Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2023-12-28
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In a special episode of People I (Mostly) Admire, Steve Levitt talks to Cat Bohannon about her new book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution. SOURCE:Cat Bohannon, researcher and author.
Steve Levitt recommended Eve by Cat Bohannon and Directory of Officers, Faculty, Students, Departments by University of Pennsylvania.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Eve
Eve by Cat Bohannon is a popular science book exploring how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution.
Recommended“Welcome to a special episode of 'People I Mostly Admire' with Steve Levitt. I did not expect to like this book. I'm generally just not that interested in things that happened 200 million years ago or even 10,000 years ago.”
Where to get it
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Directory of Officers, Faculty, Students, Departments
The Directory of Officers, Faculty, Students, Departments is an administrative register published by the University of Pennsylvania.
Recommended“Well, few people cover more ground than K. Bannan and her book 'Eve', so I suspect our email inbox will be quite busy. I'm eager to hear what you think, whether you're an expert in the subject matter or just someone like me who isn't very familiar with the topic but loves to think about new ideas.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Eve
“the episode you're about to hear is a fascinating and wonderfully weird conversation with cat bohannan an evolution researcher and the author of a new book called Eve how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution”
Passing Eve
“she's written a book called Eve how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution”
Plugged Eve
“more broadly the book is called Eve how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution”
Passing Eve
“well few people cover more ground than K bannan and her book Eve so I suspect our email inbox will be quite busy”