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Evolution rewritten through the female body's lens

This is the kind of nonfiction that makes you rethink history, biology, and even everyday assumptions all at once. Cat Bohannon takes big scientific ideas and makes them feel lively, surprising, and often delightfully provocative, especially when exposing how much we've missed by centering men in human evolution. If you enjoy smart, myth-busting books that leave you full of fascinating facts to repeat to everyone else, this is a brilliant pick.

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ISBN: 9781529151244
Related Collections: Science, History, Sociology

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An ambitious, ground-breaking and myth-busting history of the evolution of the female body. 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.
 

Evolution rewritten through the female body's lens

This is the kind of nonfiction that makes you rethink history, biology, and even everyday assumptions all at once. Cat Bohannon takes big scientific ideas and makes them feel lively, surprising, and often delightfully provocative, especially when exposing how much we've missed by centering men in human evolution. If you enjoy smart, myth-busting books that leave you full of fascinating facts to repeat to everyone else, this is a brilliant pick.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.