Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis. She is a former Guggenheim fellow and a Member of the National Academy of Science, and the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences. Hrdy is the author of many books concerned with anthropology, primatology, and evolutionary psychology, including Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding.
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
“Darwin’s ideas about evolution transformed the way we think about humankind’s place in nature.”
Attachment
“By focusing on the emotional needs of infants, no evolutionist following Darwin’s lead has done more for human well-being than John Bowlby.”
Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape
“I particularly admired the way the author dealt with emerging, often still fragmentary, knowledge about what are some of the most fascinating and least understood of the apes.”
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
“There has been a rash of books on this topic, but Ridley’s remains the best read, and no opening can rival Ridley’s description of the anarchist biologist Prince Kropotkin’s escape from prison.”
