Currently Reading - Eve

Currently Reading - Eve I'm currently reading Eve by Cat Bohannon. It's an overview of the evolutionary history of mammals/humans through womens bodies. It picks various "Eve's", animals who were possibly the first women depending on different views of what makes a woman. As someone who hasn't read into biology or evolutionary history much since GCSE's, I'm finding this deeply interesting. At the moment, I'm onto the development of mammals who produced milk, the first example of which is a mouse the size of a human thumb who sweat it out of their skin! The book has gone on to discuss the numerous functions of milk. Did you know that when a child drinks milk, the breast absorbs their saliva and uses its chemical composition to detect their emotional state and any illnesses or specific nutritional deficiencies and on-the-fly alters the composition of the milk it produces to provide anti-bodies, calming hormones or the needed nutrients?? It turns out milk is a deeply complex system which…