Recent Articles
Articles by Sarah Hrdy
2009 Myths, monkeys and motherhood: A compromising life. In Lee Drickamer and Donald Dewsbury (eds.), Leaders in Animal Behavior: The Next Generation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available online.
2009 Meet the alloparents. Natural History (April):24-29. Available online.
[Meet the alloparents Podcast]
Photo by Noel Rowe/The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates
2009 High Five with Sarah Hrdy (Paleolithic Art). Forbes.com, edited by Hana R. Alberts. Available online.
Cucutini Figurine. Photo © Dan Hrdy
2008 Darwinism, Social Darwinism, and the “Supreme Function” of Mothers. Anthro Notes 29(2):10–14. American Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. [PDF]
2008 Cooperative breeding and the paradox of facultative fathering. In Robert Bridges (ed.), The Neurobiology of Parental Care, pp. 405–14. New York: Academic Press.
2007 Daddy dearest: What science tells about fatherhood, with Mary Batten. Time Magazine (June 18):60–61. Available online.
In press
Prologue: Allomothers across species, across cultures, and through time. In Gillian Bentley and Ruth Mace (eds.), Substitute Parents: Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting across Human Societies. Studies of the Biosocial Society. Oxford: Bergahn Books, in press.
What’s wrong with this picture? Guest Feature. In Tamás Székely, Allen J. Moore, and Jan Komdeur (eds.), Social Behaviour: Genes, Ecology and Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
In preparation
Classification of early infant care, with Noel Rowe, Stacey Tecot and Pat Wright. To be available online in 2010 at www.Alltheworldsprimates.com.
Earlier articles
Current list of other articles.
1976a The care and exploitation of nonhuman primate infants by conspecifics other than the mother. In J. S. Rosenblatt, R. Hinde, E. Shaw, C. Beer (eds.), Advances in the Study of Behavior 6, pp. 101–58. New York: Academic Press.
1976b Hierarchical relations among female Hanuman langurs (Primates: Colobinae, Presbytis entellus), by S. Hrdy and D. Hrdy. Science 193:913–15.
1986b Empathy, polyandry and the myth of the coy female. In Ruth Bleier (ed.), Feminist Approaches to Science, pp. 119–46. New York: Pergamon. Reprinted in Janet A. Kourany (ed.), The Gender of Science, pp. 171–91. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education/Prentice-Hall, 2002; reprinted in Elliott Sober (ed.), Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, pp. 131–59. Cambridge: Bradford Books of MIT Press, 2006.