Eve

Cat Bohannon<b> </b>is a researcher and author with a PhD from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in <i>Scientific American Mind Science Magazine The Best American Nonrequired Reading The Georgia Review The Story Collider</i> and <i>Poets Against the War</i>. She lives in the US with her partner and two offspring. <b>A smart funny scientific deep-dive</b> into the power of a woman's body <i>Eve</i> <b>surprises educates and emboldens</b>. Who runs the world? Girls! <b>Such a rare book: scholarly funny accessible and very important</b>. A truly original history of humans that explains so much of who we are today <b>Utterly fascinating. This book should revolutionise our understanding of human life. It is set to become a classic</b> <i>Eve</i> was immeasurably useful to me in my life-long quest to understand my own body. I highly recommend it to anyone who is on the same journey. Why do women live longer than men? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer's? And what is it with this damn menopause? Ten years in the writing this triumph of rigor and accessibility by a Columbia University researcher is a myth-busting look at how the female body has driven evolution over the past 200 million years continuing to shape all our lives today. In short it's a brilliant book about breasts and blood and fat and vaginas and wombs...how they came to be and how we live with them now no matter how weird or hilarious the truth is. <p><b>Women created life then we erased their story. It’s time for science to tell it.</b><br><br>‘A page-turning whistle-stop tour … <i>Eve </i>recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by placing women at its center . . . Engaging playful erudite discursive and rich with detail’ <i>New York Times</i><br><br>‘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 bestselling author of <i>Ultra-Processed People</i><br><br>‘Revolutionising our understanding of the human body . . . a book that’s packed full of surprising revelations’ <i>Guardian</i><br><br>How did wet nurses drive civilization?<br>Are women always the weaker sex?<br>Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies?<br><br>A sweeping revision of human history <i>Eve</i> is an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. It 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.<br><br>‘An epic combination of science and speculation that places women at the centre of history’ <i>Observer</i><br><br>‘Riveting jaw-dropping hilarious exciting enraging and deeply deeply refreshing’ Lucy Jones author of <i>Matrescence</i><br><br>'A smart funny scientific deep-dive . . . Educates and emboldens' Bonnie Garmus bestselling author of <i>Lessons in Chemistry</i></p>