Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on Human Evolution and Parenthood

The Life Scientific | 7 November 2023 | 0h 30m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify

Interview with Sarah Blaffer Hrdy about her life and work researching evolutionary biology. Discusses her study of infanticide among langur monkeys that overturned assumptions about male monkeys’ murderous motivations; reproductive and parenting strategies across species and the evidence humans are primed by evolution to need a lot of support raising our children.