Born on 19 May 1944 in Los Angeles; Married with two children.
Address:
Department of Anthropology
University of
California
Davis, CA 95616
Telephone: (530) 752-1588 or 752-0745
e-mail: HMMCHENRY@UCDAVIS.EDU
Education:
1969-72 Harvard University, Ph.D. 1972 Anthropology
1962-67 University of California, Davis, B.A. 1966, M.A. 1967 Anthropology
Employment:
1971-present Assistant to Full Professor of
Anthropology, University of California, Davis
1984-88 Chair, Department of
Anthropology, University of California, Davis
Professional Societies:
American Association for
the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
California Academy of Sciences (Fellow)
Society of Sigma Xi
American Anthropological Association
(Fellow)
Society for the Study of Evolution
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
American
Association of Physical Anthropologists
Society of Systematic Biology
Honors and Awards:
UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and
Scholarly Achievement ($30,000);
Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Elected
Fellow, California Academy of Science;
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science;
Prize for the Best Student Paper, 37th
Meeting, American Association Physical Anthropologists.
1. 1968 McHenry, Henry M. Transverse lines in the long bones of California Indians. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 29:1-17.
2. 1971 McHenry, Henry M. and Eugene Giles. Morphological variation and heritability in three Melanesian populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 35: 241-253.
3. 1973 McHenry, Henry M. Early hominid humerus from East Rudolf, Kenya. Science, 180: 739-741.
4. 1973 McHenry, Henry M.Australopithecine anatomy. Book review of Early Hominid Posture and Locomotion by J. T. Robinson. Science, 181: 738-739.
5. 1973 McHenry, Henry M. Humerus of robust Australopithecus. Science, 182: 396.
6. 1974 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of Emergence of Man by John Pfeiffer. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 40: 279-298.
7. 1974 McHenry, Henry. How large were the australopithecines? American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 40: 329-340.
8. 1974 McHenry, Henry. Comment on: Darwin's apes, dental apes, and the Descent of Man: normal science in evolutionary anthropology by Russell Tuttle. Current Anthropology, 15: 406.
9. 1974 McHenry, Henry. Book review of New Perspectives on Ape and Human Evolution, by Adriaan Kortlandt. Current Anthropology, 15: 435-436.
10. 1975 McHenry, Henry. Fossil hominid body weight and brain size. Nature, 254: 686-688.
11. 1975 McHenry, Henry. The ischium and hip extensor mechanism in human evolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 43: 39-46.
12. 1975 Schulz, Peter D. and Henry M. McHenry. Age distribution of enamel hypoplasia in prehistoric California Indians. Journal of Dental Research, 54: 913.
13. 1975 McHenry, Henry M. and Robert S. Corruccini. Distal humerus in hominoid evolution. Folia Primatologica, 23: 227-244.
14. 1975 McHenry, Henry M. A view of the hominid lineage. Book review of Uniqueness and Diversity in Human Evolution by C. E. Oxnard. Science, 189: 988.
15. 1975 McHenry, Henry. A new pelvic fragment from Swartkrans and the relationship between the robust and gracile australopithecines. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 43: 245-263.
16. 1975 McHenry, Henry M. and Robert S. Corruccini. Multivariate analysis of early hominid pelvic bones. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 43: 263-270.
17. 1975 McHenry, Henry M. Biomechanical interpretation of the early hominid hip. Journal of Human Evolution, 4: 343-355.
18. 1975 Corruccini, Robert S., Russell L.Ciochon and Henry M. McHenry. Osteometric shape relationships in the wrist joint of some anthropoids. Folia Primatologica, 24: 250-274.
19. 1975 McHenry, Henry M. Fossils and the mosaic nature of human evolution. Science, 190: 425-431.
20. 1976 McHenry, Henry. Multivariate analysis of early hominid humeri. In: Measures of Man, E.Giles and J.S. Friedlaender, eds. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, Harvard Univeristy pp. 338-371.
21. 1976 Robert S. Corruccini, Russell L. Ciochon, and Henry M. McHenry. The postcranium of Miocene hominoids: Were the dryopithecines merely "dental apes?" Primates, 17: 205-230.
22. 1976 McHenry, Henry M., Robert S. Corruccini and F. Clark Howell. Analysis of an early hominid ulna from the Omo Basin, Ethiopia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 44: 295-304.
23. 1976 McHenry, Henry M. and Peter D. Schultz. The association between Harris lines and enamel hypoplasia in prehistoric California Indians. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 44: 507-512.
24. 1976 McHenry, Henry M. and Robert S. Corruccini. Affinities of Tertiary hominoid femora. Folia Primatologica 26:139-150.
25. 1976 McHenry, Henry M. Fossil hominid femora and the evolution of walking. Nature, 259: 657-658.
26. 1976 McHenry, Henry M. and Robert S. Corruccini. Fossil hominid femora. Nature, 264: 813.
27. 1977 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of the Evolution of Man. American Anthropologist, 79: 706-707.
28. 1978 McHenry, Henry M. and Peter D. Schulz. Harris lines, enamel hypoplasia, and subsistence changes in prehistoric Central California. Ballena Press: Publications in Archaeology, History, and Ethnology, D.R. Touhy, ed. pp. 36-49.
29. 1978 McHenry, Henry M. Fore- and hindlimb proportions in Plio/Pleistocene hominids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 49: 15-22.
30. 1978 McHenry, Henry M. and Robert S. Corruccini. The femur in early human evolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 49: 473-488.
31. 1978. McHenry, Henry M. Analysis of the hominoid os coxae by Cartesian coordinates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 48: 215-266.
32. 1978 McHenry, Henry M. Relative femoral head size in early hominids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 49:145-148.
33. 1979 McHenry, Henry M. Morphological affinities of Pan paniscus. Science, 204: 1341-1343.
34. 1979 McHenry, Henry M. and L. Alis Temerin. The evolution of hominid bipedalism: evidence from the fossil record. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 22:105-131.
35. 1980 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of The Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution< by W. E. LeGros Clark. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 54: 485.
36. 1980 Rodman, Peter S.and Henry M. McHenry. Bioenergetics and the origin of hominid bipedalism. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 52: 103-106.
37. 1980 McHenry, Henry M. and Robert S. Corruccini. On the status of Australopithecus afarensis. Science, 207: 1103-1104.
38. 1980 Corruccini, Robert S. and Henry M. McHenry. Hominid femoral neck length. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 52: 397-398.
39. 1980 McHenry, Henry M., Peter Andrews, and Robert S. Corruccini. Miocene hominoid palatofacial morphology. Folia Primatologica, 33: 241-252.
40. 1980 Corruccini, Robert S. and Henry M. McHenry. Cladometric analysis of Pliocene hominids. Journal of Human Evolution, 9: 209-221.
41. 1980 McHenry, Henry M. and Robert S. Corruccini. Late Tertiary hominoids and human origins. Nature, 285: 397-398.
42. 1980 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of Early Hominids of Africa edited by Clifford Jolly. American Anthropologist, 82: 397-398.
43. 1981 McHenry, Henry M. Comment on: Bonobos: Generalized hominid prototypes or specialized insular dwarfs? by S. C. Johnson. Current Anthropology, 22:367.
44. 1981 McHenry, Henry M. and Robert S. Corruccini. Pan paniscus and human evolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 54:355-367.
45. 1982 McHenry, Henry M. The pattern of human evolution: Studies on bipedalism, mastication, and encephalization. Annual Review of Anthropology, 11: 151-173.
46. 1983 McHenry, Henry M. and Robert S. Corruccini. The wrist of Proconsul africanus and the origin of hominoid postcranial adaptations. In: Miocene Hominoids and New Interpretations of Ape and Human Ancestry. R.L. Ciochon and R.S. Corruccini, eds. New York: Plenum Press. pp. 353-367.
47. 1983 McHenry, Henry M. Conference on the evolution of human locomotion. Interim Evidence 5(2):9-10.
48. 1983 McHenry, Henry M. The capitate of Australopithecus afarensis and A. africanus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 62:187-198.
49. 1983 McHenry, Henry M. Relative size of cheek teeth in Australopithecus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 60(2):224.
50. 1984 Dickel, D. N., P. D. Schulz, and H. M. McHenry. Central California: Prehistoric subsistence changes. In: Paleopathology and Socioeconomic Change at the Origins of Agriculture, M. N. Cohen and G. Armelagos, eds. New York: Academic Press, pp. 439-461.
51. 1984 McHenry, Henry M. The common ancestor: a study of the postcranium of Pan paniscus, Australopithecus and other hominoids. In: The Pygmy Chimpanzee. R. L. Susman, ed., New York: Plenum Press, pp. 201-230.
52. 1984 McHenry, Henry M. Relative cheek tooth size in Australopithecus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 64(3):297-306.
53. 1984 McHenry, Henry M. Size and shape of the hominoid foot: implication for function and evolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 63:192.
54. 1984 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of The Australopithecine Face by Yoel Rak. American Anthropologist, 86:1033-1034.
55. 1984 McHenry, Henry M. "Oreopithecus." The Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier, Inc., Danbury, Conn., Vol. 21, p. 57.
56. 1984 Skelton, R. R. , H. M. McHenry, and G. M. Drawhorn. Phylogenetic analysis of Plio-Pleistocene hominids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 63:219.
57. 1985 McHenry, Henry M. Implications of postcanine megadontia for the origin of Homo . In: Ancestors: The Hard Evidence. E. Delson, ed., New York: Alan R. Liss. pp. 178-183.
58. 1985 McHenry, Henry M. Evolution. In: The Social Science Encyclopedia, A. K. Kuper and J. Kuper (eds):. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 280-283.
59. 1985 McHenry, Henry M. Book review: Size and Scaling in Primate Biology by W. L. Jungers. Science, 228:1189-1190.
60. 1985 McHenry, Henry M. and R. R. Skelton. Is Australopithecus africanus ancestral to Homo? In: P. V. Tobias (ed.): Hominid Evolution: Past, Present, and Future. New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc., pp. 221-226.
61. 1986 McHenry, Henry M. and Christopher J. O'Brien. Comment on: Systematic butchery by Plio/Pleistocene hominids at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania by H. T. Bunn and E. M. Kroll. Current Anthropology, 27:L447.
62. 1986 McHenry, Henry M. Size dimorphism in the postcranium of early Australopithecus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 69:238.
63. 1986 McHenry, Henry M. Size variation in the postcranium of Australopithecus afarensis and extant species of Hominoidea. Human Evolution, 1:149-156.
64. 1986 McHenry, Henry M. The first bipeds: a comparison of the A. afarensis and A. africanus postcranium and implications for the evolution of bipedalism. Journal of Human Evolution, 15:177-191.
65. 1986 McHenry, Henry M. Sexual dimorphism and human origins. Abstracts of the 85th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association. Published by the American Anthropological Association, Washington D. C., pp. 240.
66. 1986 Skelton, R. R., H. M. McHenry, and G. M. Drawhorn. Phylogenetic analysis of Plio-Pleistocene hominids. Current Anthropology, 27(1):21-43.
67. Skelton, Randall R. and Henry M. McHenry. On the phylogenetic analysis of early hominids. Current Anthropology, 27:361-365.
68. 1987 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of Primate Morphophysiology Locomotor Analyses and Human Bipedalism. Shiro Kondo, ed. American Anthropologist, 89:216-217.
69. 1987 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of Understanding Human Evolution, Frank E. Poirier. American Anthropologist, 89:734-735.
70. 1988 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of Another Unique Species: Patterns in Human Evolutionary Ecology. Annals of Human Biology, 15.
71. 1988 McHenry, Henry M. New estimates of body weight in early hominids and their significance to encephalization and megadontia in robust australopithecines. In: The Evolutionary History of the "Robust" Australopithecines. F. E. Grine, ed. Aldine, New York, pp. 133-148.
72. 1989 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of Early Hominid Activity at Olduvai by Richard Potts. Journal of Human Biology 1:797-798.
73. 1990. McHenry, Henry M. Book review of Orang-utan Biology. J. H. Schwartz, ed. American Anthropologist 92:228-229.
74. 1991 McHenry, Henry M. Sexual dimorphism in Australopithecus afarensis. Journal of Human Evolution. 20:21-32.
75. 1991 McHenry, Henry M. Human evolution. Encyclopedia of Human Biology. Renato Dulbecco, ed. Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 487-493.
76. 1991 McHenry, Henry M. Femoral lengths and statue in Plio-Pleistocene hominids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 85:149-158.
77. 1991 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of The Human Career: Human biological and cultural origins. Evolutions 45:465-466.
78. 1991 McHenry, Henry M. First Steps? Analyses of the postcranium of early hominids. In: Origine(s) de la Bipedie chez les Hominides, Y. Coppens and B. Senut, eds., Cahiers de Paleoanthropologie, Editions du CNRS, Paris, pp. 133-141.
79. 1991 McHenry, Henry M. The petite bodies of the "robust" australopithecines. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 86:445-454.
80. 1992 McHenry, Henry M. Body size and proportions in early hominids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 87:407-431.
81. 1992 McHenry, Henry M. How big were early hominids? Evolutionary Anthropology, 1:15-20.
82. 1992 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of Olduvai Gorge Volume 4: The Skulls, Endocasts, and Teeth of Homo habilis. Evolution 46(2):580-581.
83. 1992 Skelton, R. R. and H. M. McHenry. Evolutionary relationships among early hominids. Journal of Human Evolution, 23:309-349.
84. 1992 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of Koobi Fora Research Project Volume 4: Hominid Cranial Remains. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 89:499-501.
85. 1993 Harcourt, Alexander H., Henry M. McHenry and Peter S. Rodman. Book review of Topics in Primatology. International Journal of Primatology, 14:949-955.
86. 1994 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus. American Journal of Primatology 34: 333-334.
87. 1994 McHenry, Henry M. Early hominid postcrania: Phylogeny and function. In: Integrative Pathways to the Past: Paleoanthropological Papers in Honor of F. Clark Howell. Corruccini, R. S. and Ciochon, R. eds. Prentice-Hall, Inglewood Cliffs, N.J., pp. 251-261.
88. 1994 McHenry, Henry M. Behavioral ecological implications of early hominid body size. Journal of Human Evolution 27: 77-87.
89. 1994 McHenry, Henry M. Tempo and mode in human evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 91: 6780-6786.
90. 1994 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of The Nariokotome Homo erectus Skeleton. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 94:281-283.
91. 1994 McHenry, Henry M. Hominid dualism. Science 265: 1116-1117.
92. 1996 McHenry, Henry M. Sexual dimorphism in fossil hominids and its socioecological implication. In: The Archaeology of Human Ancestry: Power, Sex, and Tradition. J. Steels and S. Skennan, eds. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp. 91-109.
93. 1996 McHenry, Henry M. Homoplasy, clades, and hominid phylogeny. In: Contemporary Issues in Human Evolution. W.E. Meikle, F.C. Howell, and N.G. Jablonski, eds. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, pp. 77-92
94. 1996 McHenry, Henry M.Biology and body size in human evolution. Current Anthropology 37: 470.
95. 1996 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of Human Evolution, 1996 Edition by Milford H. Wolpoff. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 101: 301-302.
96. 1997 McHenry, Henry M. Australopithecus africanus: out of step in the human parade? Journal of Human Evolution 32: 12-13.
97. 1997 McHenry, Henry M. "Robust" australopithecines, our family tree, and homoplasy. In: Research Frontiers in Anthropology. Volume 3: Physical Anthropology. C.R. Ember, M.Ember, and P.N. Peregrine, eds. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, pp. 231-252.
98. 1997 McHenry, Henry M. Human evolution. In: Encyclopedia of Human Biology, Second Edition. Renato Dulbecco, ed. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 593-599.
99. 1997 McHenry, Henry M. Book Review of Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils: Miocene Hominoid Evolution and Adaptations. D.R. Begun, C.V. Ward, M.D. Rose, eds. International Journal of Primatology, 18: 1053-1056.
100. 1997 McHenry, Henry M. Boisei's body: Postcranial attribution, size, function, and phylogeny. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 24: 166.
101. 1998 Skelton, Randall R. and Henry M. McHenry. Trait list bias and a reappraisal of early hominid phylogeny. Journal of Human Evolution, 34: 109-113.
102. 1998 McHenry, Henry M. 'Mrs. Ples' now and then. South African Journal of Science, 93: 165.
103. 1998 McHenry, Henry M. and Lee R. Berger. Body proportions in Australopithecus afarensis and A. africanus and the origin of the genus Homo. Journal of Human Evolution, 35: 1-22.
104. 1998 Strasser, Elizabeth, John Fleagle, Alfred Rosenberger, and Henry M. McHenry, eds. Primate Locomotion: Recent Advances. New York: Plenum Publishing.
105. 1998 McHenry, Henry M. Fossils and reconstructing the origins and evolution of taxa-introduction. In: Primate Locomotion: Recent Advances. E. Strasser, J. Fleagle, A. Rosenberger, and H.M. McHenry, eds. New York: Plenum Publishing, pp. 333-336.
106. 1998 McHenry, Henry M. and Lee R. Berger. Limb lengths in Australopithecus and the origin of the genus Homo. South African Journal of Science 94: 447-450.
107. 1998 McHenry, Henry M. Book review of Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils: Miocene Hominioid Evolution and Adaptations. International Journal of Primatiology 18: 1053-1056.
108. 1999 Ruff, Christopher B., Henry M. McHenry, and J. Francis Thackeray. Cross-sectional morphology of the SK 82 and 97 proximal femora. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 109:509-521.
109. 2000 McHenry, Henry M. and Katherine E. Coffing. Australopithecus to Homo: Transformations of body and mind. Annual Review of Anthropology 2000 29:125-166.
110. 2000 Coffing, Katherine E. and Henry M. McHenry. Clades and hominid postcranial fossils. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 30:127.
111. 2001 Coffing, Katherine E., Henry M. McHenry, and C. Boesch. Climbers and tool users: hand function and metacarpal strength of hominids at Sterkfontein and Swartkrans, and of nut-cracking chimps from the Tai Forest, Ivory Coast. Journal of Human Evolution 40(3):A6.
112. 2001 Corruccini, Robert S. and Henry M. McHenry. Knuckle-walking hominid ancestors. Journal of Human Evolution 40:507-511.
113. 2001 McHenry, Henry M. Review of The Last Neanderthal: The Rise, Success, and Mysterious Extinction of our Closest Human Relatives by Ian Tattersall and Extinct Humans by Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey Scwartz. Museum Anthropology 25:59-60.
114. 2001 McHenry, Henry M. Review of Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory, edited by Eric Delson, Ian Tattersall, John A. Van Couvering, and Alison S. Brooks. New York, Garland Publishing. American Journal of Primatology 55:131-132.
115. 2001 McHenry, Henry M. Review of Old World Monkeys edited by Paul F. Whitehead and Clifford J. Jolly. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press. Palaios 16:614.
116. 2002 McHenry, Henry M. Introduction to the fossil record of human ancestry. In The Primate Fossil Record. Walter C. Hartwig, editor. Cambridge, University of Cambridge Press. Pp. 401-406.
117. 2003 Haeusler, Martin and Henry M. McHenry. Limb proportions of Homo habilis reviewed . American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 36:107.
118. 2004 Haeusler, Martin and Henry M. McHenry. Body proportions of Homo habilis reviewed. Journal of Human Evolution 46:433-465.
119. 2004 McHenry, Henry M. Origin of human bipedality. Evolutionary Anthropology 13:116-119.
120. 2004 McHenry, Henry M. Uplifted head, free hands, and the evolution of human walking. In From Biped to Strider: The Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource Transport. D. Jeffrey Meldrum and Charles E. Hilton, editors. New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Pp.203-210.
121. 2005 McHenry, Henry M. Upright walking. Book review of Upright Walking edited by Jens Lorenz Franzen, Meike Köhler, and Salvador Moyà-Solà, Courier Forschungsinstitut Senkenberg 243, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nagele u. Obermiller): Stuttgart. 2003. International Journal of Primatology 26:1209-1211.
122. 2005 McHenry, Henry M. Mathematical dissections of primatology. American Journal of Primatology 66: 285-287.
123. 2005 McHenry, Henry M. Comment on. "Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Limb Proportions" Current Anthropology 46:583-584.pdf
124. 2006 McHenry, Henry M. and Andrea L. Jones Hallucial convergence in early hominids. Journal of Human Evolution , 50: 534-539.
125. 2007 McHenry, Henry M. Australopithecus. Encyclopędia Britannica. Retrieved October 19, 2007 from Encyclopędia Britannica Online
126. 2007 Haeusler, Martin and Henry M. McHenry. Evolutionary reversals of limb proportions in early hominids? evidence from KNM-ER 3735 (Homo habilis). Journal of Human Evolution 53:383-405.
127. 2007 McHenry, Henry M, Cassandra C. Brown, and Lindsay J. McHenry. Fossil hominin ulnae and the forelimb of Paranthropus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 134:209-218.
128. 2007 McHenry, Henry M. Review of Human Origins and Environmental Background. Hidemi Ishida, Russell Tuttle, Martin Pickford, Naomichi Ogihara, and Masato Nakatsukasa (eds). Springer, New York, 2006. International Journal of Primatology 28: 961-963. 66: 285-287.pdf
129. 2008 McHenry, Henry M. and Eric Delson. Obituary: William White Howells (1908-2005). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 135:249-251.
130. n.d. McHenry, Henry M. and Cassandra C. Brown. Side steps: The erratic pattern of hominin postcranial change through time. Journal of Human Evolution. in press.