Bitch: On the Female of the Species

By Lucy Cooke

Book Overview

A "playful, enlightening," and "effervescent expos?" (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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 154167491X
• ISBN13: 9781541674912
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 10.0"