Laura M. MacLatchy

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Infant chimpanzees are out of mom’s reach the majority of the time they descend from the trees. Kevin Lee/Ngogo Chimpanzee Project and Arizona State University

Risks young chimps take as they swing through the trees underscore role of protective parenting in humans

Laura M. MacLatchy, University of Michigan and Lauren Sarringhaus, James Madison University

The youngest chimpanzees are the biggest risk-takers. Would humans show the same pattern if adults weren’t keeping such a close watch on little kids?
An ape that lived 21 million years ago was used to a habitat that was both grassy and wooded. Corbin Rainbolt

Wooded grasslands flourished in Africa 21 million years ago – new research forces a rethink of ape evolution

Laura M. MacLatchy, University of Michigan; Dan Peppe, Baylor University, and Kieran McNulty, University of Minnesota

Contrary to the idea that apes evolved their upright posture to reach for fruit in the forest canopy, the earliest known ape with this stature, Morotopithecus, lived in more open grassy environments.

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