Eve

How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

Narrated by: Cat Bohannon

An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting, and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new researcher and writer

Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? 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? And does the female brain really exist?

In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. 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. 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. 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.

Picking up where Sapiens left off, Eve is a landmark book, offering a true paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is and why it matters.


* This audiobook edition contains a downloadable PDF of illustrations that can be viewed on any MAC or PC device.

Highly educational, extremely interesting and witty.

This book is a whirlwind tour of the genetic and cultural evolution of our species evolution viewed through the lenses of challenges presented by multiple Eves - the prototypical mothers on different branches of the evolution tree. It makes a strong case that it is the interaction of mothers with its offspring led to development of language, story telling and tool use.

Thought provoking and amazing!

I loved this! It married two themes near and dear to my heart anthropology and womanism! I found myself excited to get to the end so I could listen AGAIN!

A New Brilliant Understandable Evolutionary Story

Finally! A scientific account of how humans actually developed. And it is completely readable, totally understanding and brightly told. What a relief, a joy to be where my story as a woman is front and center. Brilliant research, memorable, and a view that balances a skewed perception of how The human race developed

Fascinating!

Loved everything about this experience: the new facts I discovered, the author’s sense of humor, her reading voice… more books please!

Great book!

As a gynecologist myself, I so enjoyed learning about the evolution of women! Thank you, Cat Bohannon!