Publications

• Greening, V. A., Hernandez, E., Mongle, C. S., Billings, B. K., Mngomezulu, V., Wallace, I. J., & Grine, F. E. (2024). Variation, sexual dimorphism and enlargement of the frontal sinus with age in adult South Africans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 183, e24899. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24899

• Present, T. M., Niespolo, E. M., Clarke, C. E., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Leakey, L. N., Leakey, M. G., Mongle, C. S., du Plessis, A., Northrup, P., Tappero, R. V., Rasbury, E. T., & Grine, F. E. (2024). Nondestructive geochemical characterization of hominin fossil taphonomy and burial history. Quarternary Science Reviews, 328, 108525. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108525

• Grine, F. E., Greening, V. A., Hernandez, E., Billings, B. K., Mngomezulu, V., & Mongle, C. S. (2023). Metopism in adult South Africans and its relationship to frontal sinus size. The Anatomical Record, 1-18. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25350

• Grine, F. E., Mongle, C. S., Kollmer, W., Romanos, G., du Plessis, A., Maureille, B., & Braga, J. (2023). Hypercementosis in Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens fossils from Klasies River Main Site, South Africa. Archives of Oral Biology, 149, 105664. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archoralbio.2023.105664

• Machado, F. A., Mongle, C. S., Slater, G. J., Penna, A., Wisniewski, A. L., Soffin, A., Dutra, V., & Uyeda, J. C. (2023). Rules of teeth development align microevolution with macroevolution in extant and extinct primates. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7, 1729–1739. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02167-w

• Mongle, C. S., Strait, D. S., & Grine, F. E. (2023). An updated analysis of hominin phylogeny with an emphasis on re-evaluating the phylogenetic relationships of Australopithecus sediba. Journal of Human Evolution, 175, 103311. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103311

• Post, N. W., Gilbert, C. C., Pugh, K. D., & Mongle, C. S. (2023). Implications of outgroup selection in the phylogenetic inference of hominoids and fossil hominins. Journal of Human Evolution, 184, 103437.

• Ward, C., Hammond, A. S., Grine, F. E., Mongle, C. S., Lawrence, J., & Kimbel, W. H. (2023). Taxonomic status of the KNM-ER 1500 partial skeleton from the Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution, 184, 103426. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103426

• Grine, F. E., Mongle, C. S., Fleagle, J. G., & Hammond, A. S. (2022). The taxonomic attribution of early African hominin postcrania: associations and assumptions. Journal of Human Evolution, 173, 103255. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103255

• Mongle, C. S., Nesbitt, A., Machado, F. A., Smaers, J. B., Turner, A. L., Grine, F. E., & Uyeda, J. C. (2022). Developmental processes mediate alignment of the micro- and macroevolution of primate molars. Evolution, 76, 2975-2985. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14600

• Mongle, C. S., Pugh, K. D., Strait, D. S., & Grine, F. E. (2022). Modeling hominin evolution requires accurate hominin data. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6, 1090-1091. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01791-2s

• Borries, C., Smaers, J. B., Mongle, C. S., & Koenig, A. (2021). The effect of data provenance on estimates of gestation length in African and Asian colobines. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 176, 606-613.

• Martin, J. M., Leece, A. B., Neubauer, S., Baker, S. E., Mongle, C. S., Boschian, G., Schwartz, G. T., Smith, A. L., Ledogar, J. A., Strait, D. S., & Herries, A. I. R. (2021). Drimolen cranium DNH 155 documents microevolution in an early hominin species. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5, 38-45. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-01319-6

• Smaers, J. B., Rothman, R. S., Hudson, D. R., Balanoff, A. M., Beatty, B., Dechmann, D. K. N., De Vries, D., Dunn, J. C., Fleagle, J. G., Gilbert, C. C., Goswami, A., Iwaniuk, A. N., Jungers, W. L., Kerney, M., Ksepka, D. T., Manger, P. R., Mongle, C. S., Rohlf, F. J., Smith, N. A., Soligo, C., Weisbecker, V., & Safi, K. (2021). The evolution of mammalian brain size. Science Advances, 7(18), eabe2101. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abe2101

• Grine, F. E., Lee, C., Mongle, C. S., Billings, B. K., Wallace, I. J., & Mngomezulu, V. (2020). Secular Trends in Cranial Size and Shape among Black South Africans over the late 19th and 20th Centuries. Annals of Human Biology, 1-28. doi:10.1080/03014460.2020.1783361

• Grine, F. E., Mongle, C. S., Smith, S. L., Black, W., Du Plessis, A., & Braga, J. (2020). Human manual distal phalanges from the Middle Stone Age deposits of Klasies River Main Site, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 146, 102849. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102849

• Ksepka, D. T., Balanoff, A. M., Smith, N. A., Bever, G. S., Bhullar, B.-A. S., Bourdon, E., Braun, E. L., Burleigh, J. G., Clarke, J. A., Colbert, M. W., Corfield, J. R., Degrange, F. J., De Pietri, V. L., Early, C. M., Field, D. J., Gignac, P. M., Gold, M. E. L., Kimball, R. T., Kawabe, S., Lefebvre, L., Marugán-Lobón, J., Mongle, C. S., Morhardt, A., Norell, M. A., Ridgely, R. C., Rothman, R. S., Scofield, R. P., Tambussi, C. P., Torres, C. R., Van Tuinen, M., Walsh, S. A., Watanabe, A., Witmer, L. M., Wright, A. K., Zanno, L. E., Jarvis, E. D., & Smaers, J. B. (2020). Tempo and pattern of avian brain size evolution. Current Biology, 30(11), 2026-2036 e2023. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.060

• Mongle, C. S., Koenig, A., Samonds, K. E., Smaers, J. B., & Borries, C. (2020). Costly teeth? Gestation length in primates suggests that neonate dentition is not expensive to produce. The Anatomical Record, 303(9), 2476-2484. doi:10.1002/ar.24411

• Grine, F. E., Leakey, M. G., Gathago, P. N., Brown, F. H., Mongle, C. S., Yang, D., Jungers, W. L., & Leakey, L. N. (2019). Complete permanent mandibular dentition of early Homo from the upper Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Ileret, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution, 131, 152-175. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.03.017

• Mongle, C. S., Strait, D. S., & Grine, F. E. (2019). Expanded character sampling underscores phylogenetic stability of Ardipithecus ramidus as a basal hominin. Journal of Human Evolution, 131, 28-39. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.03.006

• Smaers, J. B., Mongle, C. S., Safi, K., & Dechmann, D. K. N. (2019). Allometry, evolution and development of neocortex size in mammals. Progress in Brain Research, 250, 83-107. doi:10.1016/bs.pbr.2019.05.002

• Fernández, P. J., Mongle, C. S., Leakey, L., Proctor, D. J., Orr, C. M., Patel, B. A., Almécija, S., Tocheri, M. W., & Jungers, W. L. (2018). Evolution and function of the hominin forefoot. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 131(35), 201800818-201808751. doi:10.1073/pnas.1800818115

• Márquez, S., Pagano, A. S., Mongle, C. S., Albertine, K. H., & Laitman, J. T. (2018). The Nasal Complex of a Semiaquatic Artiodactyl, the Moose (Alces alces): Is it a Good Evolutionary Model for the Ancestors of Cetaceans? The Anatomical Record, 103(7), 58. doi:10.1002/ar.24022

• Grine, F. E., Marean, C. W., Faith, J. T., Black, W., Mongle, C. S., Trinkaus, E., le Roux, S. G., & du Plessis, A. (2017). Further human fossils from the Middle Stone Age deposits of Die Kelders Cave 1, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 109, 70-78. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.05.009

• Smaers, J. B., & Mongle, C. S. (2017). On the accuracy and theoretical underpinnings of the multiple variance Brownian motion approach for estimating variable rates and inferring ancestral states. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 121(1), 229-238. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blx003

• Smaers, J. B., Mongle, C. S., & Kandler, A. (2016). A multiple variance Brownian motion framework for estimating variable rates and inferring ancestral states. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 118(1), 78-94. doi:10.1111/bij.12765

• Mongle, C. S., Wallace, I. J., & Grine, F. E. (2015). Cross-sectional structural variation relative to midshaft along hominine diaphyses. I. The forelimb. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 158(3), 386-397. doi:10.1002/ajpa.22799

• Mongle, C. S., Wallace, I. J., & Grine, F. E. (2015). Cross-sectional structural variation relative to midshaft along hominine diaphyses. II. The hind limb. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 158(3), 398-407. doi:10.1002/ajpa.22802

• Wallace, I. J., Demes, B., Mongle, C. S., Pearson, O. M., Polk, J. D., & Lieberman, D. E. (2014). Exercise-induced bone formation is poorly linked to local strain magnitude in the sheep tibia. PLOS ONE, 9(6), e99108. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099108

• Wallace, I. J., Nesbitt, A., Mongle, C. S., Gould, E. S., & Grine, F. E. (2014). Age-related variation in limb bone diaphyseal structure among Inuit foragers from Point Hope, northern Alaska. Archives of Osteoporosis, 9(1), 202. doi:10.1007/s11657-014-0202-3