Best Of: Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Female Animals
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English - June 26, 2022 16:24 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MB - ★★★★ - 4.1K ratingsNews entrepreneurship business interview culture health interviews news politics science comedy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Submissive. Chaste. Monogamous.
That's how evolutionary biologists have classified female animals for centuries — dating back to Darwin and Aristotle.
Zoologist Lucy Cooke says they've got it all wrong.
Cooke joins us to talk about her new book, "Bitch: On the Female of the Species".
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