Sarah B. Hrdy

Anthropologist

Recent Articles

Articles by Sarah Hrdy

2010   Appendix to Mothers and Others: On the prevalence of cooperative breeding in primates. [PDF]

2009   Myths, monkeys and motherhood: A compromising life. In Lee Drickamer and Donald Dewsbury (eds.), Leaders of Animal Behavior: The Next Generation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available online.





2009   Meet the alloparents. Natural History (April):24-29. Available online.                                              
                                              Photo by Noel Rowe



2009   How Humans Became Such Other-Regarding Apes.
Forum Essay, Discussion and Commentaries "On the Human". Available online.

2009   Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding.
Lecture, Forum Network, posted November 18, 2009. [Video]

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

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 [PDF].

1976   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.

1976   Hierarchical relations among female Hanuman langurs (Primates: Colobinae, Presbytis entellus), by S. Hrdy and D. Hrdy. Science 193:913–15.






1986   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.