BITCH ON THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES by Lucy Cooke
Lucy Cooke . Unknown Year . English
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at 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.
Categories: Wildlife & Nature
About the Author
Lucy Cooke is a New York Times best-selling author, award-winning broadcaster, National Geographic explorer and TED talker with a Masters in zoology from New College Oxford, where she studied under Richard Dawkins. Lucy has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Sunday Times and Telegraph and is a columnist for BBC Wildlife magazine. Her first book The Unexpected Truth About Animals was short-listed for the Royal Society prize and has been translated into 18 languages. Her latest Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution, and the Female Animal (also Bitch: On the Female of the Species in the US) was published in 2022 to critical acclaim. The UK launch was accompanied by a BBC Radio 4 series ‘Political Animals’, written and hosted by Lucy. Lucy has written, produced and presented prime time TV documentaries for BBC, PBS, Animal Planet and National Geographic. She is an accomplished public speaker and has performed at a range of events from the Royal Institution to Glastonbury music festival and the prestigious TED Women.
