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Born
Born in Dallas, Texas -
Goes to Wellesley College in Massachusetts
She chose philosophy as her major and took creative writing courses. -
Transferred to Radcliffe College
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. -
Graduated College
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.) -
Inspired by Hanuman Langurs, she entered Harvard to obtain a PhD
She got inspiration from one class studying the problems of overpopulation among black-faced Indian monkeys called langurs. In this class, she was taught that when numbers got too high within the troop, the male langurs would kill the babies in their group. Inspired again by new information, Hrdy entered Harvard in 1970 to obtain a PhD. Her thesis was based on the inspiration from the Stanford class and was about langur research. -
Gets married to Daniel Hrdy in Kathmandu
Sarah met Daniel at Harvard -
Book published - The Black-man of Zinacantan: A Central American Legend
Her first book -
First Daughter born, Katrinka
Sarah was 31 when Kartinka was born -
Awarded her PhD for her research on Hanuman Langurs
Hrdy's PhD thesis tested the hypothesis that overcrowding causes infanticide in langur colonies. -
Book published - The Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction.
Her second book -
Film - Stolen copulations; Play and Kidnapped
First film -
Film - Hanuman langur: Monkey of India
Second film -
Book published - The Woman that Never Evolved.
Third book -
Award - NYT Notable Books of 1981, The Woman That Never Evolved
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Second daughter born, Sasha
Sasha was born when Sarah was 37, she had her a week before she was scheduled to present a paper at Cornell University -
Film - Treatment for film on reproductive strategies of female primates
Third Film -
Book published - Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives.
Fourth Book -
Award - Elected, California Academy of Sciences
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Third child born, a son, Niko
Born when Sarah Hrdy was 41 -
Film - Monkeys of Abu
Fourth film -
Award - Guggenheim Fellow
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Award - Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal
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Film - Nature Advisory Board
Fifth film -
Film - Consultant for "Human Nature"
Sixth film -
Award - Elected, National Academy of Sciences
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Award - Elected, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Book published - Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants and Natural Selection.
Fifth Book -
Award - Publisher's Weekly, "Best Books of 1999", Mother Nature
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Award - Library Journal, "Best Books of 1999", Mother Nature
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Book published - The Past, Present, and Future of the Human Family.
Sixth book -
Film - Advisor for PBS series Evolution.
Seventh film -
Award - Howells Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Biological Anthropology, Mother Nature
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Award - University of California Panunzio award
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Book published - Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis.
Seventh book -
Award - Centennial Medal, Harvard GSAS
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Book published - Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding.
Eight book -
Book published - Myths, monkeys and motherhood: An intellectual autobiography.
Ninth book -
Award - Elected American Philosophical Society
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Award - Staley Prize from School of Advanced Research for Mothers and Others
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Award - Howells Prize for Mothers and Others
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Award - NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing
For "insightful and visionary synthesis of a broad range of data and concepts from 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" -
Award - Lifetime Career Award for Distinguished Contribution to Science, from Evolutionary and Human Behavior Society