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In Ritual, pioneering scientist Dimitris Xygalatas leads an enlightening tour through one of the most shadowy realms of human behaviour. From the author of the 25-million copy bestseller The Shack comes a captivating new novel destined to be one of the most important and talked-about books of the decade.

Too, the author's pervasive use of "she" and "her" to discuss the creatures of the fossil record, it decisively moves away from the male-by-default assumption baked into so much of the writing on our distant ancestors. Maybe the nonhuman animals were praising him but, like most English speakers, he couldn't be bothered to learn another language. Eve also suggests a new way of thinking about one’s body: as a thing of time, built on a foundation developed over millions of years…Powerful…A love letter to the ancient, creaking wonder that is evolution.The narrative abandons discussion of biology and the "Eves" she originally structured the book around, along with even a rudimentary understanding of how evolution occurs. A modern woman’s brain is not constructed from genetic instructions alone, untouched by the world in which she lives: “It takes a whole girlhood in a sexist environment to build a brain like that. Bohannon’s findings, including everything from the way C-sections in the industrialized world are rearranging women’s pelvic shape to the surprising similarities between pus and breast milk, will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens have become such a successful and dominant species, from tool use to city building to the development of language.

A cataclysmic climate emergency has spawned a one-child policy in the UK, ruthlessly enforced by a totalitarian regime. Existing as a woman in our increasingly atomized world can be isolating in ways that are hard to even identify.

I don't have the ability to judge the accuracy of these claims, but most of it seems to make sense to me.

Our need for ritual is primordial, and embracing its logic can help us connect, find meaning and discover who we are.

I thought of this period of my life often while reading Cat Bohannon's remarkable "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution," a deep dive into what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today. For years my husband has complained about not being able to hear dialogue in movies against the backdrop of the score and his inability to keep up with family conversations in restaurants among the ambient noise (note that we have 2 daughters, so all female). Assisting other women in labour was revolutionary, given the intense trust and collaboration that was required. And how today, in some parts of the world, women and girls are 'last to eat, last to be educated' to quote another book I am reading.

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