% of the foot existed over 300 million years ago when you are standing in Africa. Meanwhile, Africa has seen almost everything from primitive bacteria to dinosaurs, and finally 50 to 10 million years ago, special apes called Australopithecines are diverging (or giving up) Branch) and walked two legs along an independent evolutionary trajectory