John G. Fleagle is an American anthropologist, primatologist, and Distinguished Professor at State University of New York, Stony Brook.

He graduated from Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 cum laude in 1971, and from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 with a M.S. in Anthropology in 1973, and from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, with a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology in 1976.

Works

A selection of Fleagle's works is listed below.

• Anthropoid origins, Editors John G. Fleagle, Richard F. Kay, Plenum Press, 1994, ISBN 9780306447914
• Primate communities, Editors John G. Fleagle, Charles Helmar Janson, Kaye E. Reed, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 9780521629676
• Primate adaptation and evolution, Academic Press, 1999, ISBN 9780122603419
• Primate biogeography: progress and prospects, editors Shawn M. Lehman, John G. Fleagle, Springer, 2006, ISBN 9780387298719
• Elwyn Simons: a search for origins, Editors John G. Fleagle, Christopher C. Gilbert, Springer, 2007, ISBN 9780387738956