On Friday, April 12, at 5:00 pm, A Literary Cocktail Hour will host New York Times bestselling author Cat Bohannon discussing her book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, a finalist for the 2024 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. A myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, the book offers 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. To register for this online event, go to
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4xs-1quxSYuzOZrOJSeUZQ#/registration
So 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? •
CAT BOHANNON is a researcher and author with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American, Mind, Science Magazine, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Georgia Review, The Story Collider, and Poets Against the War. She lives with her family in Seattle.