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Hello and welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
Im senior producer Connor Boyle for this episode, were hearing from the researcher, scholar and writer Kat Bohannon, whose recent book Eve looks at the evolution of the human species with a focus on women.
The book traces that journey from the jurassic era across millennia.
Joining Kat to discuss it is Lucy Cooke, zoologist, presenter and author, who listeners may remember from an earlier episode on the podcast when Lucy discussed her own book, a revolutionary guide to sex, evolution and the female animal.
Let's join Lucy now with more.
I'm delighted to be interviewing Kat Bohannon for intelligence squared today.
Kat is a researcher and author with a PhD from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition.
And her new book is how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution.
And I absolutely love this book.
I've got a million questions I want to ask, but I'm going to kick off with a biggie.
Kat, please tell me how midwives set our ancestors on the evolutionary path to success.