3/7 The new model also implicates different ecosystems. Did humans really only inhabit open environments, with rainforests as barriers until recent history? Our showed humans inhabted rainforests 150,000 years in West Africa - more than double the previous known age.
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The identification of tools dated to the time of Homo sapiens associated with microfloral evidence of wet tropical forests indicates that West African forests were occupied by humans much earlier...