How did wet nurses drive civilisation? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies?
Join Cat Bohannon as she delves into the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Her first book,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 industrialised 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.
Cat Bohannon will be ‘In Conversation’ with Sally Howard.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Cat Bohannon is a researcher and author with a PhD from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American, Mind, Science Magazine, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Georgia Review, The Story Collider and Poets Against the War. Her latest book, Eve, was a New York Times bestseller and Guardian Best Book of The Year.
CHAIR BIOGRAPHY
Sally Howard is a global health journalist and feminist academic. She is the author of ‘The Home Stretch: Why the Gender Revolution Stalled at the Kitchen Sink’ and the upcoming Vagina Inc. which explores reproductive technology, feminism and the resurgent Far Right.