Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon

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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.

Review

A smart, funny, scientific deep-dive into the power of a woman's body, Eve surprises, educates, and emboldens. Who runs the world? Girls! -- Bonnie Garmus, author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY

An epic combination of science and speculation that places women at the centre of history -- Observer

Such a rare book: scholarly, funny, accessible and very important. A truly original history of humans that explains so much of who we are today -- Chris van Tulleken, author of ULTRA-PROCESSED PEOPLE

A vast and revolutionary history of female evolution . . . [Eve] is a gripping, lyrical tale of female suffering, of remarkable resilience, of the lengths we will go to to survive and to protect our young. It makes being a woman seem truly extraordinary -- Laura Hackett ― Sunday Times

Utterly fascinating. This book should revolutionise our understanding of human life. It is set to become a classic -- George Monbiot, author of REGENESIS

About the Author

Cat Bohannonis a researcher and author with a PhD from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American, Mind, Science Magazine, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Georgia Review, The Story Collider and Poets Against the War. She lives in the US with her partner and two offspring.

Podrobnosti

Autor	Cat Bohannon
Vydavatel	Hutchinson Heinemann 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 2SA, United Kingdom customer.services@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk https://www.penguin.co.uk/company/divisions/cornerstone +44 20 7840 8400
Jazyk	anglicky
Vazba	měkká
Počet stran	624
Formát	15,3 × 23,4 cm
EAN	9781529151244
Rok vydání	2023
Edice	Příroda a přírodní vědy