Eve How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years Of Human Evolution Cat Bohannon by Cat Bohannon 63f23f92-8f4c-4600-bb48-58a55f8b153d, 63F23F92-8F4C-4600-BB48-58A55F8B153D instant download after payment.

Eve is a hugely ambitious piece of work, and one that doesn’t pull its punches. It took Bohannon 10 years to research and write – though, to be fair, that was at the same time as earning a PhD, living through a pandemic and having two children. The book sets out to turn our male-centric understanding of the human body, and history, on its head. Bohannon creates female characters out of our earliest common ancestors, and rewrites the opening scene of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, to argue that perhaps it was women who led the development of language, tools and walking on two legs.

Moving between evolutionary biology, physiology, paleoanthropology and genetics, from the Jurassic period to the most cutting-edge scientific research, this page-turning history of the human mammal describes seven main characters: our ancestral “Eves”, as Bohannon calls them. In the beginning, there was “Morgie” (Morganucodon), an egg-laying cross between a weasel and a mouse that was probably the first creature to lactate. More than 200m years later, Morgie’s breastfeeding descendants are so sophisticated that a mother’s body can change the composition of its milk in response to hormonal messages in the baby’s saliva.