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Stay at Stabuy and Laugh Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone.

You know, we don't usually play sound bites of guests who are appearing on the show.

Why play them recorded when they're here talking to us live, right?

But the author, Kat Bellhannon, has put out such a compelling three-minute video

to help introduce people to her new book called Eve,

that I thought we might begin with 30 seconds of that video

and then here from her live.

The full title of the book is Eve, how the female body

drove 200 million years of human evolution.

Of myson men, this much is certain.

Being sexed permeates every major feature of our mammalian bodies

and the lives we live inside them.

But for over a century, the female body has been radically left out

of biological and medical research.

That's finally starting to change.

And what we're learning about the biology of sex differences

is rewriting the story of humanity.

Kat Bellhannon on video, Kat Bellhannon is about to join us live.

The book addresses such questions as, why do women live longer than men?

Why are they less hairy? Why do women menstruate?

Does the female brain really exist?

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