Eve

The real origin of our species: "A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, Eve recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by placing women at its center....The book is engaging, playful, erudite, discursive and rich with detail." —Sarah Lyall, The New York Times

BOOK SUMMARY

How did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? • Why do women live longer than men? • 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? • Is sexism useful for evolution? • And why, seriously why, do women have to sweat through our sheets every night when we hit menopause?

Eve is not only a sweeping revision of human history, it’s also an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. 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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

CAT BOHANNON is a researcher and author with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American, Mind, Science Magazine, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Georgia Review, The Story Collider, and Poets Against the War. She lives with her family in Seattle.

PRAISE

"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....Existing as a woman in our increasingly atomized world can be isolating in ways that are hard to even identify. Beyond making me gasp aloud in wonder, Bohannon’s book was an unexpected antidote, delivering a profound sense of kinship with every other woman who’s ever existed (plus those various Eve ancestors)."—Nora Biette-Timmons, Jezebel

"A smart, funny, scientific deep-dive into the power of a woman's body, Eve surprises, educates, and emboldens."—Bonnie Garmus, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Lessons in Chemistry

"Eve erases any lingering misconception about the centrality of women, giving us a detailed look at women's biology....The book brims with unexpected insights, described with a lovely mixture of scientific veracity and novelistic flair." —David P. Barash, Wall Street Journal

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Trade Paperback
624 Pages
Science / Life Sciences
8 in H | 5.2 in W | 1.3 in T | 1 lb