NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST • THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR
SPECIES: a myth-busting eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved offering a
paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is how it came to be and how this
evolution still shapes all our lives today 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 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 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?
These questions are producing some truly exciting science – and in Eve with boundless
curiosity and sharp wit Cat Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific
science behind the development of the female sex: We need a kind of user's manual for the
female mammal. A no-nonsense hard-hitting seriously researched (but readable) account of what
we are. How female bodies evolved how they work what it really means to biologically be a
woman. Something that would rewrite the story of womanhood. This book is that story. We have to
put the female body in the picture. If we don't it's not just feminism that's compromised.
Modern medicine neurobiology paleoanthropology even evolutionary biology all take a hit when
we ignore the fact that half of us have breasts. So it's time we talk about breasts. Breasts
and blood and fat and vaginas and wombs—all of it. How they came to be and how we live with
them now no matter how weird or hilarious the truth is.” Eve is not only a sweeping revision
of human history it’s 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.
