Eve: 1

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. This book is a wonderful and deeply thought provoking account of the emergence and development of human biology with especial reference to the female body. I came from millions of years of evolution, from my mother and grandmothers and great-great grandmothers, all the way back to one-celled organisms. This could be taken as disrespectful of women, except that Bohannon pointedly includes her own relevant experiences in the same kind of banter. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution is an evolutionary and social history through the lens of the female body.

For a start, we might want to acknowledge that human brains are something that are made primarily out of women’s bodies: first in their wombs, and then from their breast milk, and then from the quality of interactions mothers have with their children. A great book, gives a lot of information regarding female evolution but in a very engaging and witty style. However behaviours don't fossilize, so it's a largely theoretical argument, as is the chapter on our unusual condition known as menopause.In Eve, author Cat Bohannon tells the story of humanity and how the female body drove evolution (the one with the XY chromosome, though not all women are born with it - gender is part of the brain make-up and doesn't correspond to the same sexual organs in everyone. TheDeorhord by Hana Videen is a fascinating collection of medieval creatures large and small, and a delightful dive into Old English. Eve" is both incredibly satisfying yet also leaves you craving more of Bohannon's curiosity, insight, knowledge, and wit.

Finally the author looks at how medical science has not been testing anything much on women - for good reasons of course, mostly around childbearing - and many objects were not designed with women in mind.I had never encountered the information on throat sacs in primates before, despite taking several primatology courses in university and volunteering as an education docent in natural history for 17 years. She's not even accurately describing either the fully debunked version of group selection ("for the good of the species"), although I think this is what she is trying to suggest, nor the modern multi-level- selection version of group selection that can work under some very specific conditions that humans don't meet.