Name: Bitch: On the Female of the Species
Price: 22.66 EUR
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Author: Lucy Cooke
ISBN: 9781541674912

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Lucy Cooke

Publisher

Basic Books

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781541674912

Bitch: On the Female of the Species

Lucy Cooke (Author) · Basic Books · Paperback

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Synopsis "Bitch: On the Female of the Species "

A "playful, enlightening," and "effervescent exposé" (Scientific American) on the queens of the animal kingdom Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like a sad freak. Not because she loved spiders or would root around in animal feces: all her friends shared the same curious kinks. The problem was her sex. Being female meant she was, by nature, a loser. Since Charles Darwin, evolutionary biologists have been convinced that the males of the animal kingdom are the interesting ones--dominating and promiscuous, while females are dull, passive, and devoted. In Bitch, Cooke tells a new story. Whether investigating same-sex female albatross couples that raise chicks, murderous mother meerkats, or the titanic battle of the sexes waged by ducks, Cooke shows us a new evolutionary biology, one where females can be as dynamic as any male. This isn't your grandfather's evolutionary biology. It's more inclusive, truer to life, and, simply, more fun.

Lucy Cooke

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Lucy Cooke es una escritora, divulgadora científica y presentadora británica, formada en zoología en la Universidad de Oxford, donde fue alumna de Richard Dawkins. Su trabajo se centra en cuestionar los sesgos históricos de la biología evolutiva, especialmente aquellos que han distorsionado la comprensión científica del comportamiento animal femenino. Con un estilo afilado y accesible, Cooke combina investigación académica, periodismo científico y una saludable desconfianza hacia las verdades heredadas que nadie se molestó en revisar.

Su libro más conocido es Hembras (Bitch: On the Female of the Species), un ensayo que revisa décadas de ciencia escrita desde una mirada androcéntrica y propone una reinterpretación basada en evidencia actual. También es autora de The Truth About Animals y A Little Book of Sloth. Además de escribir, ha trabajado extensamente en documentales para la BBC, consolidándose como una de las voces más incisivas de la divulgación científica contemporánea.

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