Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is an American anthropologist and primatologist who has made several major contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology. She has been selected as one of the 21 “Leaders in Animal Behavior.”
Books in order of publication:
1972: The Black-man of Zinacantan: A Central American Legend. The Texas Pan American Series. Austin: University of Texas Press.
1977: The Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
1981: The Woman that Never Evolved. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Notable Books of the Year in Science and Social Science.)
1984: Hausfater, G. and S. Hrdy, eds. Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives. New York: Aldine Publishing Co.
1999: Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants and Natural Selection. New York: Pantheon.
2009: Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
2024: Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies. Princeton University Press.
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