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Eve
- How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
- Narrated by: Cat Bohannon
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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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.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-12-2023
Fresh revealing perspective
As a man, Having read & listened to so many books on Our Evolution it was fantastic to hear this fresh perspective, freed from all the old outdated inaccurate male perspectives, evolution revealed the the most logical nuanced female gaze. So insightful
A must for everyone to understand what’s made us ourselves
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- Anonymous User
- 30-04-2024
Loved it
Thoroughly interesting and such a refreshing look at how we probably came to be who we are.
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- Ben Gawne
- 16-04-2024
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This book clearly isnt meant for a crusty white male who knows a bit about evolution. I have lots of issues with this book, but will constrain myself to providing a comentary on the publishers claims.
1. "Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades". Such arrogance to declare that someone, anyone, knows what questions should be addressed. This air of certainty pervades the book and should immediately raise suspicion.
2. "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". The book is not a sweeping revision of anything, it is a repackaging of information that is relatively well known. The section that makes the claim that evolutionary biology has focused on the male body for too long is a spurious account of gender bias in scientific disciplines where there are incentives to utilise male subjects. Evolutionary biologists dont have the luxury of selecting the sex of their subjects, they just study what they dig up.
3. "Bohannon's findings...will completely change what you think you know about evolution." That kind of depends on where you start, perhaps if you believe the Earth is flat and Genesis is accurate. I am not at all confident that your new understanding will be a robust understanding of evolution as the book has chosen to start with a number of modern day female characteristics and describe some of their evolutionary changes and their potential causes or consequences.
The major issue is that there are three reasons we behave in particular ways: nature, culture and nurture. This complex interaction seems to be an inconvience to the author who attributes observations to evolution without testing ideas against the competing hypotheses. Evolution is NOT driven by the female body. Evolution is driven by variations among individuals who leave differing numbers of offspring to carry on the species. The signficance of these variations can only be assessed within the context of the environmental conditions that the individual needs to deal with. On many occasions, the author observes that we are social. It is therefore important that the social context within which variations are tested and the broader environment are considered. Too often, the book treats the topic in isolation or ignorance of the context, reducing the explanation to a just so story.
I am sure there are readers who will enjoy this book and may find it informative. Perhaps it is people who believe humans are special and that telling stories and love are two of the things that set us apart. For my part I will continue to be the self interested, fitness maximising curmudgeon that I have evolved into.
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