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An illustration from Eve: ‘The more we know about women, from their ovaries to their aortas, the more we know about everybody. The Book of Eve draws you into its rich, unsettling world from the first page and refuses to let go until the very end. I loved everything about this (even if it did take quite a while to read) and I would unhesitatingly recommend it to any reader. Claire Horn takes us on a truly radical and urgent deep dive into the most challenging and pertinent questions of our age.

I read Meg Clothier's The Book of Eve in a quick burst, enchanted by the plot, the mysterious manuscript, and the unfolding relationships between characters. Forced to make the most heartbreaking decisions of their lives, will their choices save them… or be their undoing? Costanza Casati, author of CLYTEMNESTRA A truly beautiful book, brimming with unsettling magic and the love of literature. It's an education hidden in a tense, compelling, anger-driven narrative, Beatrice and Diana both knock-out characters.All of it fascinating and written in a style a layperson can understand, but certainly overwhelming at times - thank goodness for discrete chapters which can be picked up at. The Binding meets The Handmaid's Tale - Discovering a book of dark and ancient power, a convent librarian must defend it with her life. Why older women are useful, why the wet nurse was responsible for explosive population growth in early farming towns.

The entire reason the United States built the CDC [and located it in Atlanta] is that malaria was rampant throughout the American south. Picking up where Sapiens left off, Eve is a landmark book, offering a true paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is and why it matters. I came back to add that the more I reflect on this book, the more frustrated I become that this passed review, and the more committed I am to providing excellent scientific education to my students because this is just bad science. In the opening scene of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” a pack of male hominids gather, screech and chase one another around Stanley Kubrick’s set. This profound misunderstanding of how natural selection works then structures the second half of the book, which comprises the evolutionary psychology chapters.When she’s not writing she’s racing across fields after her dog, trying to organise herself and her family, or off exploring somewhere new.

Discover your next non-fiction read and brilliant book gifts in the Profile newsletter, and find books to help you live well with Souvenir Press. She does a great job describing the "tree thinking" she uses to identify her "Eves," the most recent common ancestor with a given trait.

She wants to change how we understand all of human evolution — to tear our eyes away from “the clever ape — always male” — and force us to consider the female of the species. A modern woman’s brain is not constructed from genetic instructions alone, untouched by the world in which she lives: “It takes a whole girlhood in a sexist environment to build a brain like that. Eve is an endless source of dinner-party trivia, much of it inappropriate for actual dinner parties . Empires of EVE chronicles the birth of the virtual world EVE Online and documents its descent into total war as ideological factions of players divided the game world and fought for its future. In this world of questionable facts, stats and news, she believes storytelling is more important than ever to engage people in real life issues.

Eve is an endless source of dinner-party trivia, much of it inappropriate for actual dinner parties…. She does a reasonably good job of distinguishing sex and gender, although I don't think she gave a full description of the myriad ways in which "biological sex" reflects congruence among the distributions of many traits.

I am trying hard to ignore them, because it undermines a lot of her points- you have to go back 300 million years for the origin of these amazing biological functions essential to life that are unique to women, yet trans women are still women. However, she is definitely inserting a lot of modern gender politics in the book because every few pages there is a snarky comment about gender essentialists, or how trans women don't have uterus's but they are still women (no, they are biological men who are changing their gender presentation), and it is extremely distracting because the book is about female biology.