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

A team of botanists with members from Muse–Museo delle Scienze, Udzungwa Corridor LTD, Via Grazia Deledda and the National ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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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 ...

Eslem Ben Arous, researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, said: "Before our study, the oldest secure evidence for habitation in African rainforests was around 18 thousand years ...

However, evidence collected from Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa provides a different story. Tools collected from the site showcased that humans were living in the rainforests of the region for ...

(Credit: Jimbob Blinkhorn, MPG) In the late ‘80s, a team of Soviet and West African archaeologists discovered an African rainforest site that had the potential to rewrite at least a chapter of human ...