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Sarah Blaffer Hrdy


Sarah Hrdy (née Blaffer; born July 11, 1946) is an American anthropologist and primatologist who has made several major contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology. She has been selected as one of the 21 “Leaders in Animal Behavior.”

Sarah Blaffer was born on July 11, 1946, in Dallas, Texas. She was a granddaughter of Robert Lee Blaffer, a co-founder of Humble Oil. She was raised in Houston and attended St. John's School there. Her mother advocated Sarah's craving for higher education and to have a career; at that time, many did not feel the same.

At age 18, Sarah attended her mother's alma mater, Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She chose philosophy as her major, and she took creative writing courses. In one of her writing classes, she wrote a novel about Mayan culture. This decision led to Hrdy researching folklore of the Maya. In the end, she found the research more stimulating than the creation of the novel. She loved it so much, she eventually transferred to Radcliffe College and majored in anthropology.

She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1969 with a BA. (Her undergraduate thesis became the basis for The Black Man of Zincantan, published in 1972.)

Although she loved what she was doing, she longed to make a bigger impact on the world. To fulfill her dream, she decided to make films that would help people living in developing countries become educated on various health subjects. She took film-making courses at Stanford but found herself disappointed with the classes.


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