An ambitious and groundbreaking history of the evolution of women, by a brilliant new scientist and writer

Why do women live longer? Why are women less hairy than men? Why do women menstruate? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer's? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? And does the female brain really exist?

In Eve, 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.

A 21st-century update of Our Bodies, Ourselves, Eve offers a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is and why it matters

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Format: Hardcover
Author: Bohannon, Cat
ISBN: 9780385350549
Condition: New
Dimensions: 9.25 x 1.06
Number Of Pages: 624
Publication Year: 2023

Language: English

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

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