Every one of us climbed trees as a kid. Kids climb trees.
Studying the feet of an australopithecus toddler we learned that their kids climbed trees even more - that while the adults walked on the ground, the toddlers liked to go high. This was probably a defense mechanism - kids old enough not to be carried by mom all the time, but too young to move quickly on the ground, were probably safer arboreal.
Which proves my personal theory that "wild" human kids would go up if threatened. We might not hang onto tree climbing feet for the first few years any more, but we still have the instinct.
Hence, well, treehouses.
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