Angier's 'Names Wom An Intimate Geography'

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Being a female and having a genuine interest towards the observation and exploration of the women’s peculiarities, Natalie Angier decides to reveal her core findings to the entire world. This intention makes her write a book that Angier names Woman: An Intimate Geography. The title itself prepares the reader to perceive and comprehend the insights that were inherited from the ancestors and stored deep inside human’s consciousness. The author emphasizes the dialectic nature of a female being: a divinity versus a sinner. According to Angier, all scientific and philosophical endeavors to describe the paradox of ambiguous processes taking place in a woman’s body are only inferior attempts in comparison to the true greatness of a female organism. The author’s view differs from those approaches in two critical ways. Firstly, throughout the entire introduction and first chapter, Angier appeals to her…show more content…
This approach is applied to random chances of evolutional advancement since not all changes are beneficial and can help certain species to compete. Instead, Natalie Angier accentuates that female cells are wise enough to renew the genes or choose “friendly” genetic material. It means that the changes are not random, but rather are allowed to happen by some wise power in order to serve the evolutional purposes. In this way, female’s body inhibits the development of undesirable and/or distorted DNA’s structures. Consider the case, the author reveals an excellent example showing that if the chimpanzee’s DNA could be carried right into the female’s ova, there would be great chances to get a human-chimpanzee hybrid. Nevertheless, in terms of natural conception, the shell of the ova would not allow a male chimpanzee sex cell in because it would be considered as unfriendly genetic material (Angier,

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