For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Rainforests may have been an important center for early human evolution, challenging the idea that early humans avoided ...

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

New research suggests that humans inhabited the rainforests of West Africa roughly 150,000 years ago, providing new insights ...

New evidence reveals early humans lived in African rainforests 150,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of human ...

A new study published in the journal Nature reveals that humans were living in African rainforests at least 150,000 years ago, earlier than previously believed. The discovery pushes back the known ...

Early humans adapted to rainforest conditions far earlier than previously thought, archaeologists have discovered.

"Before our study, the oldest secure evidence for habitation in African rainforests was around 18 thousand years ago, and the oldest evidence of rainforest habitation anywhere came from southeast ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests at least 150 thousand years ago in Africa, the home of our species. Our species originated in Africa around 300 thousand years ago ...

A study published Wednesday shows that as early as 150,000 years ago, some of them lived deep in a West African rainforest. “What we’re seeing is that, from a very early stage, ecological ...