The Be虂te虂 I archaeological site in Ivory Coast was overgrown when researchers visited in 2020 Jimbob Blinkhorn, MPG
Humans were living in a tropical rainforest in West Africa 150,000 years ago. The finding pushes human habitation of tropical forests much further back in time, suggesting our ancestors were able to live in a wide variety of terrains.
It has generally been thought that humans evolved in open grasslands and savannahs, says at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany. Instead, she says, our ancestors were highly adaptable. 鈥淓cological diversity is at the heart…
