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Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Professor Emerita, University of California, Davis
Academia
USA

About Sarah

Anthropologist and primatologist Dr Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is a professor emerita at the University of California, Davis, and a former Guggenheim Fellow, elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, California Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2014, the NAS honoured Hrdy for her “insightful and visionary synthesis of a broad range of data and concepts across the social and biological sciences to illuminate the importance of biosocial processes among mothers, infants, and other social actors in forming the evolutionary crucible of human societies.”

Her prizewinning books include The Woman that Never Evolved (1981, 1999), Mother Nature (1999), Mothers and Others (2009) and Father Time (2024).

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Stories by Sarah

  • Parenthood & Caregiving

“I wanted to understand the evolution of man-the-nurturer”

Interview with Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Author of Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

Birth of a Parent Podcast

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Book

Father time

A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies

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