Bohannon…creates a jaunty, digressive, and often whimsical tale examining the origins of some defining features of womanhood…. The Binding meets The Handmaid's Tale - Discovering a book of dark and ancient power, a convent librarian must defend it with her life.

She has written for a variety of academic and nonfiction publications, including the Journal of Medical Ethics, the Medical Law Review, Feminist Legal Studies, Catalyst, Aeon, and Lady Science. An illustration from Eve: ‘The more we know about women, from their ovaries to their aortas, the more we know about everybody. With "Eve," Bohannon passionately declares a corrective and beautifully brings to life the power and glory of the female body and how it truly has driven 200 million years of human evolution. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

One example is that the fat in women's hips, thighs, and buttocks is full of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids like those found in fish oil.

There’s also a grungy lushness to her prose that celebrates saliva, cervical and laryngeal mucus, buttocks, the “metal tang of old menstrual blood”, and fat.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Apparently this difference evolved as females needed to be able to hear their babies over the sounds in the canopy when they moved about.

The narrative abandons discussion of biology and the "Eves" she originally structured the book around, along with even a rudimentary understanding of how evolution occurs. It's usually not hard to find someone who can remember a difficult thing that happened ten years ago.

After all, the book’s mixture of science and speculation is more accurate than the illusion of a sex-neutral body that medicine has been peddling for centuries.