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ArticleNature2025

Humans in Africa's wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago.

Eslem Ben Arous, James A Blinkhorn, Sarah Elliott, Christopher A Kiahtipes, Charles D N'zi, Mark D Bateman, Mathieu Duval, Patrick Roberts, Robert Patalano, Alexander F Blackwood and 10 more

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Eslem Ben ArousCentro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain. ben-arous@gea.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0003-2489-825X
James A BlinkhornHuman Palaeosystems Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA), Jena, Germany. j.blinkhorn@liverpool.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-9399-5515
Sarah ElliottDepartment of Life and Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3926-0366
Christopher A KiahtipesUniversity of South Florida Libraries, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8758-4605
Charles D N'ziDépartmente d'Histoire, Institut d'Histoire, d'Art et d'Archéologie Africains (IHAAA), Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Mark D BatemanSchool of Geography and Planning, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1756-6046
Mathieu DuvalCentro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3181-7753
Patrick RobertsisoTROPIC Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA), Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4403-7548
Robert PatalanoisoTROPIC Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA), Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9075-4556
Alexander F BlackwoodHuman Palaeosystems Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA), Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6021-6191
Khady NiangHuman Palaeosystems Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA), Jena, Germany.
Eugénie Affoua KouaméInstitut des Sciences Anthropologiques de Développement (ISAD), Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Edith LebatoDépartmente d'Histoire, Institut d'Histoire, d'Art et d'Archéologie Africains (IHAAA), Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Emily HallettDepartment of Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3074-7274
Jacopo N CerasoniDepartment of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5546-1555
Erin ScottisoTROPIC Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA), Jena, Germany.
Jana IlgnerisoTROPIC Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA), Jena, Germany.
Maria Jesús Alonso EscarzaCentro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain.
Francois Yodé GuédéDépartmente d'Histoire, Institut d'Histoire, d'Art et d'Archéologie Africains (IHAAA), Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Eleanor M L ScerriHuman Palaeosystems Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA), Jena, Germany. scerri@gea.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-7468-9977

Funding

Marie Skłodowska-Curie
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans emerged across Africa shortly before 300 thousand years ago (ka)

Indexed as

ForestsRainforestTropical ClimateWetlandsAncient LandsCote d'IvoireFossilsGeologic SedimentsHumansPollen

Identifiers

PMID40011767
PMCPMC11981921

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