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“It’s about the neglect of the importance of female anatomy and physiology in our understanding of mammalian evolution, and much more broadly in society. It walks through the evolution of the female form, showing how massive those changes were in terms of their effect on the biology of our distant ancestors, which then affected all descendant mammals in certain ways. Bohannon then marches through the evolutionary tree, through different ancestors (or their proxies), ultimately to us—explaining how our biology as a species, not just as women, has been shaped by the influence of female biology.” Read more...
“Eve reimagines evolution through the female of the species. It’s told with pace, wit and scholarship, and made me laugh, made me gasp, made me angry…I learnt new things on every page. Why hasn’t this book been written before?” Read more...
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