sex differences

"In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not just 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 rejiggering women's pelvic shape to the surprising similarities between pus and breast milk, will completely change what you think you know about evolution . . . and women. A 21st-century update of Our Bodies, Ourselves, Eve offers a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is and why it matters"--Provided by publisher.

Text and illustrations look at the human body, gender, and sexuality for children.

Explains the evolutionary aspects of gender differences, demonstrating how male-female differences in the behavior of humans compares to male-female differences in animals and discussing how those observations can help researchers understand what it means to be male and female.

Concludes that there is a lack of substance behind ideas about biologically based sex differences.

Evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson conveys astonishing facts and figures about the sex lives of creatures great and small.

Discusses the malleability of infant brains and the small ways that gender differences are, over time, amplified and guided by parents, teachers, and society as a whole, and argues for ways to encourage balanced gender development among boys and girls.

Studies the origins of the female frailty myth and explains why it has a damaging effect on women's health, social status, and physical safety.

Identifies and explains over a hundred physiological differences between men and women, arranged alphabetically and including notes and references and an index.