PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Publications

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. Early View. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24411

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. 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. Early View.

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

Forthcoming publications

In press:
Grine FE, Mongle CS, Smith SL, Black W, du Plessis A, Braga J. Human manual distal phalanges from the Middle Stone Age deposits of Klasies River Main Site, Western Cape Province, South Africa. J Hum Evol.

In press:
Strait DS, Mongle CS, Grine FE. The systematics of the robust Australopiths. In: Wood BA, Constantino P (eds). The Forgotten Lineage(s): Paleobiology of Paranthropus.

In revision:
Martin JM, Leece AB, Neubauer S, Baker SE, Mongle CS, Boschian G, Schwartz GT, Strait DS, Herries AIR. New Drimolen cranium documents microevolution in an early hominin species. Nature Ecology and Evolution

In submission
Smaers JB, Rothman RS, Hudson D, Balanoff A, Beatty B, Dechmann D, devVries D, Dunn J, Fleagle J, Gilbert C, Goswami A, Iwaniuk A, Jungers W, Kerney M, Ksepka D, Manger P, Mongle C, Smith A, Soligo C, Weisbecker V, Safi K. Evolutionary repatterning of the brain-body relationship in mammals. Science

Developed Software
Smaers JB, Mongle CS. Evomap: R package for evolutionary mapping of continuous traits. Github: JeroenSmaers/evomap. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1253030.
For examples and tutorials: https://smaerslab.com/software/

Published Abstracts

Mongle CS, Strait DS, Grine FE. 2020. Re-evaluation of the phylogenetic relationships of Australopithecus sediba. Am J Phys Anthropol.

Borries C, Mongle CS, Koenig A. 2019. Gestation length in African and Asian colobines. Am J Phys Anthropol.

Mongle CS, Strait DS, Grine FE. 2018. Phylogenetic implications of new craniodental character data for Ardipithecus ramidus. Am J Phys Anthropol.

Mongle CS, Nesbit A, Smaers J, Grine FE. Evidence that developmental processes bias multiple scales of variation and generate a line of least resistance for the evolution of the primate dentition. Northeastern Regional Vertebrate Evolution Symposium.

Strait DS, Mongle CS, Grine FE. The systematics of robust australopiths. Am J Phys Anthropol. [Invited Symposium: The Forgotten Lineage(s): Paleobiology of Paranthropus]

Mongle CS, Nesbitt A, Smaers JB, Grine FE. 2017. The developmental cascade biases rates of evolutionary change in the dentition. Am J Phys Anthropol.

Fernandez PF, Mongle CS, Patel BA, Tocheri MW, Jungers WL. 2017. Functional morphology and evolution of the early hominin forefoot. Am J Phys Anthropol.

Mongle CS, Koenig A, Sammonds K, Smaers JB, Borries C. 2016. Expensive tissues and gestation length in primates. Am J Phys Anthropol S159:233.

Mongle CS, Nesbitt A, Grine FE. 2015. A re-examination of maxillary shape variation and the attribution of Early Pleistocene fossils to the genus Homo. Am J Phys Anthropol S60:228

Mongle CS, Wallace, IJ, Grine FE. 2014. Diaphyseal Cross-sectional Variation in Extant Hominoid Humeri: Implications for Incomplete Hominid Fossils. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 153: 188-189.

Wallace IJ, Demes B, Mongle CS, Pearson OM, Polk JD, et al. 2014. Exercise-Induced Bone Formation Is Poorly Linked to Local Strain Magnitude in the Sheep Tibia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 153: 264-264.

Non Peer-Reviewed Publications

Mongle CS, Nishimura AC, Kling KJ, Lamb AR, Ekanayake-Weber M, de Vries D. Anthropologists get jazzed for science in New Orleans. Evol Anthropol 26:193-195 [News and Reviews Article]

Perlman RF, Nishimura AC, Mongle CS, Kling K, Guevara EE, Arslanian K. 2016. Life's a peach for anthropologists in Atlanta. Evol Anthropol 25:81–83. [News and Reviews Article]

Thompson NE, Cassalett S, Holowka NB, Perlman RF, Mongle, CS. 2014. Anthropology stampede in Calgary. Evolutionary Anthropology 23: 85-87. [News and Reviews Article]

Book Review

Mongle, CS. The Quarterly Review of Biology: Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins. By Peter Ungar. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press. $27.95. 248p. ISBN: 9780691160535. 2017.