Lively, comprehensive…[and] provocative….Bohannon’s book is a joy to read: It’s replete with beautiful language…and humor….It’s also an informative, intriguing…call to view our human story through the evolution of women and the essential contributions that the female body has made toward the genesis of humanity.”

And don't get me wrong. The premise of this book is quite appalling. I wouldn't call myself a feminist by definition, but the idea of women being a baby-factory is disgusting, demeaning, degrading and morally wrong. So don't think my defense of Eve's character, etc is stemming from some hyper-traditional beliefs. It's not. A prewar invasion-scare spy thriller by a writer later shot for his part in the Irish republican rising.

A very interesting take on myth, mythology and the power of women when they work together for the greater good’⭐⭐⭐⭐ The experiences of an unattractive slum doctor during the Great War: a masterpiece of linguistic innovation. The real origin of our species: a myth-busting, eye-openinglandmarkaccount 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 You wouldn’t know, if you didn’t read Hebrew, that the tree is described as an object that arouses intense desire” 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?

TEACHER: Halt! Oh, Eve, I see you've decided to escape. I'll help you, but there's no time to get your best friend.

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Es una historia sencilla que no nos presenta nada novedoso pero que es entretenida. Muy llenita de clichés distópicos, muy juvenil y que por supuesto deja un final muy abierto para la continuación de la saga. Yes. She’s told that constantly by Raphael, by Adam. Everyone agrees. She agrees, too, and she’s trying to figure out what to do as a result. Milton depicts her as deeply thoughtful.

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.”In Britain we pay a lot of attention to our classical heritage and, for example, the story of Noah’s Ark appears in Greek mythology. But Greek mythology also has stories about where we came from, and these haven’t survived as well as the story of Adam and Eve. Yet, just when I was beginning to soften, beginning to feel some interest in what would become of the characters and feel an investment in their goal: the ending. Although it is rather in keeping with the way Eve has behaved throughout the entire preceding story, it still seemed illogical and out of place to me. Frankly, it felt like the entire slog through Eve’s story was met with a slap in the face, and a cheap ploy to generate investment in the sequel. Near impossible choice between this and Pride and Prejudice. But Emma never fails to fascinate and annoy. What I mean by that is that this is a dystopia for a reason. Eve, Caleb and even Leif are all products of that particular society. i came over here to write the review for this book, and realized i couldn't find my copy of it. "no worries," i thought, "i will just write the review from my recollections of the text without using any quotes or anything..."