Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Author: Cat Bohannon
Publisher: Penguin
Price: Rs 699
Pages: 624
Evolution is a journey in time. Our biological features, chemical composition, psychological make-up and social skills are all a result of a back-and-forth tryst with science as is evident in theories of deep time and the fossil remains from pre-history. At a time when the norm in biological and medical research is to study the male body as the standard indicator of growth and development of the species, scholar Cat Bohannon places the female body – which is