EVE: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

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How did wet nurses drive civilisation? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies?

Join Cat Bohannon as she delves into 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 industrialised 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.

Cat Bohannon will be ‘In Conversation’ with Sally Howard.

AUTHOR BIO
Cat Bohannon is a researcher and author with a PhD in the evolution of narrative and cognition from Columbia University. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American, Mind, Science Magazine, The Best American Non-required Reading, The Georgia Review, The Story Collider and Poets Against the War.

CHAIR BIO
Sally Howard is a journalist and feminist academic. She holds a Master’s in Gender Studies and Law from SOAS, The University of London.
She is also the author of ‘The Kama Sutra Diaries: Intimate Journeys Through Modern India’ and ‘The Home Stretch: Why the Gender Revolution Stalled at the Kitchen Sink’.

Cat will also be signing copies of her book 'Eve' which will be available to purchase on the night.
This event will take place upstairs in The Nightingale Room at The Grand Central Pub, Brighton. Unfortunately, there is no wheelchair access at the venue.

• DOORS OPEN: 7:00pm
• TALK STARTS: 7:30pm
• AUDIENCE Q&A: 8:30pm
• BOOK SIGNING: 9:00pm (Books available to purchase on the night)