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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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Author:
Cat Bohannon
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
October 3, 2023
Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not just a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon's findings, including everything from the way C-sections in the industrialized world are rejiggering women's pelvic shape to the surprising similarities between pus and breast milk, will completely change what you think you know about evolution . . . and women.
What The Reviewers Say
High-velocity, high impact.
Bohannon manages to navigate this well, weaving millions of years of evolutionary science with ultra-contemporary language and politics.
Bohannon calls on her astounding disciplinary range to tell this epic tale. Her writing ripples with references from literature, film studies, biochemistry, cognitive science and anthropology. No wonder it took her 10 years to finish. The footnotes alone, which are particularly learned, irreverent and funny, are a masterpiece.
Ambitious.
