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.
3 有用 ZZ 2024-04-12 04:37:48 美国
作者一定是做了大量仔細的研究才能書寫出這麽一本證據確鑿的書籍。推薦每個女性去看,推薦每個人都去看,讓我更好地瞭解自身,這是第一步,然後再去瞭解他人。書寫也非常流暢,雖然有很多專業用語,但是并不覺得晦澀難讀。
1 有用 califlo 2023-10-24 10:57:03 美国
从evolution的角度看female body,包括了一些站得住脚和站不住脚的理论/猜想,个人觉得挺有意思的,也很能appreciate书中提及的社会问题。语言比想象中更通俗易懂。
1 有用 安波尔 2024-08-09 22:52:05 上海
个人不太喜欢最后两章,稍显武断,情绪多于逻辑。但前面七章非常精彩,展现了很多少有人关注的切面。女性的身体不是男性的变体,而是两亿年进化的结果,是母体和胎儿之间的恒久战场,是任何种族赖以持续的基石。She is a nurser, a protector, a speaker, a problem solver, and most importantly, a fighter. I’m proud ... 个人不太喜欢最后两章,稍显武断,情绪多于逻辑。但前面七章非常精彩,展现了很多少有人关注的切面。女性的身体不是男性的变体,而是两亿年进化的结果,是母体和胎儿之间的恒久战场,是任何种族赖以持续的基石。She is a nurser, a protector, a speaker, a problem solver, and most importantly, a fighter. I’m proud to be her. (展开)
2 有用 连帽起重机 2024-07-13 22:04:46 英国
头两章跨物种对比的部分很不错(但外网有很多产科大夫说她描述的人类情况并不符合临床观察),后面叙述越来越不严谨,很多一厢情愿的脑补+试图自圆其说解释,连我这种生物外行都能发现的事实错误一抓一把(怎么可以说foramen magnum在下巴上。。)最后一章根本看不下去。虽然爱看反🚹叙事,但是实在没必要为了吹顺直异性恋女的把科学事实都架空了。
0 有用 魏知超 2025-12-10 07:14:28 浙江
前半部分比较硬核,后半很多只是臆想。