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lordlaity's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
I wouldn't have thought I would rate a book about evolutionary biology so highly but here we are.
This made a lot of shit click for me in a really big way.
This made a lot of shit click for me in a really big way.
gabmarie101's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
sparkles_f's review against another edition
4.0
4.5 Our bodies are a lot more amazing than I thought.
zeemonodee's review against another edition
3.0
It's actually more a 2.5 stars than 3
While there's a lot of information in this book, I'm not really sure what it was really meant to be... Scientific? Sociological? Chronological about evolution? I really liked the aspects that showcased the history of women - like how agriculture brought settlement, but it was really using wet nurses that boomed population. That's the kind of thought and cause/effect/relation I was hoping this'd be. But some chapters were super scientific, some made no sense regarding women and history (how primates live even nowadays and the way their society is ranked/organized - how is that pertinent to women?) I loved the mention of breast plastic surgery leading to different deposits of adipose tissue in women's bodies - this was in the introduction, and that's the kind of insight I wanted to come away with in this book. However, for example, how can a little animal that secreted milk all over its belly lead us to women's breasts making milk and breastfeeding and that changed the world and the history of man/womankind?
All in all, I wasn't sure what this book really wanted itself to be... It's very long, very weighty with information (and I absolutely loved the footnotes), but ultimately, I don't know what I really read about...
While there's a lot of information in this book, I'm not really sure what it was really meant to be... Scientific? Sociological? Chronological about evolution? I really liked the aspects that showcased the history of women - like how agriculture brought settlement, but it was really using wet nurses that boomed population. That's the kind of thought and cause/effect/relation I was hoping this'd be. But some chapters were super scientific, some made no sense regarding women and history (how primates live even nowadays and the way their society is ranked/organized - how is that pertinent to women?) I loved the mention of breast plastic surgery leading to different deposits of adipose tissue in women's bodies - this was in the introduction, and that's the kind of insight I wanted to come away with in this book. However, for example, how can a little animal that secreted milk all over its belly lead us to women's breasts making milk and breastfeeding and that changed the world and the history of man/womankind?
All in all, I wasn't sure what this book really wanted itself to be... It's very long, very weighty with information (and I absolutely loved the footnotes), but ultimately, I don't know what I really read about...
javila's review against another edition
challenging
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.75
philverlinden's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
slow-paced