Scientists find earliest evidence that our ancestors lived in rainforests 150,000 years ago

The earliest evidence of humans living in tropical rainforests in Africa, around 150,000 years ago, has been published in a new study in Nature by researchers at the University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ.

A close up of the remains of a stone tool which humans used 150,000 years ago
  • A new study published in Nature provides the earliest evidence that our human ancestors lived in the tropical rainforests of Africa
  • The study involving University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ researchers dates humans living in rainforests back to 150,000 years ago, 80,000 years earlier than found in other rainforests sites around the world
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