A delegate with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) bit a protester during a scuffle on Saturday outside the AfD's party congress in the western city of Essen. Stefan Hrdy, 67, contended in an ...

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's research centers on how various evolutionary pressures shape primate behavior; her first major project was to explain the tendency of male langurs to commit infanticide. She ...

Primatologist Sarah Hrdy never questioned the idea that hands-on childcare was mainly women’s work — until her first grandchild was born. Then, while watching her son-in-law willingly care for his ...

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, professor emerita of anthropology and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, has been selected to receive the academy’s 2014 Award for Scientific Reviewing, this year ...

The evolutionary significance of warfare is overrated, says sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. What made us human—what transformed our ancestors into a uniquely cooperative, hypersocial species of ...

The time I had set aside to rewrite this review was spent at the clinic with my son, getting him antibiotics and a tetanus shot after a skateboard accident left sizable deposits of his skin on the ...

Years later I learned that Yellow Silver, like many of his kind, was an infant-killer. Patricia Wright, the primatologist who named him and is studying his species, the Milne-Edwards' sifaka, told me ...

If you’re reading this as a mother of a newborn — sleep-deprived, frazzled and ­overwhelmed as the primary carer — you might wish you’d been born a dwarf hamster from Siberia. There, the males look ...