Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of natural environment we evolved in. Until recently, the dominant idea was that ...

Stone tools suggest humans lived in a tropical rainforest in present-day Ivory Coast roughly 150,000 years ago. Jimbob Blinkhorn, MPG Scientists have found that early humans lived in tropical ...

Scientists have long believed that hundreds of thousands of years ago, humans first learned to thrive in East African grasslands before spreading out and adapting to new environments. But a new study ...

Modern humans evolved around 300,000 years ago, but only began inhabiting rainforests much later. In fact, the earliest archaeological evidence of humans living in rainforest habitats is only about 70 ...

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 18,000 ...

Ancient humans lived in tropical rainforests much earlier than we first thought, a new study finds. Before now, the earliest evidence of humans (Homo sapiens) living in rainforest environments dated ...