Editing Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (section)

==Biography==

===Early life===
Sarah Blaffer was born on July 11, 1946, in [[Dallas]], Texas.<ref name="Yount">{{cite book |last1=Yount |first1=Lisa |title=A to Z of women in science and math |date=2008 |publisher=Facts On File, Inc.|location=New York |isbn=978-0816066957 |pages=133–135 |edition=Rev. |url=https://www.mobt3ath.com/uplode/book/book-24728.pdf |access-date=October 24, 2018}}</ref> She was a granddaughter of [[Sarah Campbell Blaffer]] and Robert Lee Blaffer, a co-founder of [[Humble Oil]].<ref name="Obituary">{{cite news |title=JANE BLAFFER OWEN Obituary |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/houstonchronicle/obituary.aspx?n=jane-blaffer-owen&pid=143765967 |access-date=November 13, 2018 |work=Houston Chronicle |date=July 4, 2010}}</ref> She was raised in [[Houston]]<ref name="Yount"/> and attended [[St. John's School (Texas)|St. John's School]] before enrolling in [[St. Timothy's School]] in Stevenson, Maryland, graduating in 1964.<ref name="Houston">{{cite web|url=http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/west_university/news/st-john-s-legacies-have-left-their-mark-on-school/article_e8e35f95-77be-5d72-938b-16426cb88327.html?mode=jqm |title=St. John's legacies have left their mark on school's history   |publisher=Houston Chron |date=March 20, 2007 }}</ref>

===Education===
At age 18, Blaffer enrolled in her mother's [[alma mater]], [[Wellesley College]] in [[Massachusetts]].<ref name="Dowling"/> At the end of her sophomore year, she transferred to [[Radcliffe College]], then the women's part of Harvard, in order to study under the great Mayanist Evon Vogt.<ref name="Yount"/>

Majoring in [[anthropology]] there her undergraduate honors thesis was on the Maya demon H'ik'al published as her first book, ''The Black-man of Zinacantan'', published in 1972.<ref name="Yount"/><ref name="Oakes"/>
She was a member of [[Phi Beta Kappa]], and graduated ''[[summa cum laude]]'' from Radcliffe in 1969 with a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]].<ref name="Dowling"/><ref name="Isbell"/>

Interested in making public health films for people in developing countries, Hrdy took film-making courses at [[Stanford]], but was disappointed with them. Instead she was inspired by a Stanford lecture of Paul Ehrlich's about overpopulation. His lecture reminded her of something a Harvard professor, [[Irven DeVore]], had said about a species of Indian monkey called [[langurs]] among whom males, supposedly because they were crowded, killed infants.<ref name="Yount"/><ref name="Sridhar">{{cite web |last1=Sridhar |first1=Hari |title=Revisiting Hrdy 1974|date=January 2, 2018 |url=https://reflectionsonpaperspast.wordpress.com/2018/01/02/revisiting-hrdy-1974/ |website=Reflections on Papers Past |access-date=February 5, 2019}}</ref>

Hrdy changed course in mid-year and entered [[Harvard]] as a graduate student in 1970 to study primate behavior so she could go to India and find out why these male Hanuman langurs were killing infants. She worked under the supervision of anthropology professor Irven DeVore and evolutionary biologist [[Robert L. Trivers]] and [[E. O. Wilson]] earning a Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1975.<ref name="Sridhar"/>

===Family===
Sarah Blaffer met Daniel Hrdy at Harvard. He accompanied her on early visits to Mount Abu,<ref name="Sridhar"/> and they married in 1972<ref name="Yount"/> in [[Kathmandu]].<ref name="Dowling"/> They have three children:<ref name="Yount"/> Katrinka (born 1977); Sasha (born 1982), a week before Hrdy was scheduled to present a paper at [[Cornell University]]; and Niko (born 1986).<ref name="Dowling"/> Sarah Blaffer Hrdy now lives with her husband in northern [[California]], where they are engaged in walnut farming and habitat restoration at Citrona Farms.<ref>{{cite web |first=Sarah|last= Blaffer Hrdy |url=http://www.citrona.com |title=Home|website=Citrona Farms}}</ref>