Hey there. It's Stephen Dubner. This is the time of year we share with you some of the other

shows we've been making at the Freakonomics Radio Network. Today the show that around here we call Pima full name people I mostly admire it is an

interview show hosted by my freakonomics friend and co-author Steve Leavitt

who is an economist at the University of Chicago.

The episode you're about to hear is a fascinating and wonderfully weird conversation

with Cat Bohannon, an evolution researcher and the author of a new book called

Eve, how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution. My guess is that after hearing this episode you will want to

go right to your podcast app and follow people I mostly admire. So if you want to do that

now, I'll give you a second.

Okay, nice job.

One more thing.

In this episode of Pimaima there is a goodly amount of frank conversation

about various sexual and reproductive topics if that is a problem in your

household you might want to hit the pause button.

And here now is Steve Leavitt

with a special episode of people I mostly admire. My guest today, Cat Bohannon describes herself as a researcher, scholar, author, and freak.

She's written a book called Eve, how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution.

We are by no means the perfect model of a success story. If you dropped a Martian down they wouldn't be like

that's the guy. We were by no means the top of the food chain and we were not necessarily even

the most clever, but either.

Apes are really clever.

We're just another ape.

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