Professor Cat Bohannon and her book, 'Eve' - described as a 'sweeping corrective to centuries of research' that have used male bodies as the scientific default. Photo: Stefano Giovannini, Penguin Random House
Columbia University Professor Cat Bohannon asks how it was that the male body became the scientific default in her new book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution.
By exploring the 'Eves' of our evolutionary history, she makes the case for the female body's critical role in what makes us, 'us'.
Professor Bohannon says for centuries the female body has been overlooked in scientific and medical research, and the result is a world calibrated for the male body - from over-airconditioned offices, car crash test dummies, pharmaceuticals and medical practice.
