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Humans lived in African rainforests 150,000 years ago, far earlier than believed – new research

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par Eslem Ben Arous, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH)
Eleanor Scerri, Independent Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

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 grasslands and savannahs were the ecological “cradle” of human beings. Environments like rainforest were considered to be barriers…

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