Eve: How the Female Body Shaped Evolution by Cat Bohannon - OPTIONAL

Eve: How the Female Body Shaped Evolution by Cat Bohannon, 416 pages. NON FICTION Bright Matter Books (Random House), 2025. $21

Language: G (0 swears, 0 ‘f'); Mature Content: PG-13 (Nude drawings of the female body); Violence: G

BUYING ADVISORY: ADULT - OPTIONAL

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The female body, which is much more complicated than the male body, had a greater need to evolve over the millennia due to the many facets of reproduction and survival. Gynecology is the number one tool used to keep the female body alive and advancing. The female body evolved through the following systems: milk production, the womb, perception, the legs, tools, the brain, the voice, menopause, and love. Many advances in female medicine continue to give females an evolutionary edge.

While Bohannon describes interesting information about the female body, she misses the target with this book that has been “adapted for Young Adults”. There are few young adults that would put the time in to read this vast scientific book. She writes clearly, but gets bogged down in the details. Her feminist lens and evolutionary lens are narrow and do not account for intelligent choice.

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