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Over hundreds of thousands of years, women have developed more sensitive noses (particularly around ovulation and pregnancy), finer hearing at high frequencies, extended colour vision, and longer life expectancy than men by an impressive half decade. In the introduction, Cat Bohannon came across as quite angry with Ridley Scott until I read the accompanying footnote. A jaunty, digressive, and often whimsical tale examining the origins of some defining features of womanhood .

That the loss of vocal sacs would be a step towards the possible development of spoken language is a tempting new idea for me. This audiobook edition contains a downloadable PDF of illustrations that can be viewed on any MAC or PC device. As Teha'amana tells her story, other voices of the island rise: Hina goddess of the moon, a lizard watching from the eaves, Gauguin's mask of Teha'amana carved from one of the trees.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 . Very detailed and interesting book looking at female body evolution has effected human evolution and has opened my eyes on certain subjects, the author tries to make the book simple in parts so the reader doesn't need a biological or medical knowledge to fully understand. Split into chapters which deal with a different part of the female body, this is a fascinating journey through evolution and should be read by everyone especially, dare I say it? These outcomes are a tangle of sex (influenced by chromosomes, physiology and hormones) and gender (how we identify, behave in our environment and interact with one another). There’s a huge amount of every “ology” you can think of – except maybe Scientology - with diagrams and drawings along the way.

Sexual assault is abhorrent, and an argument rooted in ideas of “naturalness” should never trump our moral code. And to protect her parents from severe penalties, she must secretly investigate before anyone else finds out. If you like non-fiction that focuses on evolution, physiology, biology, anthropology and lots of other aspects then this is one for you. Why do women live long after they are no longer reproduce and live longer and more healthfully than men? Apparently this difference evolved as females needed to be able to hear their babies over the sounds in the canopy when they moved about.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. It’s not that topflight scientists still think female bodies were made when God pulled a rib from Adam’s side, but the assumption that being sexed is simply a matter of sex organs — that somehow being female is just a minor tweak on a Platonic form — is a bit like that old Bible story. 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. It's informative yet it's far beyond informative because it builds a vision of womanhood that is truly awe-inspiring.

A cataclysmic climate emergency has spawned a one-child policy in the UK, ruthlessly enforced by a totalitarian regime. 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). And you want them to be well cared for throughout their reproductive lives, with readily available education about nutrition and healthy habits and newborn caretaking. Photograph: Hazel Lee Santino View image in fullscreen An illustration from Eve: ‘The more we know about women, from their ovaries to their aortas, the more we know about everybody. As she stumbles across a series of heinous crimes perpetrated by the people she trusted most, she makes a catastrophic discovery that could bring down the government … and tear her family apart.D. from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition) expands on this idea of considering the needs of the female of our species when looking for the catalysts behind the great shifts in our development — from bipedal locomotion to language and tool use — and in a narrative that starts with the first tiny mammal that coexisted with the dinosaurs and traces that story up to today’s reality, Bohannon has assembled a fascinating, comprehensive, and entertaining study of what is usually left out of the story of “us” — all while making a forceful case for why focussing on the history of the female body matters for the future of all of humanity. I came back to add that the more I reflect on this book, the more frustrated I become that this passed review, and the more committed I am to providing excellent scientific education to my students because this is just bad science. Bohannon’s findings, including everything from the way C-sections in the industrialized world are rearranging women’s pelvic shape to the surprising similarities between pus and breast milk, will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens have become such a successful and dominant species, from tool use to city building to the development of language.

Washington, DC, 1948: Eleanor arrives in the city with ambition, hope and a past she’s trying her hardest to run from. Mammals are defined by motherhood: every species using sexual reproduction has male and female, but mammalian mothers feed their young, protect and train them, and develop strong, personal bonds of love. 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”. That question animates the high-velocity, high-impact “Eve,” part owner’s manual for the female body “from tits to toes”; part sweeping saga of mammalian history; and part clapback against the tendency of much evolutionary thought to place men, and their furry mancestors, at the center of the action.Eve is a fantastic read for anyone interested in women's history - and by that I mean prehistory, how women evolved. Discover your next non-fiction read and brilliant book gifts in the Profile newsletter, and find books to help you live well with Souvenir Press. Her milk will actually change to include an agent to fight a specific pathogen or to include hormones to soothe a stressed baby.