NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST • THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today   “ A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, Eve recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by placing women at its center…. The book is engaging, playful, erudite, discursive and rich with detail."  —Sarah Lyall, The New York Times “A smart, funny, scientific deep-dive into the power of a woman’s body, Eve surprises, educates, and emboldens.” —Bonnie Garmus, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Lessons in Chemistry   How did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? • Why do women live longer than men? • Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? • Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? • Is sexism useful for evolution? • And why, seriously why, do women have to sweat through our sheets every night when we hit menopause?   These questions are producing some truly exciting science – and in Eve, with boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Cat Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex: “We need a kind of user's manual for the female mammal. A no-nonsense, hard-hitting, seriously researched (but readable) account of what we are. How female bodies evolved, how they work, what it really means to biologically be a woman. Something that would rewrite the story of womanhood. This book is that story. We have to put the female body in the picture. If we don't, it's not just feminism that's compromised. Modern medicine, neurobiology, paleoanthropology, even evolutionary biology all take a hit when we ignore the fact that half of us have breasts. So it's time we talk about breasts. Breasts, and blood, and fat, and vaginas, and wombs—all of it. How they came to be and how we live with them now, no matter how weird or hilarious the truth is.”   Eve is not only a sweeping revision of human history, it’s an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Picking up where Sapiens left off, Eve will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens has become such a successful and dominant species. “The high-velocity, high-impact Eve , part owner’s manual for the female body…part sweeping saga of mammalian history; and part clapback against the tendency of much evolutionary thought to place men, and their furry mancestors, at the center of the action….Bohannon has a poet’s voice…and a reporter’s eye. Eve is an endless source of dinner-party trivia, much of it inappropriate for actual dinner parties.... Eve also suggests a new way of thinking about one’s body: as a thing of time, built on a foundation developed over millions of years…Powerful…A love letter to the ancient, creaking wonder that is evolution.” —Cindi Leive, The New York Times Book Review “ Eve erases any lingering misconception about the centrality of women, giving us a detailed look at women’s biology....The book brims with unexpected insights, described with a lovely mixture of scientific veracity and novelistic flair.” —David P. Barash, Wall Street Journal "Bohannon presents nothing less than a new history of the species by examining human evolution through the lens of womankind. It’s a provocative corrective that will answer dozens of questions you’ve always had — and even more you never thought to ask." —The New York Times "Bohannon offers a refreshing and lively corrective to a story that has focused mainly on male evolution." —Josie Glausiusz, Nature "Bohannon calls on her astounding disciplinary range to tell this epic tale. Her writing ripples with references from literature, film studies, biochemistry, cognitive science and anthropology....The footnotes alone, which are particularly learned, irreverent and funny, are a masterpiece....She is bold when speaking against abortion restrictions, the gender wage gap, sex essentialism...and chastity laws. There’s also a grungy lushness to her prose that celebrates saliva, cervical and laryngeal mucus, buttocks... and fat."  —Kate Womersley, The Guardian "A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, Eve recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by placing women at its center....Timely...The book is engaging, playful, erudite, discursive and rich with detail....Replete with interesting, far-afield facts, [and] many tucked inside footnotes." —Sarah Lyall, The New York Times "Fascinating...An impressive feat...A book that is at once highly complex...and very