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Back in 2012, writer Kat Bohannon went to see the movie Prometheus, Ridley Scott's prequel

to the movie Alien.

At the time, Bohannon was a grad student at Columbia University, and once seen in the

movie stood out.

An archaeologist, played by Numi Rapace, was impregnated with an alien.

She asks the spaceship's surgery pod to help her remove it, and here's what happens next.

Please verbally state the nature of your injury.

I need a cesarean.

Error, this med pod is calibrated for male patients only.

Please see medical assistance.

That was a scene from the movie Prometheus, and one of the motivations behind Bohannon's

new book.

It's called Eve, how the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution.

Bohannon says, the movie scene points out a stark reality.

For over a century, the female body has been left out of biological and medical research,

and when scientists only study the male norm, we're getting less than half of the picture

of human evolution.

Bohannon's book attempts to trace the evolution of women's bodies, and how that evolution has

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