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? In Britain we pay a lot of attention to our classical heritage and, for example, the story of Noah’s Ark appears in Greek mythology. But Greek mythology also has stories about where we came from, and these haven’t survived as well as the story of Adam and Eve. So I immediately started off wanting to hate it and call it misogynistic. But guess what? I actually DIDN'T hate it! Bohannon offers a bracing corrective to male-centric evolutionary accounts. She balances scientific rigor with entertaining prose….It’s an illuminating and fresh take on how human evolution unfolded.”

Necesitaba para el reto Popsugar un libro con un palíndromo como título, no en el título sino como título entero así que estaba la cosa muy restringida.

but she has to keep running, because the king wants to put his own personal baby in her because she is the most beautiful and the most dumb. In both ‘Eve’s Diary’ and ‘Adam’s Diary,’ Mark Twain is playing, very delicately and beautifully I think, with that development into fiction. He imagines what the consequences are of treating them as real, and he is trying to provoke both an ironic laughter at these characters and also anger at the kind of God that would expose them to terrible danger without trying to protect them.

Eve, a 16 year old, innocent girl, finds out the brutal truth hidden from everyone. She knows one thing...if she stays she will be doomed to an eternity of pain, sorrow and helplessness. There is not other option but to run away beyond the wall that used to be her safe haven from all the dangers out there. Now, she is alone, scared, hungry. Yet, just when I was beginning to soften, beginning to feel some interest in what would become of the characters and feel an investment in their goal: the ending. Although it is rather in keeping with the way Eve has behaved throughout the entire preceding story, it still seemed illogical and out of place to me. Frankly, it felt like the entire slog through Eve’s story was met with a slap in the face, and a cheap ploy to generate investment in the sequel. Some of the worst things imaginable have started with the best intentions, but that is not the point here.Below is a visual representation of my like or dislike of the main characters, relative to some of the major events. (Within a spoiler due to the naming of plot points): Other than literalisation does Augustine add anything else to the story? Doesn’t he add original sin? Caleb has potential to develop into a BotS in future books… if he drops the ball and chain…. Off a cliff. Given where Milton and his whole culture was coming from, I’m in awe of what he did with her. We can and should grasp the misogyny that shapes this theological vision. Milton buys into it, of course, but he burrows so deeply into these materials that he comes out the other side. Not in a brief for feminism, but in a deep embrace and celebration of Eve’s decision, in the face of the prohibition and the subordination, to be free. I think Milton’s poem is an extraordinary celebration of Eve—the most powerful one that was ever written.