This Is Now: Cat Bohannon

Schedule

Fri Mar 07 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Kepler's Books | Menlo Park, CA

In her groundbreaking EVE, Cat Bohannon asks the questions that scientists should have been addressing for decades about female bodies.
About this Event

“Recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by placing women at its center…. Engaging, playful, erudite, discursive, and rich with detail.”—Sarah Lyall, The New York Times

“A smart, funny, scientific deep-dive into the power of a woman’s body, Eve surprises, educates, and emboldens.”—Bonnie Garmus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
Why do women live longer than men? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? And why, seriously why, do women have to sweat through our sheets every night when we hit menopause?
These questions are producing some truly exciting science—and in Eve, with boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Cat Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not only a sweeping revision of human history, it’s an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Eve will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens has become such a successful and dominant species.

Join journalist-in-residence Angie Coiro as we ask Cat Bohannon the questions about female bodies that scientists should have addressed long ago—and, guided by Bohannon’s blend of knowledge and skilled storytelling, start to find some answers.


About the Author

Cat Bohannon is a researcher and author with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American, Mind, Science Magazine, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Georgia Review, The Story Collider, and Poets Against the War. She lives with her family in Seattle.

Photo by Stefano Giovannini


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Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, United States
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