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SWSCforest – by Stephen Beech ONLINE EMBARGO 16.00 GMT, 26/02/25 Humans were living in tropical rainforests tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, according to new research. The earliest evidence of humans living in such forests in Africa, around 150,000 years ago, has been discovered. The study, published in the journal Nature, dates humans living in rainforests 80,000 years earlier than found in other sites around the world. Humans were not believed to have lived in rainforests until relatively recently due to them being thought of as natural barriers to human habitation. But the new study, by an…