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.

Capacious.