Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

　　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

　　An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting, and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new researcher and writer

　　Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? 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? And does the female brain really exist?

　　In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, she covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. 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. Bohannon’s findings, including everything from the way C-sections in the industrialized world are rearranging women’s pelvic shape to the surprising similarities between pus and breast milk, will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens have become such a successful and dominant species, from tool use to city building to the development of language.

　　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.

　　凱特‧博阿儂（Cat Bohannon）是一名擁有哥倫比亞大學博士學位的研究學者，在敘事和認知演化史領域有卓越的表現，文章和詩作曾刊登在《Scientific American》和《Science Magazine》等科學期刊，以及《The Best American Nonrequired Reading》和《Poets Against the War》等藝文刊物中。