Episode 516: What If It WAS All About Eve? with Cat Bohannon

One Bad Mother

Biz Ellis and Theresa Thorn

Moms, Kids & Family, Motherhood, Theresa Thorn, Comedy, Biz Ellis, Podcast, Parenting

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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How many vaginas does it take to understand the role of evolutionary biology into modern social environments? On One Bad Mother, two. Maybe. Cat Bohannon, researcher and author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, joins Biz to talk fancy miscarriages, chimpanzees, and the oeuvre of Ridley Scott.

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0:00.0	This is Biz, and if hosting One Bad Mother for over 10 years has taught me anything,
0:04.6	it's that parenting is hard and nobody gives a shit. So belly up to the low bar,
0:09.6	where fine is good enough and you'll never feel alone. This is One Bad Mother.
0:18.8	This week on One Bad Mother, what if it was all about ease? Pat Bohanen joins to talk about her new
0:26.1	book Eve, how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution. So you know I had to
0:33.1	have her on. Welcome, Kat. Thank you. Hi. Hi. Just in case people aren't Googling right this
0:41.4	very minute, a brief bio on Kat. She is a researcher and author with a PhD from Columbia University
0:48.6	in the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems, I love this. Her essays and poems
0:55.0	have appeared in scientific America, mind science magazine, the best American non-required reading,
1:01.5	the Georgia review, the story collider, and poets against the war. And now for the ever fun question,
1:08.3	who lives in your house? Well, I assume a lot of bacteria. Yeah, beyond that, beyond that,
1:14.5	just like so. Yeah. So, so, so many. Not just because of my hygiene, but also my slot. Okay. Yeah.
1:19.7	And I also have my partner. And I also have two offspring. I have one son and one daughter,
1:28.2	or at least they have have right now. They have all the typical bits. And I happen to know about
1:33.2	their chromosomes because there was IVF in testing. And if I'm wrong about that, they're going to
1:37.1	correct me later. Yeah. Oh, they will. Trust for not running with that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How old are
1:42.0	the kids in your house? So my son is going to turn five next week. Yeah.
1:50.0	Basically hot minute right now. Yeah. And my daughter turned three in the middle of the summer.
1:55.2	Oh, so you have a really very special combination of age and all the things that go along with
2:04.4	those ages in your house right now. Is that why you're in a hotel right now by yourself?
2:10.0	Oh, darling. Oh, darling. I am in a hotel because the sky's opened and
2:15.6	hadn't stopped sending trains out of New York. I'm also in a hotel because I've just started my
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