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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1988 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 1982 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

John G. Fleagle is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields of study, primarily focusing on psychology, agricultural and biological sciences, and earth and planetary sciences.

Their subfields of specialization include social psychology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, paleontology, genetics, and ecology.

The primary topics covered in their work are:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Christopher C. Gilbert
  • Andrea L. Baden
  • Kelsey D. Pugh
  • Dorien de Vries
  • Erik R. Seiffert

Some of the prominent venues where John G. Fleagle has published include:

  • The Quarterly Review of Biology
  • Journal of Human Evolution
  • Science Advances
  • Science
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Recent papers by John G. Fleagle include:

  • The evolution of mammalian brain size, 2021, Science Advances
  • A parapithecid stem anthropoid of African origin in the Paleogene of South America, 2020, Science
  • New Middle Miocene Ape (Primates: Hylobatidae) from Ramnagar, India fills major gaps in the hominoid fossil record, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • An Early Oligocene age for the oldest known monkeys and rodents of South America, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The taxonomic attribution of African hominin postcrania from the Miocene through the Pleistocene: Associations and assumptions, 2022, Journal of Human Evolution

John G. Fleagle has received recognition as a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1988 and as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1982.

Best Publications

  • Primate Adaptation and Evolution

    John G. Fleagle

  • Stratigraphic placement and age of modern humans from Kibish, Ethiopia

    Ian McDougall;Francis H. Brown;John G. Fleagle

  • Locomotor behavior, body size, and comparative ecology of seven Surinam monkeys

    John G. Fleagle;Russell A. Mittermeier

  • Primate Adaptation and Evolution.

    Jeffrey W. Froehlich;John G. Fleagle

  • Primate Adaptation and Evolution

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  • Locomotion and posture of the Malayan siamang and implications for hominoid evolution.

    John G. Fleagle

  • Primate locomotion : recent advances

    Elizabeth Strasser;John G. Fleagle;Alfred L. Rosenberger;Henry McHenry

  • Size and Adaptation in Primates

    John G. Fleagle

  • Locomotor behavior and skeletal morphology of two sympatric pitheciine monkeys, Pithecia pithecia and Chiropotes satanas.

    John G. Fleagle;D. Jeffrey Meldrum

  • Locomotor behavior and muscular anatomy of sympatric Malaysian leaf-monkeys (Presbytis obscura and Presbytis melalophos).

    John G. Fleagle

  • The First Humans – Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo

    Frederick E. Grine;John G. Fleagle;Richard E. Leakey

  • Locomotion and Posture

    John G. Fleagle

  • The locomotor and postural repertoires of Ateles geoffroyi and Colobus guereza, and a reevaluation of the locomotor category semibrachiation

    Russell A. Mittermeier;John G. Fleagle

  • Sexual dimorphism in early anthropoids.

    John G. Fleagle;Richard F. Kay;Elwyn L. Simons

  • Oligocene mammals from Ethiopia and faunal exchange between Afro-Arabia and Eurasia

    John Kappelman;D. Tab Rasmussen;William J. Sanders;Mulugeta Feseha

  • The fayum primate forest revisited

    Thomas M. Bown;Mary J. Kraus;Scott L. Wing;John G. Fleagle

  • Takeoff and landing forces of leaping strepsirhine primates.

    B. Demes;J.G. Fleagle;W.L. Jungers

  • Skeletal and dental morphology supports diphyletic origin of baboons and mandrills

    John G. Fleagle;W. Scott McGraw

  • The phyletic position of the Parapithecidae

    John G. Fleagle;Richard F. Kay

  • The humerus of Aegyptopithecus zeuxis: a primitive anthropoid.

    John G. Fleagle;Elwyn L. Simons

  • Diet of the northern bearded saki (Chiropotes satanas chiropotes): A neotropical seed predator.

    Marc G. M. Van Roosmalen;Russell A. Mittermeier;John G. Fleagle

  • Dynamics of a brachiating siamang [ Hylobates (Symphalangus) syndactylus ]

    John Fleagle

  • The first humans : origin and early evolution of the genus Homo : contributions from the third Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium and Workshop, October 3-October 7, 2006

    Frederick E. Grine;John G. Fleagle

  • Neotropical rainforest mammals: A field guide

    John G. Fleagle

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick E. Grine
Frederick E. Grine Stony Brook University
Elwyn L. Simons
Elwyn L. Simons Duke University
Thomas M. Bown
Thomas M. Bown United States Geological Survey
William L. Jungers
William L. Jungers Stony Brook University
Richard F. Kay
Richard F. Kay Duke University
John J. Shea
John J. Shea Stony Brook University
Ian McDougall
Ian McDougall Australian National University
Carl C. Swisher
Carl C. Swisher Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michael D. Petraglia
Michael D. Petraglia Griffith University
Francis H. Brown
Francis H. Brown University of Utah

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