Date: Friday, March 7, 2025, from 12:15-1:45pm

Location: Calder Lounge (Uris Hall 107)

Series: Patriarchal Violence

Speaker: Cat Bohannon (Researcher and Author)

Respondent: Eleanor Johnson (Columbia University)

Abstract: What if the selfish gene theory is actually a poor model of human reproduction?  Female mammals’ sex organs seem to spend most of their time avoiding fertilization, not the other way around—which can give us better directions in women’s health research and a better way of telling the story of the female body. (Spoiler alert: it might also save male lives, too.)

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