Mongle Lab

Our research aims to reconstruct the major trends and transitions that characterize hominin diversity and evolution

We are at Stony Brook University in the Department of Anthropology.

Principal Investigator

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Turkana Basin Institute at Stony Brook University. My research aims to reconstruct the major trends and transitions that characterize hominin diversity and evolution. Ongoing work towards that goal involves (1) the discovery and description of new hominin fossils from the Turkana Basin in Kenya; (2) quantification of morphological variation; and (3) comprehensive phylogenetic analyses founded on the careful character assessment of both craniodental and postcranial characters.

I am also currently serving as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Human Evolution

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We incorporate comparative anatomy, high resolution computed tomography scanning, 3D geometric morphometrics, and a variety of statistical modeling approaches. In addition, we use phylogenetic comparative methods to evaluate the relationship between variation, evolvability, and macroevolution in the primate dentition.

Our lab is affiliated with the Turkana Basin Institute. We work in collaboration with Louise Leakey and the Koobi Fora Research Project to discover and describe new hominin fossil material from the deposits of northern Kenya.

Our work is supported by