Cat Bohannon Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Cat Bohannon is a published author and researcher.

She has a PhD from Columbia University that she completed in 2022 about the evolution of narrative and cognition. There she studied the evolution of narrative and cognition.

Cat has had her writing featured in places such as The Atlantic, Science Magazine, Scientific American, The Georgia Review, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Story Collider, Poets Against the War, and on The Story Collider.

Her first book was Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution. It was a best seller that hit the tops of the charts on the New York Times.

Cat resides in the United States with her partner and their two children.

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution is the debut book from Cat Bohannon. It was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award for Readers’ Favorite Nonfiction in 2023.

This is a myth busting and an eye opening landmark account of how humans evolved. It offers a paradigm shift in the way that we think about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still has the ability to shape all of our lives today.

The real question tackled in the book is how did the female body manage to drive 200 million years of human evolution, as well as other questions asked by Cat Bohannon. The questions include why it is that women live longer than men, why women are more statistically likely to come down with Alzheimer’s, why girls score better at academic subjects than boys until they hit puberty when the scores go down, and whether sexism is useful for evolution. It also asks why women have to sweat through their sheets each night when they hit menopause.

In addition, these questions are also producing some exciting scientific avenues. In Eve, with tons of curiosity and a razor sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past two hundred million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex.

According to the author, the reader needs a user’s manual for the female mammal that is hard hitting, non nonsense, researched but readable that goes over how female bodies evolved, how they work, and what it means to be a woman biologically, something that would rewrite the story of womanhood that puts the female body in the picture and focuses on breasts, blood, fat, vagina, wombs– everything that comes with being a woman, how they came to be and how women live with them now.

Eve is not only an account of human history that sweepingly revises it, it is an urgent and necessary corrective for a society that has been focused largely on the male body for years. Pick up a copy of Eve and have what you think you know about evolution changed and start to see what women have to do with making human beings such a successful and dominant species.