Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

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Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

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#311

Historical Rank

#119

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According to Wikipedia, Sarah Hrdy is an American anthropologist and primatologist who has made major contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology. She is considered "a highly recognized pioneer in modernizing our understanding of the evolutionary basis of female behavior in both nonhuman and human primates". In 2013, Hrdy received a Lifetime Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution from the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.

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Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's Published Works

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Published Works

Infanticide among animals: A review, classification, and examination of the implications for the reproductive strategies of females (1979) (1166)
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding (2009) (747)
The Woman That Never Evolved (1999) (585)
Cooperative breeding and human cognitive evolution (2009) (459)
Male-male competition and infanticide among the langurs (Presbytis entellus) of Abu, Rajasthan. (1974) (429)
Care and Exploitation of Nonhuman Primate Infants by Conspecifics Other Than the Mother (1976) (351)
Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species (1999) (347)
Mothers and Others (2011) (328)
The Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction (1977) (326)
2. Evolutionary context of human development: the cooperative breeding model (2005) (297)
Attachment and bonding: a new synthesis (2005) (208)
Infanticide as a primate reproductive strategy. (1977) (171)
Fitness tradeoffs in the history and evolution of delegated mothering with special reference to wet-nursing, abandonment, and infanticide (1992) (141)
Darwin and the puzzle of primogeniture (1993) (137)
Intensity of Local Resource Competition Shapes the Relationship between Maternal Rank and Sex Ratios at Birth in Cercopithecine Primates (1991) (128)
Hierarchical Relations Among Female Hanuman Langurs (Primates: Colobinae, Presbytis entellus) (1976) (125)
7 Empathy, Polyandry, and the Myth of the Coy Female (1986) (119)
Mother Nature. Natural Selection and the Female of the Species. London (Chatto and Windus) 1999. (1999) (108)
The Optimal Number of Fathers: Evolution, Demography, and History in the Shaping of Female Mate Preferences (2000) (104)
Raising Darwin’s consciousness (1997) (88)
Allocation of accumulated resources among close kin: Inheritance in Sacramento, California, 1890–1984 (1992) (79)
1 – Behavioral Biology and the Double Standard (1983) (67)
The ‘one animal in all creation about which man knows the least’ (2013) (62)
Comes the Child before Man : How Cooperative Breeding and Prolonged Postweaning Dependence Shaped Human Potential (2017) (46)
Variable postpartum responsiveness among humans and other primates with “cooperative breeding”: A comparative and evolutionary perspective (2016) (45)
Sex bias in nature and in history: a late 1980s reexamination of the "biological origins" argument (1990) (44)
The Evolution of Human Sexuality: The Latest Word and the Last (1979) (41)
Infanticide: Let's not throw out the baby with the bath water (2005) (40)
Development + Social Selection in the Emergence of “Emotionally Modern” Humans (2014) (39)
The emergence of emotionally modern humans: implications for language and learning (2020) (37)
Cooperative Breeding and the Paradox of Facultative Fathering (2008) (36)
A Sociobiological Analysis of Human Infanticide (2017) (30)
Measures of human influence in habitats of South Asian monkeys (1981) (28)
15. Group report: Biobehavioral processes in attachment and bonding (2005) (26)
Primate behavior. (1980) (26)
"Nepotists" and "Altruists": The Behavior of Old Females Among Macaques and Langur Monkeys (1981) (26)
RAISING DARWIN'S CONSCIOUSNESS: FEMALES AND EVOLUTIONARY THEORY (1990) (13)
The evolution of female orgasms: logic please but no atavism (1996) (13)
Ayoreo Infanticide: A Case Study (2017) (12)
The Optimal Number of Fathers (2003) (12)
Meet the alloparents: Shared child care may be the secret of human evolutionary success. (2009) (11)
Meet the alloparents (2006) (9)
The Past, Present, and Future of the Human Family (2001) (8)
On Why it Takes a Village: Cooperative Breeders, Infant Needs, and the Future (2005) (8)
Infanticide in Red Howler Monkeys [Alouatta seniculus) (2017) (7)
The primate origins of female sexuality, and their implications for the role of nonconceptive sex in the reproductive strategies of women (1995) (7)
Infant Killing and Male Reproductive Strategies in Langurs [Presbytis entellus) (2017) (5)
A disputed legacy (1981) (5)
Book Review:Malayan Forest Primates: Ten Years' Study in Tropical Rain Forest. David J. Chivers (1981) (5)
Milestones for Irv DeVore and the Simian Seminar (2005) (5)
The natural history of mothers and infants : An evolutionary and anthropological perspective (2014) (5)
Positivist thinking encounters field primatology, resulting in agonistic behavior (1982) (5)
Infanticide by males and its implications: Foreword (2000) (3)
The primate origins of female sexuality, and their implications for the role of non-conceptive sex in the reproductive strategies of women (1996) (3)
When the Bough Breaks (1984) (3)
Skeptic amidst the converted. Review of Primate Sociobiology, by Joseph Patrick Gray. New Haven, HRAF Press, 1985, 376 pp, $30.00 paper (1988) (3)
Hormonal Cocktails for Two (1995) (3)
Sexual diversity and the gender agenda (2004) (2)
Infanticide in Nonhuman Primates: An Introduction and Perspective (2017) (2)
Group Report: Social Bonding as a Biobehavioral Process (2005) (1)
The Black-man of Zinacantan, a Central American legend : including an analysis of tales recorded and translated by Robert M. Laughlin (1972) (1)
Causes and Consequences on Infanticide in Populations of Rodents (2017) (1)
Correspondence: Referendum on Darkness in EI Dorado and Danger to Immunization Campaigns (2003) (1)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India (1985) (1)
Darwinism, Social Darwinism, and the Supreme Function of Mothers (2014) (1)
Infanticidal males and female counter-strategists %W have book extra copy by author (1977) (1)
The Evolutionary Ecology of Sex Allocation: A Primer (2017) (1)
The origin of emotionally modern humans: How did humans become such "other-regarding" apes? (2013) (1)
Irven DeVore, 1934–2014 (2015) (1)
Book Review:A Field Study on Sumatran Orang Utans (Pongo pygmaeus abelii, Lesson 1827): Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation. H. D. Rijksen (1978) (1)
Book Review:The Biology and Conservation of the Callitrichidae. Devra G. Kleiman (1979) (0)
Die kooperative Erziehung und das Paradox der fakultativen Vaterschaft (2011) (0)
Plants, Power, and Profit: Social, Economic and Ethical Consequences of the new Biotechnologies, Lawrence Busch, William B. Lacy, Jeffrey Burkhardt, and Laura Lacy. 1992. Blackwell Publishers, Cambridge, MA. 288 pages. ISBN: 1-55786-088-2 (hc); 1-55786-379-2 (pb). $39.95 (hc); $19.95 (pb (1993) (0)
The puzzle of langur infant sharing %W have book extra copy by author (1977) (0)
National Institutes of the Environment (2005) (0)
Sex Differences: Modern Biology and the Unisex Fallacy, Yves Christen. 1991. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ. 141 pages. ISBN: 0-88738-869-8. $29.95 (1993) (0)
Comment: Sexually selected infanticide among female birds (1983) (0)
Culture conscious (1982) (0)
Parental Care Comes of Age@@@The Evolution of Parental Care. (1992) (0)
Daddy dearest. (2007) (0)
Book Review:Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior Bobbi S. Low (2000) (0)
Animal Science and Management Animal Science and Management the Major Program Anthropology the Major Program (0)
The XXIIIrd Congress of the International Primatological Society: An increasingly globalized and holistic primatology—Japanese‐style (2010) (0)
Contributions of Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (2013) (0)
How Reliance on Allomaternal Care Shapes Primate Development with Special Reference to the Genus Homo (2022) (0)
Ape and essence (1993) (0)
Sport and Exercise Science: Essays in the History of Sports Medicine, Jack W. Berryman and Roberta J. Park. 1992. The University of Illinois Press, Champaign, IL. 392 pages. ISBN: 0-252-01896-6 (hc); 0-252-06242-6 (pb). $44.95 (hc); $18.95 (pb (1993) (0)
6. A Biobehavioral Model of Attachment and Bonding (2017) (0)
PARENTAL CARE COMES OF AGE (1992) (0)
Sociobiology's Successes (1996) (0)
Alison Jolly: A supremely social intelligence (1937–2014) (2014) (0)
Books received (2006) (0)
Body Fat and Birth Control: For most of human history, girls in their early teens simply did not get pregnant. (1999) (0)
Mother Knows Best (2000) (0)
least''one animal in all creation about which man knows the (2014) (0)
Anthropology the Major Program (0)

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