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The main thing that appeals to me is her underlying premise that the theories about human evolution have largely been theorized by men, who assumed that “human innovation had been driven by groups of men solving man-problems. I was intrigued by the idea that the loss of throat sacs would have been an advantage for a primate that had made the switch to an upright posture.

Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American, Science Magazine, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Georgia Review, The Story Collider, and Poets Against the War.

The book like most biological texts recounts the evolutionary history of cis women, trans women are occasionally acknowledged but nonbinary individuals are not adressed at all. She shares her thougths as he works on one of his masterpieces, The Spirit of The Dead Keeps Watch, a work so important to Gauguin that it haunts his later self-portrait. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, she covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex.

An engrossing insight into the future of birth through the lenses of the most pressing women's health issues of our era . I think this is probably something I’ll dip into every so often as my brain couldn’t take it all in at once. My only niggle is that in the Audible version, the reader repeatedly refers to "polygeny" rather than "polygamy".Existing as a woman in our increasingly atomized world can be isolating in ways that are hard to even identify. Eve] is a gripping, lyrical tale of female suffering, of remarkable resilience, of the lengths we will go to to survive and to protect our young.

From the first chapter, on a small egg-laying burrowing mammal producing liquid through adapted skin patches for her nurslings, we see how the female body arose and how one small successful step drove another one. One popular tale holds that language happened because we became hunters, forming large parties (of men) who needed to shout complex directions at one another across wide savannas. Moments from death, one of them presses something into Beatrice’s hands: a bewitching book whose pages have a dangerous life of their own. Whilst we anticipate that the book will be published on this date, should this date change, we will notify you within a reasonable period of time. The narrative abandons discussion of biology and the "Eves" she originally structured the book around, along with even a rudimentary understanding of how evolution occurs.The heartbreaking and completely unputdownable instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick about the pain and sacrifice of forbidden love, the lengths a mother will go to protect her child, and survival against the toughest of odds. She's not even accurately describing either the fully debunked version of group selection ("for the good of the species"), although I think this is what she is trying to suggest, nor the modern multi-level- selection version of group selection that can work under some very specific conditions that humans don't meet.

Eve opens a refreshing conversation about the equality of men and women within the context of our beginnings, helping us see each other as our Creator does—complete, unique, and not constrained to cultural rules or limitations. Jennifer Saint, author of ARIADNE and ELEKTRA Expertly crafted and beautifully told, this is an intriguing tale of ancient power and mystery with female strength and solidarity at its core. This is the novel that gives Teha'amana a voice; one that travels with the myths and legends of the island, across history and asks to be heard.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. 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. Fascinating…An impressive feat…A book that is at once highly complex…and very readable, while avoiding the behavioral economics pop-science trap of drawing too-neat conclusions…. All of it fascinating and written in a style a layperson can understand, but certainly overwhelming at times - thank goodness for discrete chapters which can be picked up at. 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.