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Homo sapiens Were Living in African Wet Tropical Forests as Early as 150,000 Years Ago


New research led by Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology scientists challenges conventional ideas about the habitability of ancient tropical forests and suggests that West Africa may have been an important center for the evolution of our species, Homo sapiens.

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