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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution 

byCat Bohannon

Cat Bohannon retells human evolution by placing the female body at the center of the story. Across two hundred million years, she examines milk, wombs, placentas, metabolism, brains, menopause, voice, and other traits that shaped mammals and humans. The book connects evolutionary history with medicine, exposing how research centered on male bodies can misunderstand health and disease. Bohannon combines scientific evidence with bold synthesis, arguing that female physiology is not a variation on a male default but a primary driver of survival, social development, and the biological possibilities inherited by everyone.

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780385350549