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

Primitive Humans Resided in African Rainforests Much Before the Known Period, Researchers Find Tools to Confirm The evolution ...

Learn how a West African excavation shows that early humans lived in multiple ecosystems simultaneously, challenging our ...

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

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

But a new study published this week found some of our ancestors managed to survive in a tropical rainforest in West Africa much earlier than was known. A team of researchers found evidence that ...

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

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 ...

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

If this Africa-wide theory were true, then early humans must have figured out how to live in many environments beyond ...

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

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 ...