Lucy Cooke, “Bitch: On the Female of the Species” (Basic Books, 2022)
Bitch: On the Female of the Species (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781541674899) (Basic Books, 2022) is a fierce, funny, and groundbreaking look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like a sad monster. Not because she liked spiders or digging through animal droppings: all her friends shared the same curious quirks. The problem was his gender. Being a woman meant that she was, by nature, a loser. Since Charles Darwin, evolutionary biologists have been convinced that males in the animal kingdom are the most interesting: dominant and promiscuous, while females are boring, passive and devoted. In Bitch, Cooke tells a new story. Whether investigating same-sex albatross pairs raising chicks, murderous meerkat mothers, or ducks' titanic battle of the sexes, Cooke shows us a new evolutionary biology, in which females can be as dynamic as any male. This isn't your grandfather's evolutionary biology. It's more inclusive, more realistic and, quite simply, more fun.
Sine Yaganoglu (https://ch.linkedin.com/in/sine-yaganoglu) trained as a neuroscientist and bioengineer (PhD, ETH Zurich). She currently works in innovation management and diagnostics.
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