Draft:Cat Bohannon

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  • Comment: The previous rejection pointed out that she did not rise to notability, although the book might. This is one of those Wikipedia "features", authors have to be notable in their own right. There also seems to be a misunderstanding about notability; just publishing in Scientific American or Science does not mean much. I suggest writing an article about the book and getting that accepted. You could add a couple of sentences on her there. Then create a redirect (or have someone else do one) from her to the book. Ldm1954 (talk) 14:43, 8 December 2023 (UTC)


Cat Bohannon
Bohannon at the 2023 Texas Book Festival
Bohannon at the 2023 Texas Book Festival
Born1979
United States
OccupationResearcher and author
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia University
GenreNonfiction
Children2
Website
www.catbohannon.com

Catherine "Cat" Bohannon is an American researcher and author. Her debut book, Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, reached The New York Times Best Seller list for nonfiction in October of 2023.[1]

Background[edit]

Bohannon was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Her father was a psychology professor at Emory University and her mother was a pianist.[2] Bohannon has a Ph. D. from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing, also from Columbia.[3] Her writing has appeared in various publications, such as Scientific American and Science[4][5]

Eve[edit]

In 2023, Bohannon's book Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution was published. The book explores how women’s biology shaped human history and culture.[6] One claim in the book is that when it comes to biological and medical research and clinical drug trials women's bodies have long been overlooked because males have fewer "complicating" factors such as the estrous cycle.[7] The book won Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year.[8]

Bohannon was interviewed about the book by the Guardian, the Economist, NPR, KQED and the Times of India.[9][10][7][11][12]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Bohannon, Cat (2023). Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution. Cornerstone Random House. ISBN 9781529151251.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  2. ^ Guest, Katy (30 September 2023). "How women drove evolution: Cat Bohannon on her radical new history of humanity". The Guardian. Guardian News & Media Limited. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  3. ^ Rittman, Carliann. "Writers to Watch: 10 Noteworthy Nonfiction Debuts, Fall 2023". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  4. ^ Bohannon, Cat (July 2014). "When Arousal Is Agony". Scientific American.
  5. ^ Bohannon, Cat (September 30, 2011). "Between Two Poles The Book of Ice by Paul D. Miller Mark Batty, Brooklyn, NY, 2011. 128 pp. $29.95, C$34, £21. ISBN 9781935613145". Science. 333 (6051): 1827. doi:10.1126/science.1213910. S2CID 129787733 – via CrossRef.
  6. ^ Womersley, Kate (October 10, 2023). "Eve by Cat Bohannon review – long overdue evolutionary account of women and their bodies". The Guardian.
  7. ^ a b Mosley, Tonya. "'Eve' author says medicine often ignores female bodies. 'We've been guinea pigs'". npr. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  8. ^ "Foyles Books of the Year". Foyles. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  9. ^ Guest, Katy (September 30, 2023). "How women drove evolution: Cat Bohannon on her radical new history of humanity". the Guardian. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
  10. ^ "Cat Bohannon is on a mission to recognise the role of women's bodies in human evolution". the Economist (Podcast). January 3, 2024.
  11. ^ Kim, Mina (October 5, 2023). "Cat Bohannon Rewrites the History of the Female Body in 'Eve'". KQED.
  12. ^ Bhattacharji Rose, Jaya (December 30, 2023). "Why Cat Bohannon wrote 'Eve, How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution'". Times of India.

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