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Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago - Nature

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By Eslem Ben Arous, James Blinkhorn, Sarah Elliott, Christopher A. Kiahtipes, Mark Bateman, Mathieu Duval, Patrick Roberts, Robert Patalano, Emily Y. Hallett, Alexander F. Blackwood, Jacopo N. Cerasoni
| Nature Verified
Abstract Humans emerged across Africa shortly before 300 thousand years ago (ka)1,2,3. Although this pan-African evolutionary process implicates diverse environments in the human story, the role of tropical forests remains poorly understood. Here we report a clear association between late Middle Pleistocene material culture and a wet tropical forest in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest.
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Arid, mosaic environments during the Plio-Pleistocene transition and early hominin dispersals in northern Africa - Nature Communications

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By Robert Patalano, Steffen Mischke, Pedro Piñero, Hugues-Alexandre Blain, Patrick Roberts, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, M. Chacón, Iván Ramírez-Pedraza, Elena Moreno-Ribas
| Nature Verified
Abstract The earliest archaeological evidence from northern Africa dates to ca. 2.44 Ma. Nevertheless, the palaeoenvironmental setting of hominins living in this part of the continent at the Plio-Pleistocene transition remains poorly documented, particularly in comparison to eastern and southern Africa. The Guefaït-4 fossil site in eastern Morocco sheds light on our knowledge of palaeoenvironments in northern Africa.
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Studying lake deposits in Idaho could give scientists insight into ancient traces of life on Mars

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By Robert Patalano
| MetaStellar
Reading Time: 4 minutes Does life exist elsewhere in the universe? If so, how do scientists search for and identify it? Finding life beyond Earth is extremely difficult, partly because other planets are so far away and partly because we are not sure what to look for. Yet, astrobiologists have learned a lot about how to find life in extraterrestrial environments, mainly by studying how and when the early Earth became livable.
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