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But if a woman does have one, it’s more likely to burst, she’s less likely to get effective treatment and more likely to die. Raises troubling issues about the balance between saving the planet and our individual human rights … brilliant! But Bohannon’s main thesis seems to be that, despite nearly dying off a couple of times, our species has been able to thrive and populate the entire planet primarily because we mastered gynecology; learning to have the right number of babies, raised at the right time, according to the resources of their mothers’ community. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Eve is stuffed with interesting facts — I did not know that openings in a breastfeeding woman’s areola “uptakes” her baby’s saliva to scan for infection and send specific immunity supports, or that a stress hormone is released in women when they hear a baby crying (while the top frequencies of a crying baby are cut off in the male hearing range) or that reducing the number of girls married before they are eighteen by even 10 percent can reduce a country’s maternal mortality by 70 percent — supported by pages of footnotes and citations.

Eve" is both incredibly satisfying yet also leaves you craving more of Bohannon's curiosity, insight, knowledge, and wit. This profound misunderstanding of how natural selection works then structures the second half of the book, which comprises the evolutionary psychology chapters.

If not, they could base them on this book, as it is vital knowledge for any human to understand who we are, what we are capable of, and why. A cataclysmic climate emergency has spawned a one-child policy in the UK, ruthlessly enforced by a totalitarian regime. 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. 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. 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.

Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Well, it turns out that men's ears don't hear higher frequencies as well as women's and that their hearing loss of the higher frequencies (the range where most women speak) begins at age 25. I was already pretty hooked before I got to the first chapter after reading the introduction gave some great insight into the book and what was to potentially follow. The entire reason the United States built the CDC [and located it in Atlanta] is that malaria was rampant throughout the American south.Moments from death, one of them presses something into Beatrice's hands: a bewitching book whose pages have a dangerous life of their own. Eve opens a refreshing conversation about the equality of men and women within the context of our beginnings, helping us see each other as our Creator does—complete, unique, and not constrained to cultural rules or limitations. Washington, DC, 1948: Eleanor arrives in the city with ambition, hope and a past she’s trying her hardest to run from. The title is a nod to the biblical first woman, but it’s what followed her that motivates Bohannon’s work—the entire span of human evolution and how it has led to women being very different, and in many underappreciated ways, from men. This long overdue evolutionary account is the pre-history to Caroline Criado Perez’s Invisible Women(2019), showing how wrong it is to think of women as just men with breasts and wombs bolted on.

Eve is a fantastic read for anyone interested in women's history - and by that I mean prehistory, how women evolved. These questions are producing some truly exciting science – and in Eve, with boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Cat Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex: “We need a kind of user's manual for the female mammal. And why, seriously why, do women have to sweat through our sheets every night when we hit menopause? There’s also a grungy lushness to her prose that celebrates saliva, cervical and laryngeal mucus, buttocks… and fat. In the past I have shrugged away my irritation and told him to clean the wax out of his ears and suggested a good ENT.A smart, funny, scientific deep-dive into the power of a woman's body, Eve surprises, educates, and emboldens. And you want them to be well cared for throughout their reproductive lives, with readily available education about nutrition and healthy habits and newborn caretaking.

But Bohannon uses everything from the brain’s patterns of learning to mothers’ ability to speak in infant-friendly tones to make the case that language was invented between baby and caretaker. And to each Eve, her particular Eden: We have the breasts we do because mammals evolved to make milk. So, ultimately, this isn’t simply an objective overview of the science behind “how the female body drove evolution”. In this world of questionable facts, stats and news, she believes storytelling is more important than ever to engage people in real life issues.Bohannon offers a refreshing and lively corrective to a story that has focused mainly on male evolution. Assisting other women in labour was revolutionary, given the intense trust and collaboration that was required.