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I'm Rufus Griscombe and this is the next big idea.

Today, how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution. I think it's fair to say that as a species we are narcissists. We're impressed by ourselves.

We relish the story of human evolution much as a sentimental person loves to share pictures from their childhood.

Wasn't I cute? Look at this one.

This might help explain why you've all know a Harare's book Sapiens, which tells the scientific story of our origin with the simplicity of, say, the Bible, is among the best-selling books in history.

We had the pleasure of having you've all as a guest on the show,

and I asked him about this nostalgia we have for our collective childhood.

I asked if he felt it too. If part of him longed for the ancient world. He told me...

I think in a way almost all of us have this launching. Something inside us remembers the Stone Age and sometimes wants to go back there.

I feel this, a desire to know what it felt like to live immersed in the environment in which all of our instincts and senses evolved.

And so I've explored our ancient past on this show with other guests like David Wengro, whose book The Dawn of Everything opened my eyes to the incredible breadth of human social structures.

With Christopher Ryan, who connected all of our modern troubles to our departure from our ancestral state in civilized to death.

And with Edward Slingerland, who talked about the first human keg party and the possibility

that the desire to drink together drove the advent of farming.

These guests, as you may have noticed, are all men.

Unfortunately, a preponderance of the tellers of the human story have been.

As a result, the protagonist of their tales are mostly dudes too.

Crow Magna and Bob the Buildersers swinging ancient hammers.

But an exciting new book came out recently

which sets out to change all this.

It's called Eve, how the female body drove 200 million years of human

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