West African rainforests today. Dense woods resulted in low levels of grass pollen at the ancient site, the researchers report. Ancient rainforest pioneers served as ancestors of later Stone Age ...

Humans were living in rainforests ... of the ancient human occupation—the region was heavily wooded, with the samples consistent with the types of vegetation found in humid West African rainforests.

But one of our crews started the story about as far away from civilization as you can get! Deep inside Africa’s Congo ... The line that led from the rainforest ape to where we are today The ...

our ancient ancestors lived." Eslem Ben Arous, researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, said: "Before our study, the oldest secure evidence for habitation in African rainforests ...