Why is the male body the scientific default when the female body drives the reproductive success of our species?
- Written by: Edwina Preston, PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne
Eve – Lucas Cranach the Elder (c.1510)Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsAmerican essayist Cat Bohannon loves a bit of pop culture to contextualise her ideas. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution – her ambitious, funny, intelligent history of female evolution – is threaded with it.
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