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Sarah Hrdy

Sarah Hrdy is professor emerita at the University of California-Davis. A former Guggenheim fellow, she has been elected to the California Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of four books, including The Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction; The Woman that Never Evolved, selected by the New York Times as one of the Notable Books of the Year; and Mother Nature: A history of mothers, infants and natural selection, which won the Howells Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Biological Anthropology and was chosen by both Publisher’s Weekly and Library Journal as one of the “Best Books of 1999”. She is also co-editor of Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives and, together with Sue Carter and others, of Attachment and Bonding: A new Synthesis (2005). Her book Mothers and Others: the Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding, dealing with the psychological implications of humankind’s long legacy of shared care of infants, will be published early in 2009.

April 30, 2009, 6-7:30 p.m., Coor Hall, 170
Lecture: Darwin and the Ascent of Man: Why humans are such hypersocial apes?
Book Signing: Mothers and Others: the Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding