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After sulking for a day over his lost maid companion, he thought of something to make him feel better. The main thing that appeals to me is her underlying premise that the theories about human evolution have largely been theorized by men, who assumed that “human innovation had been driven by groups of men solving man-problems. Eve erases any lingering misconception about the centrality of women, giving us a detailed look at women’s biology…. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. I think this is probably something I’ll dip into every so often as my brain couldn’t take it all in at once.

Eve] is a gripping, lyrical tale of female suffering, of remarkable resilience, of the lengths we will go to to survive and to protect our young. It is not o Fascinating…An impressive feat…A book that is at once highly complex…and very readable, while avoiding the behavioral economics pop-science trap of drawing too-neat conclusions…. 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. She does a reasonably good job of distinguishing sex and gender, although I don't think she gave a full description of the myriad ways in which "biological sex" reflects congruence among the distributions of many traits.She is bold when speaking against abortion restrictions, the gender wage gap, sex essentialism…and chastity laws. Our bipedal legs, our tool use, our fatty brains and chatty mouths and menopausal grandmothers — all of these traits that make us “human” came about at different times in our evolutionary past. Understanding the nature of humanity REQUIRES (not just wants) a much deeper understanding of the role of women. It packed one powerful punch… I still don’t have the exact words to describe how it made me feel… So many emotions… It will hit your heart hard… Will have your heart breaking time and again. So, God said, Let there be firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters!

Bohannon seemingly understands that to really get her points across she needs to find a way to immerse us in this information without leaving us gasping for our literary breaths. Weeks later I'm still thinking about the compelling and complex treatments of themes of knowledge, community, agency and kinship. It truly is an account of the evolution of the female body which succinctly explains why we have the featured that we do and how they have helped the female of the species survive for thousand of years. I'm excited to announce that EVE's audiobook is available, and that the reader is Roger Mueller (the voice on both The Shack and Cross Roads audiobooks).This emboldens her to confront uncomfortable stereotypes, like whether women’s brains have evolved to be inferior to men’s (in fact, the sexes have strikingly similar cerebral equipment). I am on page 80 something and overall, the book is great, good writing for an academic, and she makes a fantastic effort to make the work she is covering accessible to laypeople. I don't know what I thought I was getting when I picked up this huge book, but Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution easily exceeded every single one of my expectations. In the dawn of the 1950s, Ruby and Eleanor are complete strangers – until their paths unexpectedly collide.

Bohannon has different protagonists in mind, and she whips through the millennia sketching early “Eves” who may have gotten us where we are now, from a lactating “weird little weasel-beast” of dinosaur times to Ardipithecus ramidus, the first known ape to walk upright. Moments from death, one of them presses something into Beatrice's hands: a bewitching book whose pages have a dangerous life of their own. And to each Eve, her particular Eden: We have the breasts we do because mammals evolved to make milk.I have a background in both animal behavior modification (I was a dolphin trainer) and I'm a trained linguist with a degree in cognitive linguistics.