"Visionary, vital and packed with personality and meticulous research, this offers a ground-breaking new perspective on human evolution."
Coming in at a mighty 600+ pages, Cat Bohannon’s Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution presents a revolutionary account of the evolution of the female body in mightily potent style. It’s a remarkable feat of research, fresh insights and quick-witted writing.
In the context of the bizarre and sobering fact that most biological scientific research has been based on the male body, Eve sets out to put an imbalanced, inaccurate record straight. Taking on the incredibly ambitious task of tackling 200 million years of human history from a female perspective, Bohannon unpacks the nuances and impact women’s bodies and behaviours have had on pretty much everything, from tool-use to language.
Noting that “while the majority of researchers still effectively ignore the female body, there’s a quiet revolution in the science of womanhood brewing”, in Eve, Bohannon has contributed much to this growing cauldron of wisdom. Consummately convincing, compelling and entertaining, this is an important book.
| Primary Genre | Popular Science |
| Other Genres: | |
| Recommendations: |
How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies?
In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, she covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not only 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 rearranging women's pelvic shape to the surprising similarities between pus and breast milk, will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens have become such a successful and dominant species, from tool use to city building to the development of language.
Eve features in the following genres: Popular Science, Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Star Books, Evolution, Developmental biology, Science: general issues, Mathematics and Science, Recommendations, Life sciences: general issues, Biology, life sciences, Audiobooks of the Month
Eve is available in Paperback, Hardback, Audiobook
Eve was written by Cat Bohannon and published by Cornerstone, Penguin
