It takes a zoologist to study the weirdest animal of all: humans. And one of the biggest mysteries concerns the woman of the species — not just her habit of sharing some small plates with her man and calling it a meal, but how she got that body. Why, wondered David Bainbridge, a Cambridge-trained veterinary surgeon and zoologist, are humans the only species with curvy women? His ensuing investigation resulted in “Curvology: The Origins and Power of Female Body Shape,” a new book that examines why women are shaped the way they are and our cultural fixation therewith. “Fat is part of femininity,” Bainbridge tells The Post on the phone from...
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