Latest Research
An updated analysis of hominin phylogeny with an emphasis on re-evaluating the phylogenetic relationships of Australopithecus sediba
Carrie Mongle, David Strait, Frederick Grine
The discovery and description of Australopithecus sediba has reignited the debate over the evolutionary history of the australopiths and the origin of the genus Homo. Here we address this question, while also providing a comprehensive update to the hominin character matrix (which is available to download!).
Carrie S. Mongle, Ph.D.
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 and maintain a research affiliation at the American Museum of Natural History.
Ongoing Fieldwork
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.
Contact
carrie.mongle@stonybrook.edu Stony Brook University
Social and Behavioral Sciences, N537
Stony Brook, New York 11794