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Born in Dallas, Texas
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She chose philosophy as her major and took creative writing courses.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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Sarah met Daniel at Harvard
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Her first book
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Sarah was 31 when Kartinka was born
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Hrdy's PhD thesis tested the hypothesis that overcrowding causes infanticide in langur colonies.
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Her second book
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First film
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Second film
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Third book
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Sasha was born when Sarah was 37, she had her a week before she was scheduled to present a paper at Cornell University
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Third Film
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Fourth Book
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Born when Sarah Hrdy was 41
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Fourth film
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Fifth film
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Sixth film
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Fifth Book
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Sixth book
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Seventh film
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Seventh book
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Eight book
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Ninth book
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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"
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