![]() ![]() Since then, the author asserts, men have been battling to regain through misogyny and patriarchal cultures the power they lost 150,000 years. Shlain, a surgeon as well as the author of Art and Physics and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, argues that occasional ovulation gave woman control over their sexuality. This was due to cranial size outpacing growth of the pelvis and birth canal. Women evolved from having constant estrus to having monthly menses and hidden ovulation in response to a surge in the death rate of women and infants during childbirth. ![]() Working from the premise that Homo sapiens emerged 150,000 years ago in Africa from Mitochondrial Eve, Shlain argues that humans succeeded because of the dramatic change in hormonal cycle that Eve and her female successors experienced. APA style: Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution.Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution." Retrieved from MLA style: "Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution." The Free Library. ![]()
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