A recent article in Nature by lead author CĂ©line M. Vidal and others reports on new, earlier dates for some of the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils. Inverse magazine's article on the news featured UMMAA curator Brian Stewart's thoughts on the signifcance of this discovery. Read the Nature article here, and the Inverse article here.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04275-8
https://www.inverse.com/science/ancient-man-timeline