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

Cat Bohannon
Knopf, 624 pages | Published October 3, 2023

At the heart of Cat Bohannon’s ambitious, engrossing history of humanity, Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, is a startling revelation: humans are particularly bad at “reproducing ourselves — demonstrably worse at it than many other mammals.” Worse than most other primates, worse than our closest ape relatives, and certainly worse than our...