# Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

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How Climate Crafted Humanity (Or Did It?) ~ Jessica Thompson

On Humans is back from the break! To mark the summer heat, here is a two-part series on how climate has shaped the human story. In next week's episodes, we will explore the role of water and weather in the origins of European colonialism. But today, we start by crawling deeper into the past: to th…

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on ‘Rethinking our Starting Assumptions’

“I love your field. It is making such an important point about scientists who don't understand the extent to which our own upbringing impacts our starting assumptions. It's those starting assumptions that get you in trouble.”   In today’s episode Samara Greenwood returns to interview the pioneering…

The Evolutionary Story of Kinship with Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear the full conversation, visit keelysemler.substack.com. This week, I’m honored to share a conversation I had with Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, an evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist whose work has powerfully shifted the way we understand what it mea…

Go To on Whether We're Still Human if Robots Raise our Babies

Babies attach to whoever responds to them—mother, father, grandmother, or machine. Kelly shares anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's TED talk about what makes humans fundamentally different from other apes: we're "other-regarding," wired to care about what others think and feel. Through 6 million ye…

Ep. 40: Darby Saxbe on Fatherhood, Alloparenting, and What Really Drives Birth Rates

Lura Forcum and Lauren Hall host an episode of We Made This Political featuring clinical psychologist and USC professor Darby Saxbe, whose research focuses on the transition to parenthood, fathers’ roles, and how family relationships shape mental and physical health. The conversation covers allopar…

How do I find rhythm in a life that keeps changing? (a Q&A podcast)

Our world's changing quickly, shimmering around the edges as it gallops into entirely new terrain. In celebration of this lunar new year—and the Year of the Firehorse—I decided to open the mail bag for this week’s podcast and respond to your questions… Questions that felt alive, honest, and right o…

The DADventure: Wild Animal Dads from Owl Monkeys to Seahorses

What does it really mean to be a dad? In the animal world, fathers have long been painted as aggressive or absent. At best providers and protectors, but certainly not caregivers. And yet for every tale of a lion or chimp dad eating its own young (yikes!), there’s another creature who tells a sweete…

Bonus: Wild Animal Dads from Terrestrials

In honor of Father's Day, here is a family friendly bonus episode from our kids' podcast Terrestrials.  What does it really mean to be a dad? In the animal world, fathers have long been painted as aggressive or absent. At best providers and protectors, but certainly not caregivers. And yet for eve…

Disability, dependency, and care - with Eva Feder Kittay

How can we ensure that the drive for gender equality acknowledges relationships of dependency and care? What kinds of social policies are needed to ensure that caregivers are properly supported and cared for? What can the experiences of people with disabilities teach us about what constitutes a 'go…

Ep. 12 - The Grandmother Hypothesis (with Alison Gopnik)

Most species don't have grandparents. Humans do. Why? In this final episode of season one, developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik explores a strange feature of human evolution, and what it reveals about childhood, caregiving, and why raising children was never meant to be a job for parents alone.…