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But apparently no one, before the author, ever asked what the ramifications might be when a post-liposuction woman becomes pregnant. 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. Picking up where Sapiens left off, Eve will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens has become such a successful and dominant species. It just doesn't work that way—we have certain genetics and if those tiny blueprints give us an advantage, our offspring may proliferate more than those of our neighbours (or not). Her writing ripples with references from literature, film studies, biochemistry, cognitive science and anthropology….

This is a short book trailer that was created to visually introduce some of the heart and intent behind writing EVE. Forced to make the most heartbreaking decisions of their lives, will their choices save them… or be their undoing? Eve reveals the limitations of evolutionary reasoning, exposing that our present doesn’t make sense without thinking about differences of gender as well as of sex. She has written for a variety of academic and nonfiction publications, including the Journal of Medical Ethics, the Medical Law Review, Feminist Legal Studies, Catalyst, Aeon, and Lady Science.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. Being sexed permeates every major feature of our mammalian bodies and the lives we live inside them, for mouse and human alike. The entire reason the United States built the CDC [and located it in Atlanta] is that malaria was rampant throughout the American south. Eve also suggests a new way of thinking about one’s body: as a thing of time, built on a foundation developed over millions of years . Somerset Life A fascinating read for any fans of historical fiction, magical realism, intrigue and mystery, dealing with themes of female power, patriarchal religion and the power of books.

When she’s imprisoned in a home for unwed mothers – locked in the House of Eve with other ‘fallen girls’ – everything she’s worked so hard for starts slipping through her fingers.Fans of Kate Quinn, Lisa Wingate and Kristin Harmel will fall head over heels for this totally gripping and heart-wrenching historical-fiction page-turner.

In a quirky bit of formatting, Bohannon starts each chapter with a glimpse at the “Eve” of a new development — the Eve of lactation is a Morganucodon sweating beads of milk through her fur in an underground den during the Jurassic Period; the Eve of menopause is a grandmother using her experience to serve as an emergency midwife in early Jericho — and I found the format charming. The writing is easy to follow even without a Biology background so if you want to pick this up you should. However behaviours don't fossilize, so it's a largely theoretical argument, as is the chapter on our unusual condition known as menopause. A smart, funny, scientific deep-dive into the power of a woman's body, Eve surprises, educates, and emboldens .Pregnancy is a perilous stress test on a mother’s organs and a struggle between maternal and infant needs, though “you don’t want the foetus to win or lose the war, because either way can kill you”. It's usually not hard to find someone who can remember a difficult thing that happened ten years ago. I learned so much throughout "Eve," yet what is equally as profound is how much I actually enjoyed that learning from beginning to end. It made sense to me: the drainage of sinuses down the throat, resulting in more vocal sac infections, could be selected against.

In the opening scene of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” a pack of male hominids gather, screech and chase one another around Stanley Kubrick’s set. This could be taken as disrespectful of women, except that Bohannon pointedly includes her own relevant experiences in the same kind of banter.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.