Archive: https://archive.today/HMZhI From the post: >>Humans were thought to have not lived in rainforests until relatively recently due to them being thought of as natural barriers to human habitation. However the new study - published by an international team led by the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, with contributions from the University of Sheffield - found that humans were living in rainforests within the present-day Côte d'Ivoire around 150,000 years ago. The study puts the evidence for humans living in rainforests anywhere in the world, back by 80,000 years, and argues that human evolution happened across a variety of regions and habitats.