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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. RESOURCES: Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution , by Cat Bohannon (2023). " Genomic Inference of a Severe Human Bottleneck During the Early to Middle Pleistocene Transition ," by Wangjie Hu, Ziqian Hao, Pengyuan Du, Fabio Di Vincenzo, Giorgio Manzi, Jialong Cui, Yun-Xin Fu, Yi-Hsuan, and Haipeng Li ( Science, 2023). " The Greatest Invention in the History of Humanity ," by Cat Bohannon ( The Atlantic, 2023). " A Newborn Infant Chimpanzee Snatched and Cannibalized Immediately After Birth: Implications for 'Maternity Leave' in Wild Chimpanzee ," by Hitonaru Nishie and Michio Nakamura ( American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2018). " War in the Womb ," by Suzanne Sadedin ( Aeon, 2014). " Timing of Childbirth Evolved to Match Women’s Energy Limits ," by Erin Wayman ( Smithsonian Magazine, 2012). " Bonobo Sex and Society ," by Frans B. M. de Waal ( Scientific American, 2006). EXTRAS: " Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life Is Meaningless and A…