Eve
How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Ratings4
Average rating4.5
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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This book turned out to be quite engaging and concise, covering a lot of ground without overwhelming the reader with too much personal storytelling, unlike some other popular science books. I also appreciated the extensive and easy to find bibliography, which is always a plus for me. However I do think the book could have been better organized, and the subchapter titles were a bit vague, making it tricky to find specific parts later on. Also, many of the book's hypotheses are based on assumptions and educated guesses which are important steps in reaching scientifically proven conclusions but this might make some of the ideas seem less solid.
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