Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
MacLatchy,L., Cote,S., Deino, A., Kityo, R., Mugume, A., Rossie, J., Sanders, W., Cosman, M., Driese, S., Fox9, D., Freeman, A., Jansma, R., Jenkins, K., Kinyanjui, R., Lukens, W., McNulty, K., Novello, A., Peppe, D., Strömberg C., Uno, K., Winkler, A., Kingston, J. 2023. The evolution of hominoid locomotor versatility: Evidence from Moroto, a 21 Ma site in Uganda. Science, 380(6641), p.eabq2835. DOI: 10.1126/science.abq28
Peppe, D., Cote,S., Deino, A., Fox,D., Kingston, J., Kinyanjui, R., Lukens, MacLatchy,L., K., Novello, A., Peppe, D., Strömberg C., Driese, S., Garrett, N., Hills, K., Jacobs, B., Jenkins, K., Kityo, R., Lehmann T., Manthi, F., Mbua6, E., Michele, L., Miller, E., Mugume, A., Amon, Muteti, S., Nengo, I.O., Oginga, K., Phelps,S., PrPolissar, P., Rossie, J., Stevens,N., Uno, K., McNulty, K. 2023. Oldest evidence of abundant C4 grasses and habitat heterogeneity in eastern Africa. Science, 380(6641), 173-177. DOI: 10.1126/science.abq28
MacLatchy L., Orlikoff E., Cosman M.N. 2022. Hominoidea Morphology. In: Vonk J., Shackelford T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_2001-1.
Arney, I., Benefit, B.R., McCrossin, M.L., MacLatchy, L. and Kingston, J.D. 2022. Herbivore isotopic dietary ecology of the middle Miocene Maboko Formation, Kenya. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 601, p.111061 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111061.
Sarringhaus, L.A., Mitani, J.C., MacLatchy, L.M. 2022. The ontogeny of knuckle-walking and dorsal metacarpal ridge prominence in chimpanzees. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 178 (1): 29-43. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24477.
Malone, M.A., MacLatchy, L.M., Mitani, J.C., Kityo, R. and Kingston, J.D. 2021 A chimpanzee enamel-diet δ13C enrichment factor and a refined enamel sampling strategy: Implications for dietary reconstructions. Journal of Human Evolution 159: 103062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103062.
Parins-Fukuchi, C., Greiner, E., MacLatchy, L., Fisher, D. 2019. Phylogeny, ancestors, and anagenesis in the hominin fossil record. Paleobiology 45 (2): 378-393. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2019.12
MacLatchy, L., Rossie, J., Houssaye, A., Olejniczak, A., Smith, T. 2019. New hominoid remains from the early Miocene site Moroto II. Journal of Human Evolution 132: 227-246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.03.008.
Wuthrich, C., MacLatchy, L. and Nengo, I. 2019. Wrist morphology reveals substantial locomotor diversity among early catarrhines: an analysis of capitates from the early Miocene of Tinderet (Kenya). Nature Scientific Reports 9: 3728. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39800-3.
Cote, S., Kingston, J., Deino, A. and MacLatchy, L. 2018. Evidence for rapid faunal change in the early Miocene of East Africa based on revised biostratigraphic and radiometric dating of Bukwa, Uganda. Journal of Human Evolution 116: 95-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.12.001.
Murray, A., Cote, S., and MacLatchy, L. 2017. The fishes of Bukwa, Uganda, a key early Miocene (Burdigalian) locality of East Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI:10.1080/02724634.2017.1324460; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2017.1324460.
Sarringhaus LA, MacLatchy LM, Mitani, JC. 2016. Long Bone Cross-Sectional Properties Reflect Changes in Locomotor Behavior in Developing Chimpanzees. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22930.
MacLatchy, L., Sanders, W. and Wuthrich, C. 2015. Hominoid Origins. Nature Education Knowledge Project. http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/hominoid-origins- 135874580.
Sarringhaus LA, MacLatchy LM, Mitani, JC. 2014. Locomotor and postural development of wild chimpanzees. Journal of Human Evolution. 66: 29–38.
RJ Fajardo, JM DeSilva, RK Manoharan, JE Schmitz, LM MacLatchy, ML Bouxsein. 2013. Lumbar Vertebral Body Bone Microstructural Scaling in Small to Medium-Sized Strepsirhines. Anatomical Record 296 (2): 210-226.
Rossie, J. & MacLatchy, L. 2013. Dentognathic remains of an Afropithecus individual from Kalodirr, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 65: 199-208.
MacLatchy, L., DeSilva, J., Sanders, W. and Wood, B. 2010. The Hominins. In: Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. Eds. L. Werdelin and W.J. Sanders. University of California Press, Berkeley. Pp. 471-540.
Zalmout, I.S., Sanders, W.J., MacLatchy, L.M., Gunnell, G.F., Al-Mufarreh, Y.A., Ali, M.A., Nasser, A.H., Al-Masary, A.M., Al-Sobhi S.A., Nadra, A.O., Matari, A.H., Wilson, J.A., Gingerich, P.D. 2010. New Oligocene Primate from Saudi Arabia and Divergence of Apes and Old World Monkeys. Nature 466 (7304): 360-364.
Orliac M.J., Boisserie J.-R., MacLatchy L. & Lihoreau F. 2010. Early Miocene hippopotamid (Cetartiodactyla) constrain the phylogenetic and spatiotemporal settings of hippopotamid origin. PNAS 107(26): 11871-11876.
Fajardo, R.J., Cory, E., Patel, N.D., Nazarian, A., Laib, A., Manoharan, R.K., Schmitz, J.E., De Silva, J.M., MacLatchy, L.M., Snyder, B.D., Bouxsein, M.L. 2009. Specimen size and porosity can introduce error into microCT-based tissue mineral density measurements. Bone 44: 176-184.
Rossie, J. & MacLatchy, L. 2006. A new pliopithecoid genus from the early Miocene of Uganda. Journal of Human Evolution 50 (5): 568-586.
MacLatchy, L. and Rossie, J. 2005. The Napak hominoid: Still Proconsul major. In: Interpreting the Past: Essays on Human, Primate and Mammal Evolution in Honor of David Pilbeam. Eds. D. E. Lieberman, R. J. Smith, and J. Kelley, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, Pp. 33-46.
MacLatchy, L.M. 2004. The Oldest Ape. Evolutionary Anthropology 13(3): 90-103.
Young, N. & MacLatchy, L.M. 2004. The phylogenetic position of Morotopithecus. Journal of Human Evolution 46: 163-184.
MacLatchy, L. M. and Müller, R. 2002. A comparison of the femoral head and neck trabecular architecture of Galago and Perodicticus using micro-computed tomography. Journal of Human Evolution 43: 89-10.
MacLatchy, L., Gebo, D., Kityo, R. and Pilbeam, D. 2000. Postcranial functional morphology of Morotopithecus bishopi, with implications for the evolution of modern ape locomotion. Journal of Human Evolution 39: 159-183.
Brunet, M., Beauvilain, A., Geraads, D., Guy, F., Kasser, M., Mackaye, I., MacLatchy, L., Mouchelin, G., Sudre, J. and Vignaud, P. 1998. Chad: Discovery of a mammal fauna in the Early Pliocene. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 326: 153-158.
Gebo, D., MacLatchy, L., Kityo, R. Kingston, J., Deino, A. and Pilbeam, D. 1997. A hominoid genus from the Miocene of Uganda. Science 276: 401-404.
