女性身體如何主導了2億年來人類的演化？為什麼女性的壽命比男性更長？為什麼女性較容易患上阿茲海默症？為什麼女孩在青春期前的學科表現普遍比男孩表現好，但青春期後突然成績下滑？性別主義對演化是否有助益？還有，為什麼，真的為什麼，女性在進入更年期時，必須每晚在床上冒汗？
 
　　人類當中有一半人擁有乳房，關於女性的身體，乳房、血液、脂肪、陰道和子宮 ，它們是如何演化形成的，女性如何與它們共存？無論真相多麼奇怪或有趣，我們都需要了解女性身理發展背後的科學。
 
　　擁有哥倫比亞大學博士學位的作者凱特‧博阿儂（Cat Bohannon），以引人入勝的機智筆法寫下《夏娃：女性的身體如何主導了2億年的人類演化》，把嚴謹的科學研究轉化為一本饒富趣味、令人大開眼界的著作。(文/博客來編譯)
 
　　「結合機智、學術深度和最新科學實證，就人類的起源，提出耳目一新的觀點。」
　　——暢銷科普書《我們的身體裡有一條魚》作者，尼爾·舒賓（Neil Shubin）推薦

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＂A refreshing new view on the origin of humanity.＂ --Neil Shubin, best-selling author of Your Inner Fish

＂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.