Eve

How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

De: Cat Bohannon

Narrado por: Cat Bohannon

An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting, and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new researcher and writer

Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? 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, 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.

Picking up where Sapiens left off, Eve is a landmark book, offering a true paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is and why it matters.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Cat Bohannon (P)2023 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“For over a century and a half since Darwin, we have talked about the origin of man. But what about women? Marshaling considerable wit, scholarship, and cutting edge science Cat Bohannon traces the history and importance of female biology and, in the process, gives us a refreshing new view on the origin of humanity.”—Neil Shubin, University of Chicago biologist and author of Your Inner Fish

“Eve 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.” —Hope Jahren, best-selling author of Lab Girl and Story of More

“This book is almost fantastically interesting. Every few pages there would be some fact I didn't know or an idea that was new to me, and I would ask my wife if she knew, and she’d say, “What? You’re kidding! No!” and we'd end up talking for half an hour, and it would be midnight, and I'd only read 8 pages. So this book took a LONG time to read, but for the best possible reasons. Frankly, I’m writing this while I’m still on page 387, where Cat Bohannon talks about why sex feels good. I definitely plan to finish.” —Charles Mann, best-selling author of 1491

Highly educational, extremely interesting and witty.

This book is a whirlwind tour of the genetic and cultural evolution of our species evolution viewed through the lenses of challenges presented by multiple Eves - the prototypical mothers on different branches of the evolution tree. It makes a strong case that it is the interaction of mothers with its offspring led to development of language, story telling and tool use.

Thought provoking and amazing!

I loved this! It married two themes near and dear to my heart anthropology and womanism! I found myself excited to get to the end so I could listen AGAIN!

A New Brilliant Understandable Evolutionary Story

Finally! A scientific account of how humans actually developed. And it is completely readable, totally understanding and brightly told. What a relief, a joy to be where my story as a woman is front and center. Brilliant research, memorable, and a view that balances a skewed perception of how The human race developed

Fascinating!

Loved everything about this experience: the new facts I discovered, the author’s sense of humor, her reading voice… more books please!

Great book!

As a gynecologist myself, I so enjoyed learning about the evolution of women! Thank you, Cat Bohannon!

I’ve read a lot of science books, yet this one surprised me so many times.

This book is stuffed full of amazing information about mothers and children. I plan to listen to it again so I can absorb the information more completely. It’s highly entertaining as well as thought provoking and surprising.

Thought Provoking

Dr Bohannon lays out an alternative stoty on the sexes in human evolution. At times this story reaches past what we have evidence for but it is a story worth exploring nontheless. Eve is a gem in the pop-anthropology genre.

Must read!

Filled with fascinating facts about the female body and how it functions! Loved the writing style, was ready to read another book by Cat after. Couldn’t get enough

Fascinating

Well researched, well communicated, and thoughtfully applied to modern political and social situations. A worthwhile read.

Things most people wouldn’t think of is answered in here

I love the author sense of humor, I loved the way that she read her research data and she had a lot of it