Australopithecus to Homo: Transformations in Body and Mind

By Henry M. McHenry and, K. Coffing. 2000

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1 Primate Origins and Supraordinal Relationships: Morphological Evidence (2006, background): “australopiths—primitive human ancestors with adaptations for bipedal locomotion but relatively small brains (McHenry and Coffing 2000)—any ‘‘brains first’’ scenario was decisively falsified, no matter how plausible it may have seemed on the surface.”
A cross-cultural analysis of the behavior of women and men: implications for the origins of sex differences. (2002, background): “In support of this view, the lesser size dimorphism as hominids evolved from the earlier Australopithecus to Homos was due to an increase in the size of females relative to males (McHenry & Coffing, 2000).”
The Importance of Honey Consumption in Human Evolution (2011, background): “5–2 million years ago, were the first to show signs of increased relative brain size (McHenry and Coffing 2000 ).”
Diet in early Homo : A review of the evidence and a new model of adaptive versatility (2006, result): “McHenry & Coffing (2000) challenged this assertion, however, suggesting that H. habilis and H. rudolfensis evince reduced cheek tooth area relative to reconstructed body size compared with australopiths and that this relative decrease is actually a key unique feature that H. habilis and H.…”