

What makes breasts so mercurial and so vulnerable? The author, a science journalist sets out to uncover the latest science from the fields of anthropology, biology, and medicine in this expose about the breast, an incredible life-giving organ and its imperiled modern fate Increasingly, the odds are stacked against us in the struggle against breast cancer, even among men.

They are getting bigger, arriving earlier, and attracting newfangled chemicals. Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece.
