Hembras

Un deslumbrante mazazo al sexismo en la ciencia: Lucy Cooke echa por tierra una concepción errónea y obsoleta sobre la feminidad animal… La biología evolutiva reciente ha revolucionado nuestra percepción de lo que significa ser una hembra. De los lémures de Madagascar a las orcas del mar de Salish, Lucy Cooke explora la asombrosa diversidad de la feminidad animal para poner en evidencia el sesgo misógino de los planteamientos de la teoría de la evolución.

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.