Published on: 2025-07-15 02:00:44
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 70,000 years old. Surprising new research suggests that the timeline extends more than 80,000 years further into the past. After reinvestigating a site in modern-day Côte d’Ivoire, an international team of researchers claims that humans (Homo sapiens) began living in rainforests as early as 150,000 y
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