Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, born in 1946 in Texas, is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and from American Philosophical Society.
She is the author of six books, including The Woman Who Never Evolved (1981), Mother Nature (1999) and Mothers and Others: The evolutionary origins of mutual understanding (2009). Combining rigorous scientific research with the literary talent of a novelist, she was honored with numerous awards, including two Howells Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Biological Anthropologythe Panunzio Prize from the University of California, the Staley Prize from the Advanced Research School and the Lifetime Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from the Human Behavior and Evolutionary Society.