Our capacity for learning and innovating in language is innate, but nevertheless, for the largest gains in intergenerational communication to persist over time, each generation has to pass language on to the next with careful effort, interactive learning, and guided development. What an extraordinary book - rich in historical detail and full of esoteric knowledge yet wearing its learning lightly while tapping into a rage that's universal at men's endless attempts to control the doings and thinkings of women. But apparently no one, before the author, ever asked what the ramifications might be when a post-liposuction woman becomes pregnant. I learned so much throughout "Eve," yet what is equally as profound is how much I actually enjoyed that learning from beginning to end. After sulking for a day over his lost maid companion, he thought of something to make him feel better.

So, ultimately, this isn’t simply an objective overview of the science behind “how the female body drove evolution”. The majority of scientific stories about the evolution of human language fall in line: at each turn, human innovation has been driven by groups of men solving man-problems.But falling madly in love with the one boy she is forbidden from threatens to pull Ruby back into poverty and desperation. So, God said, Let there be firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters!

Very detailed and interesting book looking at female body evolution has effected human evolution and has opened my eyes on certain subjects, the author tries to make the book simple in parts so the reader doesn't need a biological or medical knowledge to fully understand. She has a gift for turning complex scientific theory into clear and breezy language, framing each chapter with an engaging vignette . In the dawn of the 1950s, Ruby and Eleanor are complete strangers – until their paths unexpectedly collide.

Studying men, unaffected by periods and pregnancy, may produce “clean” data, but only by shifting risk for women out of the controlled setting of a lab and into the chaos of the real world.

Eve ] is a gripping, lyrical tale of female suffering, of remarkable resilience, of the lengths we will go to to survive and to protect our young. Each early ancestor that contributed a given feature (as near as we can tell) appears as a separate Eve. It's much harder to find someone who remembers a difficult thing that happened forty years ago, or how, precisely, the community managed to find a workaround. A] punchy and utterly compelling book, which not only traces the evolutionary paths of our male and female ancestors over the past 200 million years but also argues that the way female bodies changed during that time made us who we are today: mankind is essentially womankind. From the first chapter, on a small egg-laying burrowing mammal producing liquid through adapted skin patches for her nurslings, we see how the female body arose and how one small successful step drove another one.A great book, gives a lot of information regarding female evolution but in a very engaging and witty style. If this tableau is newly familiar, it may be because Greta Gerwig restaged it in “Barbie,” imagining the moment with a doll instead of a weapon. Every few pages there would be some fact I didn’t know or an idea that was new to me, and I would ask my wife if she knew, and she’d say, “What? But it's not just a scientific account, it's a wide-ranging exploration of the implications and consequences of that biology. Beyond making me gasp aloud in wonder, Bohannon’s book was an unexpected antidote, delivering a profound sense of kinship with every other woman who’s ever existed (plus those various Eve ancestors).