Book review: Cat Bohannon's Eve traces the evolution of women's bodies

Bohannan's writing has a uniquely cinematic quality. She openly discusses topics we avoid talking about - nipples, fat, menstrual blood, armpits and more

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