Aparna Sachdev’s Reviews > Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution > Status Update

"...maybe we need a better narrative to describe humanity's "triumph." Our story doesn't begin with a weapon...a man. The symbols of our ultimate technological achievements shouldn't be the atom bomb...the Hoover Dam. Instead, they should be the Pill, the speculum, the diaphragm."
survive before you thrive, makes sense. I wonder about the veracity of the first sign of civilization idea attributed to Margaret Mead.