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Mr Darwin, your time is up... This is the evolutionary reboot us bitches have been waiting for.' - Sue Perkins

P 39, House Rules, Chapter Three, Educating Your Bitch, Book of the Bitch by J. M. Evans and Kay White Glorious ... A bold and gripping takedown of the sexist mythology baked into biology ... Full of marvellous surprises. Guardian

Josie Glausiusz is a science journalist who writes for Nature, Scientific American, National Geographic and the BBC. The bitches in BITCH overturn outdated binary expectations of bodies, brains, biology and behaviour. Lucy Cooke's brilliant new book will change how you think - about sex, sexual identity and sexuality in animals and also the very forces that shape evolution. Beautifully written, very funny and deeply important - Lucy Cooke blows two centuries of sexist myths right out of biology.'- Professor Alice Roberts Kay White is a journalist and prolific author who actively supports an overall educational initiative directed at improving pet care. An] effervescent expos é ... [A] playful, enlightening tour of the vanguard of evolutionary biology.' Scientific American

Bitch is so full of marvellous surprises about sex roles that I sensed Cooke herself was transformed in its writing. Studying zoology at university, she writes, made her feel like “a sad misfit”, an “egg-maker ... doomed to play second fiddle to the sperm-shooters”. But after three years of delving into the dizzy variability of female roles, she feels liberated. Much of the distorted science she had been taught was shaped by the values of a certain kind of man. To change that, she insists, we need more diverse scientists: “a mixture of sexes, sexualities, genders, skin colours, classes, cultures, abilities and ages”. Only then, it seems, will we be able to see the female experience in nature for what it is: “variable, highly plastic”, and refusing “to conform to archaic classifications”. In Book Of The Bitch, we dog owners can learn all there is to know about the health and hormonal issues which specifically affect the female of the canine species. From puberty to pregnancy and whelping, to diseases of the older dog, there is much to learn. And if that’s the stuff you’re looking for, then this is the classic. A book that is tearing down the stereotypes and the biases. Absolutely fascinating.' BBC R4 Woman's HourJim Evans is a highly experienced vet, who has specialised in the care of dogs. He has been a Captain with the Army Dog Training School in Germany, and worked with many companies in the pet care industry. He has written numerous scientific papers and has travelled worldwide on lecture tours. Selected for the Telegraph's 'best books for summer 2022' and as one of the Guardian's '50 hottest new books for a great escape'.

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