And the Make it. A. Make him back. This is hell. to be and apparently the past ain't either. This is hell and we are starting this week by

discussing the past 200 million years of human evolution, so no big deal.

It turns out being male or female is about a lot more than only sex organs,

and in taking that first step in understanding what it means to be sexed,

we can have a much better understanding of women as in the female form.

According to today's guest, you can also attain that better understanding when you consider 200 million

years of evolution.

That is if you believe in that kind of thing. So again no big deal. The problems with our

understanding of women starts at the beginning as in the very beginning as in the book of

Genesis which explains the origins of life as coming from one woman.

Eve.

But as our guest argues, there is never a single Eve.

In fact, we don't know all of the eaves yet who contributed to the evolution of us, their descendants.

But by considering those many eaves, we can not only have a better understanding of women, but all of humanity writ large.

Keeping in mind that I did horribly in biology classes.

In a few minutes we will be speaking with researcher, scholar, writer, and according to her

website,

freak, Cat Bo Hanen, author of Eve How the Female Body Drove 200 million years of human evolution.

Cat is a researcher and author with a PhD from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and

cognition. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic Scientific American, Science, Mind, the Best American Non Required Reading, Laffham's Quarterly,

the Georgia Review, Poets Against the War, on the story collider.

Eve is her first book and a New York Times bestseller.

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