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 ...

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 ...

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 ...