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Personal Information
Born: July 11, 1946 Nationality: U.S. Married to Daniel B. Hrdy, M.D., Ph.D., 3 children sarahhrdy@citrona.com |
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Institutional Affiliation
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Professor Emerita Department of Anthropology University of California Davis, CA 95616 Also A.D. White Professor-at-Large Cornell University (2011 - 2017) Ithaca, New York |
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Education
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Radcliffe College, A.B. (summa cum laude), 1969 Harvard University, Ph.D. (Anthropology), 1975 |
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Honorary Degrees
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Honorary Doctorate (Science), Harvard University, June 4, 2009. [PDF] Honorary Doctorate (Humanistics), University of Humanistics, Utrecht, January 29, 2009. [PDF] Honorary Doctorate (Humane Letters), Willamette University, May 16, 2010. [PDF] Other Honors Back to Top Phi Beta Kappa Elected California Academy of Sciences, 1985 Geneva Sayre Lecturer, 1985, Russell Sage College Guggenheim Fellow, 1987-1988 Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal, 1988 Elected National Academy of Sciences, 1990 Elected Fellow Animal Behavior Society, 1990 Honorary Member Golden Key Honor Society, 1990 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992 Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Achievement,St. John's School, 1993 Spencer Lecturer, Oxford University, 1995 David French Lecturer in the Natural Sciences, Claremont Colleges, 1996 Howells Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Biological Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2001 Tanner Lecturer, University of Utah, 2001 Named one of Discover Magazine's "Fifty Most Important Women in Science", 2001 Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, University of California, 2002-2003 Tenth Annual Maurice Galante Lecturer, School of Medicine, UCSF, 2005 Centennial Medal, Harvard GSAS, 2007 Tinbergen Lecturer, Leiden, 2010 Westermarck Lecturer, Helsinki, 2010 Elected American Philosophical Society, 2011 A.D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University, 2011-2017 Patten Lecturer, Indiana University, 2012-2013 J. I. Staley Prize (for Mothers and Others), 2012 Howells Prize (for Mothers and Others), 2012 |
| Authored and Edited Volumes Back to Top | |
| 1972 | The Black-man of Zinacantan: A Central American Legend. The Texas Pan American Series.Austin: University of Texas Press. Reissued in paperback 2012. |
| 1977 | The Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (1980, paperback edition with new preface.) |
| 1981 |
The Woman that Never Evolved. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Chosen by New York Times Book Review as one of Notable Books of the Year in Science and Social Science.) Japanese edition (1982), Tokyo: Shisaku-sha. 1st French edition (1984), Des guenons et des femmes. Paris: Editions Tierce. 2nd French edition (1999), La femme qui n’evoluait jamais. Paris: Payot et Rivage. Italian edition (1985), La donna che non si e’evoluta. Rome: Franco Angeli Editore. Polish edition (2005), Kobieta której nigd. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Cis. |
| 1984 | Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives. Hausfater, G., and S. Hrdy, eds. New York: Aldine. (Selected as a 1984–1985 Outstanding Academic Books by Choice, The Journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries). Reprinted by New Brunswick, NJ: Aldine/Transaction, 2008. |
| 1999 | Mother Nature: A history of mothers, infants and Natural Selection. New York: Pantheon. (A BOMC Alternative Selection; Selected by Publisher's Weekly and by Library Journal as one of Best Books of 1999; chosen as a finalist for PEN USA West 2000 Literary Award for Research Nonfiction.) Published in UK as Mother Nature: Natural selection and the female of the species. London: Chatto and Windus). has been or is being translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Polish. |
| 2005 | Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis. 92nd Dahlem Conference Report. Edited by C. S. Carter, L. Ahnert, K. E. Grossmann, S. B. Hrdy, M. E. Lamb, S. W. Porges, and N. Sachser. Cambridge: MIT Press. Translated into German and Dutch. |
| 2009 | Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. |
| 2009 | Dutch edition: Een kind heeft vele moeders: Hoe evolutie ons sociaal heeft gemaakt.. Translated by Bart Voorzanger. Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam. |
| 2010 | German edition: Mütter und Andere: Wie die Evolution uns zu sozialen Wesen gemacht hat. Translated by Thorsten Schmidt. Berlin: Berlin Verlag. (Nominated as one of Best German Books in Science in 2010) |
| Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes Back to Top | ||
| 1974 | Male-male competition and infanticide among the langurs (Presbytis entellus) of Abu, Folia Rajasthan. Primatologica 22:19-58. | |
| 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 theStudy of Behavior 6. New York: Academic Press, pp. 101-158. | |
| 1976b | Hierarchical relations among female Hanuman langurs (Primates: Colobinae, Presbytis entellus), by S. Hrdy and D. Hrdy. Science 193:913-915. | |
| 1977 | Infanticide as a primate reproductive strategy. American Scientist 65(1):40-49. Reprinted in Paul Sherman and John Alcock (eds.), Exploring Animal Behavior: Readings from the American Scientist. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates 1993, 1998, 2001, 2005. | |
| 1978 | Allomaternal care and abuse of infants among Hanuman langurs. In: D. J. Chivers and J. Herbert (eds.), Recent Advances in Primatology. New York: Academic Press. | |
| 1979 | Infanticide among animals: A review, classification, and examination of the implications for the reproductive strategies of females. Ethology and Sociobiology 1:13-40. [PDF] | |
| 1981a | Measures of human disturbance in the habitats of South Asian monkeys, by N. Bishop, S. Hrdy, J. Teas and J. Moore. International Journal of Primatology 2:153-167. | |
| 1981b | "Nepotists" and "Altruists": The behavior of senescent females in macaques and langur monkeys. In: P. Amoss and S. Harrell (eds.), Other Ways of Growing Old, pp. 59-76. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. [PDF] | |
| 1982a | Positivist thinking encounters field primatology resulting in agonistic behavior. Social Science Information 21(2):245-250. | |
| 1982b |
Why human secondary sex ratios are so conservative: A distant reply from ninth century France, by S. Hrdy and Emily R. Coleman. Offprint circulated for Wenner Gren Symposium No. 88, Infanticide in Animals and Man, Cornell University,
August 16-22. |
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| 1983a | Behavioral biology and the double standard by S. Hrdy and G. C. Williams. In S. Wasser (ed.), Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates, pp. 3-17. New York: Academic Press. | |
| 1983b | Adaptive and nonadaptive classes of infanticide. In P. K. Seth (ed.), Perspective in Primate Biology, pp. 11–17. New Delhi: Today and Tomorrow. | |
| 1983c |
Sexually selected infanticide among female birds: A comment. Ethology and
Sociobiology 4:111. |
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| 1984a | Introduction: Female reproductive strategies. In M. Small (ed.), Female Primates: Studies by Women Primatologists, pp. 103–9. New York: Alan Liss. | |
| 1984b | Assumptions and evidence regarding the sexual selection hypothesis: A reply to Boggess. In G. Hausfater and S. Hrdy (eds.), Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives on Infanticide. New York: Aldine. | |
| 1984c | Comparative and evolutionary perspectives on infanticide: An introduction and overview, by S. Hrdy and G. Hausfater. In G. Hausfater and S. Hrdy (eds.), Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives on Infanticide. New York: Aldine. | |
| 1986a | Secondary sex ratios by maternal age, parity and rank in captive rhesus macaques, by M. Small and S. Hrdy. American Journal of Primatology 11:359–365. | |
| 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. 131–159. Cambridge: Bradford Books of MIT Press, 2006. | |
| 1986c | Sources of variance in the reproductive success of female primates. In Proceedings of the International Meeting on Variability and Behavioral Evolution. Rome: Academia Nazionale dei Lincei. | |
| 1987a | The patterning of sexual activity among primates, by S. Hrdy and P. Whitten. In B. Smuts, D. Cheney, R. Seyfarth, B. Smuts, R. Wrangham, and T. Struhsaker (eds.), Primate Societies, pp. 370–384. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
| 1987b | Sex-biased parental investment among primates and other mammals. In J. Lancaster and R. Gelles (eds.), Child Abuse and Neglect: A Biosocial Perspective, pp. 97–147. New York: Aldine. | |
| 1988a | Levels of complexity in the study of “adaptive” sex ratios. In Gary Greenberg and Ethel Tobach (eds.). Evolution of Social Behavior and Integrative Levels 3, pp. 147–163. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. | |
| 1988b | Commentary on “Huxley’s evolution and ethics in sociobiological perspective.” Zygon: Journal of Science and Religion 23(4):409–411. | |
| 1990 | Sex bias in nature and in history: A late 1980s re-examination of the “biological origins” argument. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 33:25–37. | |
| 1991a | Intensity of local resource competition shapes the relationship between maternal rank and sex ratios at birth in Cercopithecine primates, by Carel van Schaik and S. Hrdy. American Naturalist 138(6):1555–1562. | |
| 1991b | Infanticide as a reproductive strategy. Current Contents 40 (Oct. 7):8. Institute for Science Information. Available online at Garfield Library, University of Pennsylvania [PDF] | |
| 1992a | Fitness tradeoffs in the history and evolution of delegated mothering with special reference to wet-nursing. Ethology and Sociobiology 13(5/6):409–42. Also publishedin Stefano Parmigiani and Frederick Vom Saal (eds.), Infanticide and Parental Care, pp. 3–42. London: Harwood Academic, 1994. Reprinted in Laura Betzig (ed.), Human Nature: A Critical Reader, pp. 402–422. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. | |
| 1992b | Allocation of accumulated resources among close kin: Inheritance in Sacramento, California, 1890–1984, by Debra S. Judge and S. B. Hrdy. Ethology and Sociobiology 13(5/6):495–522. | |
| 1993a | Darwin and the puzzle of primogeniture: An essay on biases in parental investment after death, by S. B. Hrdy and Debra S. Judge. Human Nature 4(1):1–45. [PDF] | |
| 1993b | Geschlechtliche Ungleichheit in Natur and Geschichte. In Evolution und Anpassung. Christian Vogel zum 60, Geburtstag. Stuttgart: S. Hirzel Verlag. (Adapted from Hrdy 1990). | |
| 1995a | Infanticide: Let’s not throw out the baby with the bath water, by S. B. Hrdy, Charles Janson, and Carel van Schaik. Evolutionary Anthropology 3(5):151–154. | |
| 1995b | The primate origins of female sexuality, and their implications for the role of nonconceptive sex in the reproductive strategies of women. Human Evolution 10(2):131–144. | |
| 1996 | Infanticide. In D. Levenson and M. Ember (eds.), Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology 2:645–648. New York: Henry Holt. | |
| 1997a | Mainstreaming Medea. Preface to reprinted chapter on “Fitness tradeoffs in the history and evolution of delegated mothering.” In Laura Betzig (ed.), Human Nature: A Critical Reader, pp. 423–426. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| 1997b | Raising Darwin’s consciousness: Female sexuality and the prehominid origins of patriarchy. Human Nature 8(1):1-49. | |
| 2000a |
The optimal number of fathers: Evolution, demography, and history in the shaping of female mate preferences. Annals New York Academy of Sciences 907:75–96. [PDF].
Reprinted in 2003 in Steven Scher and Frederick Rauscher (eds.), Evolutionary Psychology: Alternative Approaches, pp. 111–129. Boston: Kluwer Academic. |
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| 2000b | Raising Darwin’s consciousness: Sexual selection and the prehominid origins of patriarchy. In Susan Iverson and Colin Blakemore (eds.), Gender and Society, pp. 143–199. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| 2001 | Preface. In Carel van Schaik and Charles Janson (eds.), Infanticide by Males and Its Implications, pp. vi–xiv. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
| 2002a | The past, the present and the future of the human family. In Grethe Peterson (ed.), The Tanner Lectures on Human Values 23, pp. 57–110. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Available online [PDF]. | |
| 2002b | Motherhood. In Mark Pagel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Evolution, pp. E55–65. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| 2003 | Maternal sentiments: How strong are they? Comment in Reply to Arthur Wolf. Current Anthropology 44 (Supplement):S41–42. | |
| 2005a | Cooperative breeders with an ace in the hole. In Eckart Voland, Athanasios Chasiotis,and Wulf Schiefenhovel (eds.), Grandmotherhood: The Evolutionary Significance of the Second half of the Female Life, pp. 295–317. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press/Transaction. | |
| 2005b | On why it takes a village: Cooperative breeders, infant needs and the future (excerpted and reprinted from Hrdy 2002a). In Robert Burgess and Kevin MacDonald (eds.), Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development, pp. 167–188.Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. | |
| 2005c | Comes the child before man: Cooperative breeding and the evolution of prolonged post-weaning dependence. In B. Hewlett and M. Lamb (eds.), Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods: Evolutionary, Developmental and Cultural Perspectives, pp. 65–91. New Brunswick, NJ: Aldine/Transaction. | |
| 2005d | Evolutionary context of human development: The cooperative breeding hypothesis. In C. S. Carter, L. Ahnert, K. E. Grossmann, S. B. Hrdy, M. E. Lamb, S. W. Porges, and N. Sachser (eds.), Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis. Dahlem Workshop 92. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Slightly revised version reprinted in 2008 in C. Salmon and T. Shackelford (eds.), The Evolutionary Psychology of the Family, pp. 39–68. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [PDF] | |
| 2005e | Group report: Biobehavioral processes in attachment and bonding, with J. F. Leckman, C. S. Carter, M. Hennessey, E. B. Keverne, G. Klann-Delius,C. Schradin, D. Todt, and D. Van Holst. In C. S. Carter, L. Ahnert,K. E. Grossmann, S. B. Hrdy, M. E. Lamb, S. W. Porges, and N. Sachser (eds.),;Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis, pp. 300–347. Dahlem Workshop 92. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. | |
| 2008a | Cooperative breeding and the paradox of facultative fathering. In Robert Bridges (ed.), The Neurobiology of Parental Care, pp. 405–414. New York: Academic Press. [PDF] | |
| 2008b | Is sex destiny? (excerpt from Mother Nature). In Jeremy Adelman et al., Worlds Together, WorldsApart: From the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (second ed.), p. 44. New York: W.W. Norton. | |
| 2009 | 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. | |
| 2009 | Cooperative breeding and human cognitive evolution. Burkart, Judith; S. Hrdy and C. van Schaik. Evolutionary Anthropology 18:175–186. [PDF] | |
| 2010a | Myths, monkeys and motherhood: An intellectual autobiography. In Lee Drickamer and Donald Dewsbury (eds.), Leaders in Animal Behavior: The Second Generation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 343-344. Available online. [PDF] | |
| 2010b | Appendix to Mothers and Others: On the prevalence of cooperative breeding in primates. [PDF] |
| 2010c | What’s wrong with this picture? Guest Feature. In Tamás Székely, Allen J. Moore, and Jan Komdeur (eds.), Social Behaviour: pp. 159-161. |
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| In press | Comes the Child before Man: Development's role in producing selectable variation. Evolutionary Anthropology. | |
| In prep | Comes the Child Before Man: Development plus social selection in the emergence of "emotionally modern" humans. In C. Meehan and A. Crittenden (eds.) Evolution of Childhood. Santa Fe: SAR Press. |
| Scholarly Writing for General Audiences Back to Top | ||
| 1976 | Affen morden ihre Kinder. Bild der Wissenschaft 13(7):34-43 | |
| 1978 | George Edwards: Depictor of nondescripts. Natural History. LXXVII (5):72-81. | |
| 1979 |
The fig connection, by S. Hrdy and W. Bennett. Harvard Magazine (Sept.–Oct.):24–30. |
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| 1981 | Lucy’s husband: What did he stand for? by S. Hrdy and W. Bennett. Harvard Magazine (July-Aug.): 7–9, 46. Reprinted in Alfred Rosenberger (ed.), The Science of Paleoanthropology: Notes and Readings. | |
| 1983a |
Heat loss. Science 834(8):72–76. Reprinted in Japanese (Quark) and Italian (Scienza 83). |
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| 1983b | The human element in the study of human nature. Reprint of Commencement Address given at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, May 22, 1983. St. Timothy’s Alumnae Bulletin, Stevenson, MD. | |
| 1984a | When the bough breaks. The Sciences 24(2):44–50. (To be reprinted by the Ransom Fellowship). | |
| 1984b | Infanticide: Male takeovers in Hanuman langur troops. In D. MacDonald (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Mammals, pp.410–411. Oxford: Equinox. | |
| 1988a | Daughters or Sons? Natural History (April):63–83. Reprinted in Russell L. Ciochon (ed.), The Primate Anthology: Essays on Primate Behavior, Ecology and Conservation from Natural History, Prentice Hall, 1997. | |
| 1988b | The primate origins of human sexuality. In Robert Bellig and George Stevens (eds.), The Evolution of Sex, pp. 100–136. Nobel Conference XXIII. New York: Harper and Row. | |
| 1988c | Raising Darwin’s consciousness. In Robert Bellig and George Stevens (eds.), The Evolution of Sex, pp. 159–69. Nobel Conference XXIII. New York: Harper and Row. Reprinted in 1990 in Zygon 25(2):129–137. | |
| 1988d | Sons vs. daughters: How they fare in different human and animal societies (excerpts from lecture delivered at Radcliffe Graduate Society Awards Dinner, May 5, 1988). Radcliffe Quarterly (September):11–12. | |
| 1989 | Dossier: Les animaux choisissents-ils le sexe de leurs petits? Terre Sauvage (Juillet-Aout) 31:78–93. (Adapted from Hrdy 1988a). | |
| 1990 | Gestes d’amour: La tendresse et les rites amoureux chex les primates. Terre Sauvage (special issue no. 5). (Adapted from Hrdy 1988b). | |
| 1992 |
National Institutes of the Environment. News comment. Evolutionary Anthropology 1(3):84–85. |
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| 1994 | Tradimenti senza estro. Sfera (special edition on “Eros and Ethos”) 38:18–23. | |
| 1995a | Rethinking mothers’ nature. Natural History 104(12):4. | |
| 1995b | Natural-born mothers. Natural History 104(12):30–42. Reprinted or excerpted in Physical Anthropology 97–98, pp. 78–85, Duskin/Brown and Benchmark; in Annual Editions Biopsychology 97/98, Biopsychology 98/99, pp, 100–106, Duskin/McGraw-Hill; also in The Lanahan Readings in the Psychology of Women and in 1998 Human Development, by Allen Keniston, Course Wise. | |
| 1995c | Hormonal cocktails for two, with Sue Carter. Natural History 104(12):34. | |
| 1995d | Liquid Assets: A brief history of wet-nursing. Natural History 104(12):40. Available on “Sound Clips” from Personal Audio. | |
| 1999 | Body fat and birth control. Natural History 108(8):88. Reprinted in Annual Editions: Anthropology, Spring 2001. | |
| 2001 | Mothers and others. Natural History (May):50–63. Available online. Reprinted in 2002 Annual Editions: Anthropology, Guilford, CN: McGraw Hill/Duskin; in Matt Ridley (ed.), Best American Science Writing 2002, New York: Ecco/Harper Collins;in Natalie Angier (ed.), Best American Science and Nature Writing, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2002; in Applying Cultural Anthropology, seventh edition, Mayfield Publishing, 2002. | |
| 2007 | Daddy dearest: What science tells about fatherhood, with Mary Batten. Time Magazine (June 18):60–61. Available online. | |
| 2008 |
Darwinism, Social Darwinism, and the “Supreme Function” of Mothers. Anthro Notes 29(2):10–14. American Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
Available online. |
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| 2009 | Meet the alloparents. Natural History (April):24–29. Available online. | |
| in prep | With Noel Rowe, Stacey Tecot and Pat Wright. To be available online at www.Alltheworldsprimates.com. | |
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2011
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(With Charlie Janson) The XXIIIrd Congress of the International Primatological Society: An increasingly globalized and holistic
primatology—Japanese-style. Evolutionary Anthropology 19(6):205209. |
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| in press | Overdue Dialogues. Foreward to Evolution's Empress: How females shape adaptation. Edited by M. L. Fisher; J. R. Garcia and R. Sokal Chang. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| Selected Reviews, Interviews, and Biographical Accounts Back to Top | ||
| 1979 | Understanding sociobiology, by Georgia Litwack. New England Magazine, Boston Globe, (April 8):6ff. | |
| 1984 | Nos ancêtres les guenons. L’Express (Dec. 28):24–25. | |
| 1984 | New view of female primates assails stereotypes, by Erik Eckholm. Science Times, New York Times (September 18). | |
| 1988 | Interview: Sarah Hrdy, by Thomas Bass. Omni (June):90ff. | |
| 1989a | Meurtres dans un jardin indien. Interview by Elena Adam. Terre Sauvage (Decembre) 35:86–95. | |
| 1989b | Sarah Blaffer Hrdy: Investment strategies for the evolving portfolio of female primates. In Donna Haraway, Primate Visions, pp. 349–367. Routledge. | |
| 1994 | Sarah Hrdy. In Thomas Bass, Reinventing the Future: Conversations with the World’s Leading Scientists, pp. 6–25. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley. (adapted from 1988 interview in Omni) | |
| 1995 | Primate suspect, by Lucy Hodges. The Times Higher Education Supplement (September 2):18–19. | |
| 1996 | Sarah Hrdy. In Sian Griffiths, (ed.), Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Forty Women Whose Ideas Shape the Modern World, pp. 37–144. Manchester: Manchester University Press. | |
| 1999 | Cooperative breeders – they really pay dividends, by Anne Sebba. The Times Higher Education (November). Available online. | |
| 1999 | Opinion interviews: Inhuman futures, with David Concar. New Scientist (December 14). | |
| 2000 | Primate expert explores motherhood’s brutal side, by Natalie Angier. Science Times, New York Times (March 8). | |
| 2000 | Tough love: Anthropologist Sarah Hrdy has a startling new take on motherhood, by Sally Lehrman. San Francisco Magazine (March):30–35. | |
| 2000 | Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer. Current Biography (June):14–18. | |
| 2002 | Sex, murder and motherhood, by Ralph Brave. UC Davis Magazine (Spring):26–30. | |
| 2002 | The fifty most important women in science, by Kathy A. Svitil. Discover Magazine (November):52–57. | |
| 2002 | Sexual stereotypes, by Jonathan.Knight. Nature 415:254-256. Available online (requires login & password). (but see Hrdy 1986, “Empathy, Polyandry” for earlier discussion) | |
| 2003 | The hardy Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, by Claudia Dowling. Discover Magazine (March):40–45. Available online. | |
| 2003 | Promiskuität ist Mütterlich. Geowissen 32. Available online. | |
| 2003 | The Bookshelf Talks with Sarah Hrdy. Scientists’ Nightstand. American Scientist Online (Nov. 25). Available online. | |
| 2009 | In a helpless baby, the roots of our social glue, by Natalie Angier. New York Times (March 2). Available online. | |
| 2009 | High Five with Sarah Hrdy (Paleolithic Art). Forbes.com, edited by Hana R. Alberts. Available online. | |
| 2009 | Book of the week: Mothers and Others, by Camilla Power. The Times Higher Education (May). Available online. | |
| 2009 | Interview on “Quirks and Quarks,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (May 9). Available online. | |
| 2009 | Mother of all books, book of all mothers: Author breaks open the whole area of mothering and female sexuality in evolutionary studies, by Claudia Casper. The Globe and Mail (May 9), Available online. | |
| 2009 | Caring cooperators, by Gillian R. Brown. Science 324 (June 26):1646–1647. | |
| 2009 | With a Little Help from My Friends, by William McGrew. American Scientist Online, July-August 2009. Available online. | |
| 2010 | Evolution Revisited: How Mothers and Others Make Us Human - An Editorial Based on a Transformational New Book by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, by Roberta J. Apfel, M.D., MPH. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 198 (3):169-173. | |
| 2010 | L'homme a été un animal moral avant d'inventer le langage. (Entretien) BOOKS No. 13:29-31. | |
| 2010 | Une chercheuse américaine répond à Elisabeth Badinter. par Anne Crignon. Nouvelle Observateur. online | |
| 2010 | La position d' Elisabeth Badinter est irresponsable. BOOKS No. 24:87-88 | |
| 2011 | It Does Take a Village, by Melvin Konner. New York Review of Books December 8, 2011/Vol. XVIII(19):37-8. online | |
| Book Reviews Back to Top | ||
| 1979a | The evolution of human sexuality: The latest word and the last. Quarterly Review of Biology 54(3):309-314. | |
| 1979b | A field study of Sumatran orang utans, by H. Rijksen for Quarterly Review of Biology 53(4):493-494. | |
| 1979c | Biology and conservation of the Callitrichidae, edited by D. Kleiman for Quarterly Review ofBiology 54(2):200. | |
| 1980 | The great apes, edited by D. Hamburg and E. Mc Gown. Science 207:632-634. | |
| 1981 | Malaysian forest primates, edited by D. Chivers, for Quarterly Review of Biology 56:482. | |
| 1985a | A shattering of stereotypes, Review of Female Strategies by Evelyn Shaw and Joan Darling for Natural History 94(6):72-77. | |
| 1985b | The endangered sex: Neglect of female children in rural North India, by Barbara Miller for AmericanAnthropologist 87:719-720. | |
| 1988a | Skeptic amidst the converted, Review of Primate Sociobiology by Joseph Patrick Gray for American Journal of Primatology 14:103-106. | |
| 1988b | Some of her closest friends. Review of Elephant Memories by Cynthia Moss. New York Times Book Review (March 27). | |
| 1989 | Born to get along together. Review of Peacemaking Among Primates by Frans de Waal. New York Times Book Review (April 9). | |
| 1990 | Culture evolves towards the hamburger. Review of Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going by Marvin Harris. New York Times Book Review (April 8). | |
| 1992a | Review of Evolution of Parental Care, with Marc Hauser et al. Evolution 46(3):852. | |
| 1992b | The Myth of Mother Love. Review of Death Without Weeping by Nancy Scheper-Hughes. New York Times Book Review (August 30). | |
| 1993 | Ape and essence. Review of Visions of Caliban by Dale Peterson and Jane Goodall. New York Times Book Review (June 13). | |
| 2000 | Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian look at human behavior by Bobbi S. Low. Quarterly Review of Biology 75(2):217-218. | |
| 2004 | Sexual diversity and the gender agenda: review of Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender and Sexuality in Nature and in People by Joan Roughgarden. Nature 429:19-21. | |
| Films Back to Top | ||
| 1977 | “Stolen copulations”; “Play”; and “Kidnapped,” by S. B. Hrdy, D. B. Hrdy, and John Melville Bishop. 16mm, color. | |
| 1980 | “Hanuman langur: Monkey of India,” by S. B. Hrdy, Vishnu Mathur, and William Whitehead. 30 minutes, color. Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Available from CBC Enterprises, P.O. Box 500, Terminal A, Toronto, Ontario M5W 1E6, Canada. | |
| 1983 | Treatment for film on reproductive strategies of female primates, for BBC Natural History Unit, Bristol. | |
| 1988 | Monkeys of Abu. National Geographic Explorer. (May). | |
| 1990 | Member of the Advisory Board, Nature, Channel 13, New York, for series on the natural history of sex. | |
| 1990 | Consultant for Human Nature, for BBC, Bristol. | |
| 2001 | Advisor for PBS series “Evolution.” | |
| 2007 | Advisor for “Il était un fois l’instinct maternel” (50 minutes, color), a film based on French edition of Mother Nature. Directed by Emma Baus and Jacqueline Farmer. St. Thomas Productions, France. | |
| Teaching and Fellowships Back to Top | ||
| 1967 | Teaching hygiene to Spanish-speaking adults, El Paraiso, Honduras | |
| 1973 | Instructor in Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston | |
| 1975–1976 | Lecturer in Biological Anthropology, Harvard University | |
| 1977–1978 | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Biology Department, Harvard University | |
| 1978–1981 | Volunteer Teacher’s Assistant, Harvard Yard Day Care Center, Cambridge, MA | |
| 1979–present | Associate in Biological Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University | |
| 1980–1981 | Senior Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, New Delhi, India | |
| 1981–1982 | Visiting Associate Professor, Rice University | |
| 1984–1996 | Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis | |
| 2010-2017 | A.D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University | |
| Fieldwork Back to Top | ||
| 1966–1967 | Medical technician. Amigos de las Americas, in cooperation with Education for Action, Radcliffe College, Honduras and Guatemala. | |
| 1966–1969 | Ethnographic research in Maya-speaking communities in the Yucatan and Chiapas, Mexico, under the direction of Evon Vogt. | |
| 1970 | Research Assistant to Dr. Neil Chalmers. Tigoni Primate Center, under the direction of L. S. B. Leakey. | |
| 1971–1975 | Dissertation research on langur monkeys, Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India, under the supervision of Irven DeVore, R. L. Trivers, and E. O. Wilson. | |
| 1976 | Field survey of prosimians, Madagascar. | |
| 1976–1978 | Follow-up visits to Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India. | |
| 1979–1980 | Field observations on langur monkeys at Ranthambore and Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation. | |
| 1986–1996 | Archival research involving probate records of Sacramento (1860–1980) and Yolo (1890) counties, CA, and Suffolk County, MA (1690–1890). | |
| Presentations at Professional Meetings, Symposia, Workshops, and Invited Lectures (selected list) Back to Top | ||
| 1976 | A reproductive value interpretation of hierarchical relations among female Hanuman langurs. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 44:186. | |
| 1976 | Allomaternal care and abuse of infants among Hanuman Langurs. Abstracts of the Sixth Congress of the International Primatological Society. Cambridge. | |
| 1976 | Infanticide as a primate reproductive strategy. Women in Science Lecture Series, April 6, University of Michigan. | |
| 1977 | Allomaternal choice of charges among Hanuman langurs. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 47:137–138. | |
| 1979 | The evolution of sexual dichromatism among primates, by S. Hrdy and J. Hartung. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 50:450. | |
| 1980 | Satellite symposium on Theoretical Models on Male and Female Reproductive Strategies with Respect to the Actual Behavior of Langurs. 8th Congress of the International Primatological Society, July 4–6, Florence, Italy. | |
| 1981 | Moderator, Conference on the Great Apes: Fossey, Galdikas and Goodall. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. | |
| 1982 | Conference on Infanticide in Animals and Men, co-organized with G. Hausfater. Wenner-Gren Foundation. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. | |
| 1982 | Wenner-Gren Symposium on Infanticide in Animals and Man. August 16–22, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. | |
| 1982 | Opportunities and responsibilities for women: An anthropologist’s view. Centennial History Seminar, February 5 and 6, St. Timothy’s School, Stevenson, MD. | |
| 1982 | Loss of estrus in Homo sapiens. Public colloquium sponsored jointly by Anthropology Department and those interested in Women’s Studies, March 11, University of Texas, Austin. | |
| 1982 | The woman that never evolved. Programs of Distinction Grants to Psychology Department, March 1, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC. | |
| 1982 | Ideas program panel on sociobiology and women (with Michael Ruse and Anne Innis Dagg), March 3, CBC National Radio. | |
| 1982 | The importance of non-human primates for understanding human evolution and behavior. World Wildlife Fund International Symposium on Tropical Forest and Primates, November 5, Rice University, Houston. | |
| 1983 | Infanticide in evolution and in history. Douglas College, Rutgers Colloquium Series on Violence and Aggression, February 16, New Brunswick, NJ. | |
| 1983 | Female and male strategies of reproduction among langur monkeys. American Museum of Natural History Lecture Series on Primates: Behavior, Ecology and Conservation, March 8, New York. | |
| 1983 | Sex and evolution: A woman’s perspective. Symposium series on Women’s Perspectives on Their Discipline, April 6, Rice University, Houston. | |
| 1983 | Sociobiology and primate evolution. The Genetics Revolution Residency Program, funded by a Bush Foundation grant to Minnesota State University System, April 11, Moorehead, MN. | |
| 1983 | The human element in the study of human nature. Commencement Address, May 22, Reed College, Portland, OR. | |
| 1983 | The evolution of primate behavior: A female perspective. Dane Science Lecture, Pine Manor College, September 29, Chesnut Hill, MA. | |
| 1983 | Apes, Angels and Victorians. Roxbury Clinical Record Club, October 25, Boston, MA. | |
| 1983 | Recent Advances in Behavioral Evolution of Mammals and Man. November 23, Academica Nazionale de Lincei. | |
| 1983 | Variability and Behavioral Evolution. November 24–26, Institute of Genetics, University of Rome. | |
| 1984 |
Evolutionary perspectives on motherhood. Conference on The Many Phases of Eve, University of California Extension, Los Angeles, February 26. (Tape available through Infomedix, UCLA Extension, Continuing Education in Health Sciences, Program K132,
tape 6). |
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| 1985 | Raising Darwin’s consciousness. The 1985 Geneva Sayre Lecture, March 19, Russell Sage College, Troy, NY. | |
| 1985 | Looking out for the fates of infants. Symposium on Feminist Perspectives on Science, April 11–12, Madison, WI. | |
| 1985 | Sons or daughters: That is the question. Spotlight on Women Scholars, October 23, University of California, Davis (tape available through Women’s Resources and Research Center, UCD); also delivered for UC Davis International House, January 21, 1986. | |
| 1985 | Levels of complexity: “Adaptive” sex ratios among primates. Third T. C. Schneirla Conference, November 7–9, American Museum of Natural History, New York. | |
| 1985 | Discussant. Symposium on the Anthropology of Gender Hierarchies. 84th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC. | |
| 1985 | Allocation of investment in sons and daughters. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 66(2):182. | |
| 1986 | Co-organizer with Joan Silk and Dorothy Cheney, Symposium on Primate Reproductive Strategies. 85th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia. | |
| 1986 | Secondary sex ratios by maternal rank, parity and age in captive rhesus macaques by M. F. Small and S. Hrdy. Abstracts of XIth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Gottingen. | |
| 1986 | Comparative primatology and the absence of estrus in Homo sapiens. May 20, Anthropological Society of Washington, DC. | |
| 1986 | The absence of estrus in the human female. Symposium on the Origins of Human Sexuality, November 9, sponsored by the Institute of Human Origins, the California Academy of Sciences, and the University of California, Berkeley. | |
| 1987 | The primate origins of female sexuality. Nobel Conference XXIII on the Evolution of Sex, October 6–7, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN. | |
| 1987 | Primate sex ratios: An examination of the evidence. Symposium on Facultative Sex Ratios and Sex Ratio Theory, organized by N. Burley and P. Gowaty for the American Society of Zoologists and the Animal Behavior Society Annual Meeting, December 30, New Orleans. | |
| 1987 | Factors affecting the production and survival of daughters versus sons among primates, by M. F. Small and S. Hrdy. Abstracts of the 86th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. | |
| 1988 | Bias and equality in American legacies, by Debra S. Judge and Sarah B. Hrdy. Abstracts of the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. | |
| 1988 | Workshop on Primate Sex Ratios, co-organized with Jeanne Altmann. Animal Behavior Winter Meeting, Park City, UT, January. | |
| 1988 | Sons vs. daughters. Radcliffe Graduate Society, May 5, Cambridge, MA. | |
| 1989 | Sex bias in nature and history. Keynote address, annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, April 7, San Diego. | |
| 1989 | Family structure and the investment in kin at death, by Debra S. Judge and Sarah B. Hrdy. First Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. | |
| 1989 | Chair, session on Human Behavioral Ecology. First Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. | |
| 1989 | Discussant. Symposium on Diachronic Anthropology and Processes of Culture Change over Time and Space. 88th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC. | |
| 1990 | Protection and Abuse of Young in Animals and Man. International School of Ethology, sponsored by the Italian Ministries of Education and of University and Scientific Research, and the National Science Foundation (USA), June 13–20, Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily. | |
| 1990 | Intensity of local resource competition shapes the relationship between maternal rank and sex ratios, by Carel van Schaik and S. B. Hrdy. American Journal of Primatology 20:240. | |
| 1991 | Cultural and ecological influences on the distribution of resources at death, by Debra S. Judge and S. B. Hrdy. Abstracts for Human Behavior and Evolution Society Annual Meeting, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. | |
| 1992 | Intergenerational transfer. Conference on Biology and Economics, April 24–26, Santa Fe Institute. | |
| 1992 | The Evolution of the Meaning of Sexual Intercourse, University “La Sapienza.” Sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Italian Government, October 19–21, Rome. | |
| 1992 | Panelist. Tanner Lecture in Human Values. University of Utah, Salt Lake City. | |
| 1992 | Discussant. Symposium on the Functional and Adaptive Significance of Sexual Advertisements. XIVth Congress of the International Primatological Society. Strasbourg, France, August 16–21. | |
| 1992 | The absence of estrus in Homo sapiens. Invited address, annual meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research, July 7–11, Prague, Czechoslovakia. | |
| 1993 | Raising Darwin’s consciousness. Lecture Series on Gender and Science, Princeton University, November 28, Princeton, NJ. | |
| 1993 |
Discussant. Symposium on Richard Posner’s Sex and Reason. Sponsored by Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Stanford University School of Law,
March 7. |
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| 1993 | Presenter. Symposium on Living and Dying. Organized by Ernst Schaefer, Harvard College Class of 1968, 25th Reunion, Harvard University, June 9. | |
| 1995 | Symposium on Menstruation, Menstrual Synchrony, and the Life Histories of Females, co-organized with Beverly Strassmann. Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research, Provincetown, MA, September 20–24. | |
| 1995 | Nobody’s Children. Sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Association and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, September 28–30, University of Durham, England. | |
| 1995 | Raising Darwin’s consciousness: Female sexuality and the prehominid origins of patriarchy. Spencer Lectures on Gender and Society, Oxford University, December 4, Oxford. | |
| 1996 | Changing Images of Primate Society: The role of theory, method and gender. Wenner-Gren Conference, June 15–23, Teresopolis, Brazil. | |
| 1996 | Symposium on Neurobiology of Love, organized by Kerstin Uvnas Moberg and Sue Carter. August 28–31, Wenner-Gren Center, Stockholm. | |
| 1998 | Discussant. Symposium on Theory. Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IL. | |
| 1998 | Discussant. Symposium on Humankind’s Evolutionary Roots: Our Place in Nature, organized by Morris Goodman. Sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Field Museum, October 9–11, Chicago. | |
| 1999 | When females mate with multiple mates: A comparative view. Symposium on Partible Paternity: Matings with Multiple Males, organized by S. Beckerman and Paul Valentine. Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Jan. 22, Anaheim. | |
| 1999 | The optimal number of fathers in a variable world occupied by cads and dads. Colloquium Series on Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Reproductive Behavior, organized by P. Moller and D. Le Croy, March 24, City University of New York. | |
| 1999 | If evolutionary theory is so powerful, why do we still need history. Keynote address, Annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, June 4, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. | |
| 1999 | Wet nursing, daycare and debates over “mother love”: What they do and don’t tell us about maternal nature. October 5, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Harvard Museum of Anthropology, Harvard University. (Also given at American Museum of Natural History; Princeton; Washington State University; Sacramento City College, and Zero to Three). | |
| 2000 | Mother-love and ambivalence: An evolutionist asks why human infants cost so much. Keynote address, Fifth Annual College Celebration, April 28, UC Davis. | |
| 2000 | Raising Darwin’s consciousness: Sexual selection from a mother’s point of view. Keynote lecture for symposium on Gender and Inquiry, October 12, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. (Essentially the same talk also delivered October 7, as Keynote lecture for conference on the Theory of Women sponsored by the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy and Humanities Research Council of Canada, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. | |
| 2001 | Visiting Professor. Workshop in Evolutionary Ecology, University of Western Australia, Perth. | |
| 2001 | Mother love and ambivalence: Reconciling historical and evolutionary perspectives and cooperation, empathy and the needs of human infants. Annual Tanner Lectures on Human Values, February 27 and 28, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. | |
| 2001 | How maternal instincts shaped the human species. E. N. Thomson Forum on World Issues, March 5, Lincoln, NE. | |
| 2001 | How sociobiology helps us understand the nature of mothers. University of Mainz, June 18, Mainz, Germany. | |
| 2001 | Maternal love and ambivalence in the Pleistocene, the 18th century, and right now. Oregon Humanities Center, November 16, Eugene. | |
| 2002 | Maternal love and ambivalence (in an ape with a heritage of cooperative breeding). Plenary. 16th Biennial Conf. of International Society of Human Ethology, August 7-10, Montreal. | |
| 2002 | Humans as cooperative breeders: An evolutionary and comparative perspective. Workshop on Hunter-Gatherer Childhood, organized by Barry Hewlett and Michael Lamb. Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies. September 7–13, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. | |
| 2002 | Humans as cooperative breeders with an ace in the hole. Conference on Grandmothers: The Psychological, Social, and Reproductive Significance of the Second Half of Life, organized by Eckart Voland. Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, September 19–21, Delmenhorst, Germany. | |
| 2003 | Dahlem Workshop on Attachment and Bonding. September 28–October 3, Berlin. | |
| 2003 | Conversation with Joan Raphael-Leff on Maternal Ambivalence, British Psychoanalytic Society, July 15, London. | |
| 2003 | Mother love and ambivalence in the Pleistocene, the 18th century, and now. Carl Friedrich Von Siemens Foundation, October 14, Munich. | |
| 2003 | Rethinking the origins of the human family. November 13, UC Davis Emeriti Association. | |
| 2005 | Evolutionary context of development. Rethinking Child Development Conference, October 7, UC Berkeley. | |
| 2005 | Old biologies/new technologies: 21st century motherhood conference. October 20–22, University of Houston. | |
| 2006 | The evolutionary context of development. Symposium on Shared Subjectivities in Brain, Mind and Psychopathology, sponsored by Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance, in collaboration with the Tavistock Clinic, London. October 14, Harvard University. | |
| 2007 | Cooperative breeding and the paradox of facultative fathering. Plenary lecture, Parental Brain Conference, June 14, Boston. | |
| 2008 | Workshop on History and Deep Time, organized by Daniel Smail and Andrew Shyrock. Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, January 11–12. | |
| 2009 | With Frans de Waal, gave the keynote addresses in Symposium Biology and Ethics: Towards a New Dialogue, University for Humanistics, Utrecht, January 30. | |
| 2009 | Discussant, Third Annual International Conference on Human Rights, Conflict Resolution and Nonviolence and Peace, Barbara and Norman C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy. The Evolution of Human Aggression, February 25–27, Salt Lake City, Utah. | |
| 2009 | Darwin and the Ascent of Emotionally Modern Man. Lecture presented at the Darwinfest, Arizona State University, April 29, Tempe; also presented for the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation at the California Academy of Sciences, May 19, San Francisco. | |
| 2009 | Darwin and the Ascent of Man: Why humans are such hypersocial apes. Lecture presented at the Darwin Celebration, University of Cambridge, England, July 7. [Video] | |
| 2009 | CRASSH Seminar (long version of the Darwin talk) at Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproductive Forum, Cambridge, England, July 10. | |
| 2009 | Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), July 16. | |
| 2009 | Lecture presented at Charles Darwin Symposium: Shaping our Science, Society and Future, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia, September 23. | |
| 2009 | Mothers and Others: The origin of emotionally modern humans. Public Lecture, Harvard University Museums, Cambridge, MA, November 18. | |
| 2009 | Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Training Program. New York City, November 30. | |
| 2009 | The origin of emotionally modern humans. Annual Lecture, Biological Anthropology Section, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, December 2. | |
| 2010 | Mothers and Others: How humans became such hyper-social apes. San Antonio, March 8. | |
| 2010 | Plenary Lecture International Society of Primatology, held at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Sept. 12-18. | |
| 2010 | Tinbergen Lecture: Tinbergen and the Psychological Implications of Humankind's Deep History of Cooperative Child-rearing, Leiden, The Netherlands, Nov. 12. [Video] | |
| 2010 | Westermarck Society Memorial Lecture: How humans evolved to be such prosocial apes, capable of entertaining Westermarck's "Moral Ideas", Helsinki, Finland Nov. 18. | |
| 2010 | Public lecture TBA, at CARTA symposium on Altruism: The role of social selection. University of California-San Diego and Salk Institute, San Diego, California, Dec. 10. | |
| 2011 | Convocation. Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 29. | |
| 2011 |
Keynote Address. Fifth Annual Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society
Conference, University of Binghamton, April 1-3. |
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| 2011 |
Plenary. Human Behavior and Evolutionary Society Meetings. Montpellier, France,
June 29-July 3. |
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| 2011 |
The Origins of Emotionally Modern Humans. A.D. White Public Lecture, Cornell
University, October 17. |
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| 2011 |
Why paternal commitment is so variale in humans. Family and Children's Services,
Ithaca, New York, October 18. |
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| 2011 |
How did humans become such other-regarding apes? Laboratory of Ornithology,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, October 21. |
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| 2011 |
Evolutionary Infancy and the Human Story. Esalen Conference on the New Human
Story, December 4-9. |
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| 2012 |
The origin of emotionally modern humans. Keynote Address, American Society of
Primatologists, Sacramento, California, June 21. |
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| Departmental Seminars (selected) Back to Top | ||
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1973, 1975, 1976 |
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge | |
| 1976 | Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston | |
| 1977 | Institute for Animal Behavior, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ | |
| 1977 | Department of Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC | |
| 1977 | Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle | |
| 1977 | Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis | |
| 1979 | Department of Anthropology, Delhi University, New Delhi, India | |
| 1980 | Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston | |
| 1981 | Departments of Psychology and Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada | |
| 1981 | Department of Biology, Rice University, Houston | |
| 1982 | Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas | |
| 1983 | Department of Women’s Studies, Dartmouth, Hanover NH | |
| 1983 | Department of Women’s Studies, Hunter College, New York City | |
| 1983 | Family Violence Research Seminar, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston | |
| 1985 | Primate Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison | |
| 1986 | Department of Psychology and Area Studies Program, University of Texas at Arlington | |
| 1986 | Department of Anthropology, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA | |
| 1986 | Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis Medical School | |
| 1992 | Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City | |
| 2001 | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology | |
| 2001 | University of Southern California, Los Angeles | |
| 2001 | University of Oregon, Eugene | |
| 2003 | Brandeis University, Boston | |
| 2009 | Seminar, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, October 6, 2009 | |
| 2009 | Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, October 8, 2009 | |
| 2010 | Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich. Mothers and Others: What does it mean to develop and evolve as a cooperatively breeding ape? Zurich, Switzerland, Nov. 15, 2010 | |
| 2010 | University of California-San Diego Anthropology Department Seminar, 3-5 p.m. Mothers and Others: What does it mean to develop and evolve as a cooperatively breeding ape? San Diego, California, Dec. 13, 2010 | |
| 2011 | Psychology Department, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California |
| Editorial Service Back to Top |
| 1980–1998 | Consulting Editor, American Journal of Primatology | |
| 1984–1990 | Advisory Board, Primates (Japan) | |
| 1984–1991 | Editorial Board, Cultural Anthropology | |
| 1985–1996 | Series editor, Foundations of Human Behavior, Aldine, Hawthorne, NY. | |
| 1989- | Associate Editor, Human Nature | |
| 1991-1995 | Advisory Editorial Board, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | |
| 1991- | Associate Editor, Evolutionary Anthropology | |
| 2001- | Editor, National Academy of Sciences book series, Joseph Henry Press. | |
| 2000-2002 | Editorial Advisor, Encyclopedia of Evolution. Mark Pagel, editor-in-chief. Oxford University Press. (named Outstanding Reference Book of the Year, 2002, by American Library Association) | |
| 2007- | Advisory Committee, Science Essentials Series, Princeton University Press. |
| Public and Professional Service Back to Top |
| 1981- | Incorporator, Harvard Magazine | |
| 1982-1984 | Trustee, St. Timothy’s School, Stevenson, MD | |
| 1982-1985 | Director, Harvard Magazine | |
| 1985-1987 | Advisory Committee, Women’s Resources and Research Center, UC Davis | |
| 1989-1995 | Visiting Committee, Peabody Museum, Harvard University | |
| 1989-1991 | Board of Directors, The Digit Fund | |
| 1989-1990 | Regional Council, Davis Science Center | |
| 1991- | Advisory Council, National Institutes of the Environment | |
| 1994-1997 | Board of Directors, Committee for National Institutes of the Environment |
| 1995-1997 | Membership Committee for Evolutionary and Population Biology and Ecology. American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 1995-1999 | Executive Council, Human Behavior and Evolution Society | |
| 2000-2006 | Dean’s Council, Harvard University | |
| 2001-2004 | Committee on Human Rights, National Academy of Sciences | |
| 2008- | Executive Council, Human Behavior and Evolution Society |
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