Publications

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103311

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, 1729–1739. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02167-w

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. J. Hum. Evol. 184, 103437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103437

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. J. Hum. Evol. 184, 103426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103426

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archoralbio.2023.105664

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. 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. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01791-2s

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103255

Borries C., Smears J.B., Mongle C.S., Koenig A., 2021. The effect of data provenance on gestation length in African and Asian colobines. American Journal of Physical Anthropology

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, eabe2101.

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., 2020. Drimolen cranium DNH 155 documents microevolution in an early hominin species. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01319-6

Mongle CS, Koenig A, Samonds KE, Smaers JB, Borries C. 2020. Costly teeth: gestation length in primates suggests that dentition is not expensive to produce. Anat Rec. 303:2476-2484. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24411

Grine FE, Mongle CS, Smith SL, 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. J Hum Evol. 146: 102849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102849

Grine FE, Lee C, Mongle CS, Wallace IJ, Mngomezulu V. 2020. Secular Trends in Cranial Size and Shape among Black South Africans over the late 19th and 20th Centuries. Ann. Hum. Biol. 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2020.1783361

Ksepka DT, Balanoff AM, Smith NA, Bever GS, Bhullar BS, Bourdon E, Braun EL, Burleigh JG, Clarke JA, Colbert MW, Corfield JR, Degrange FJ, De Pietri VL, Early CM, Field DJ, Gignac PM, Gold MEL, Jarvis ED, Kimball RT, Kawabe S, Lefebvre L, Marugán-Lobón J, Mongle CS, Morhardt A, Norell MA, Ridgely RC, Scofield RP, Tambussi CP, Torres CR, van Tuinen M, Walsh SA, Watanabe A, Witmer LM, Wright AK, Zanno LE, Smaers JB. 2020. Tempo and pattern of avian brain size evolution. Current Biology. 30: P2026-2036.E3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.060

Mongle CS, Strait DS, Grine FE. 2019 Expanded character sampling underscores phylogenetic stability of Ardipithecus ramidus as a basal hominin. J Hum Evol. 131:28-39.

Smaers JB, Mongle CS, Safi K., Dechmann, DK. 2019. Allometry, evolution and development of neocortex size in mammals. Progress in Brain Research. 1–25.

Grine FE, Leakey MG, Gathago PN, Brown FH, Mongle CS, Jungers WL, Leakey LN. 2019. Complete permanent mandibular dentition of early Homo from the upper Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Ileret, Kenya. J Hum Evol. 131:152-175.

Fernández PJ, Mongle CS, Leakey L, Orr CM, Patel BA, Almecija S, Tocheri MW, Jungers WL. 2018. Functional morphology and evolution of the hominin forefoot. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 115:8746-8751.

Márquez S, Pagano AS, Mongle CS, Albertine KH, Laitman JT. 2018. The Nasal Complex of a Semiaquatic Artiodactyl, the Moose (Alces alces): Is it a Good Evolutionary Model for the Ancestors of Cetaceans? Anat Rec. 302:667-692.

Grine FE, Marean CW, Faith JT, Black W, Mongle CS, leRoux S, duPlessis A. 2017. Further human fossils from the Middle Stone Age deposits at Die Kelders Cave 1, Western Cape Province, South Africa. J Hum Evol. 109:70-78.

Smaers JB, Mongle CS. 2017. On the accuracy and theoretical underpinnings of the multiple variance Brownian motion approach for estimating variable rates and inferring ancestral states. Biol J Linn Soc Lond. 121:229-238.

Smaers JB, Mongle CS, Kandler A. 2016. A multiple variance Brownian motion framework for estimating variable rates and inferring ancestral states. Biol J Linn Soc Lond. 118:78-94.

"Smaers, Mongle & Kandler (2016) expand on our current toolkit for reconstructing trait evolution by describing a new adaptive-peak-based model for phylogenetic comparative analysis in which rates of evolution may vary on different branches. (Goswami, 2016)"

Mongle CS, Wallace IJ, Grine FE. 2015a. Cross‐sectional structural variation relative to midshaft along hominine diaphyses. I. The forelimb. Am J Phys Anthropol 158:386–397.

Mongle CS, Wallace IJ, Grine FE. 2015b. Cross‐sectional structural variation relative to midshaft along hominine diaphyses. II. The hind limb. Am J Phys Anthropol 158:398–407.

Wallace IJ, Nesbitt A, Mongle CS, Gould ES, Grine FE. 2014. Age-related variation in limb bone diaphyseal structure among Inuit foragers from Point Hope, northern Alaska. Arch Osteoporos 9:202-212.

Wallace IJ, Demes B, Mongle CS, Pearson OM, Polk JD, Lieberman DE. 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

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