Cover art for Eve
Published
Hutchinson, October 2023
ISBN
9781529151244
Format
Softcover, 624 pages
Dimensions
23.4cm × 15.3cm × 3.3cm

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

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An ambitious, groundbreaking and myth-busting history of the evolution of the female body

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023

LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023

A GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH and PROSPECT BEST BOOK OF 2023

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.

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