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Forget everything you thought you knew about female animals

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Female lions are one of many species we've gotten all wrong, according to Cooke.

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.

From her new book “Bitch: On the Female of the Species”:

Cooke joins us for some zoology myth-busting.

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Kathryn Fink
Kathryn Fink is a producer with NPR's All Things Considered.