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Thank you, Ed. From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim.

Coming up on form, what does it really mean biologically to be a woman?

That's one of the central questions Kat Bohannon explores in her new book,

Eve, how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution.

Bohanin makes the case that until recently, scientists have effectively ignored women.

The majority of subjects in clinical trials are male,

and too many researchers still mistakenly assume that sex differences are mainly about sex organs

rather than a panoply of biological and physiological features that evolved in the female body over millions of years.

We talked to Bohannon about what it will take to, quote, tear down the male norm and put better science in its place.

Join us.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Nina Kim. What if we took the story of evolution and centered women?

We focus specifically on how the female body evolved. Well, that's what Kat Pohanan does in her new

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