God was really pleased with himself and all he'd accomplished in just 24 hours, so he went back to Heaven and poured himself a beer. The title is a nod to the biblical first woman, but it’s what followed her that motivates Bohannon’s work―the entire span of human evolution and how it has led to women being very different, and in many underappreciated ways, from men.

This long overdue evolutionary account is the pre-history to Caroline Criado Perez’s Invisible Women(2019), showing how wrong it is to think of women as just men with breasts and wombs bolted on.It's an education hidden in a tense, compelling, anger-driven narrative, Beatrice and Diana both knock-out characters. The title is a nod to the biblical first woman, but it’s what followed her that motivates Bohannon’s work—the entire span of human evolution and how it has led to women being very different, and in many underappreciated ways, from men. With "Eve," Bohannon passionately declares a corrective and beautifully brings to life the power and glory of the female body and how it truly has driven 200 million years of human evolution.

Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? There are footnotes present throughout the text which should be read as you see fit when you need extra info on a particular aspect that she touches on otherwise feel free to skip them.

An illustration from Eve: ‘The more we know about women, from their ovaries to their aortas, the more we know about everybody. 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. These particular Edens are often where we speciated: when our bodies evolved in ways that made us too different from others to be able to breed with them anymore. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution is an evolutionary and social history through the lens of the female body. Among species such as mallards where rape is common, the male duck’s “corkscrew” penis forces entry while the female’s “long, winding vagina will close off, trapping unwanted sperm in a side tunnel”.

Cat Bohannon] is revolutionising our understanding of the human body with her female-centric history of the species. Every few pages there would be some fact I didn’t know or an idea that was new to me, and I would ask my wife if she knew, and she’d say, “What? AllThatSheCarried by Tiya Miles is an eye-opening social history of love and resilience, and an insightful testament to the people who are left out of the archives.Sure, it's a nice bonus to have wise elders to help with memories of previous solutions to thorny problems, but it's almost certainly an evolutionary accident. I was intrigued when |I first saw this book and I was so glad I saw it as it was an amazing book to read. She attributes her love of all things dark and dystopian to a childhood watching Tales of the Unexpected and black-and-white Edgar Allen Poe double bills. Why older women are useful, why the wet nurse was responsible for explosive population growth in early farming towns. Frankly, I’m writing this while I’m still on page 387, where Cat Bohannon talks about why sex feels good.