Eve's Seed: Biology, the Sexes, and the Course of History is a 2001 book by noted American historian and writer Robert S. McElvaine that introduced the new field of "biohistory" and presents a major reinterpretation of the human experience.

Some leading academics see Eve's Seed as a revolutionary work of major importance in how we understand human development, history, religion, and the sexes.

World historian William Hardy McNeill calls Eve's Seed "a powerful, learned and provocative work" that "is a radical revision of traditional visions of human history".

[3] In a rare case of agreement, feminist pioneer Betty Friedan and Harvard sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson both see Eve's Seed as a ground-breaking work that will change the way we see the human condition.

[3] Writing in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Joyce Appleby, past president of the American Historical Association says that Eve's Seed is written in "sparkling prose" and terms it "a bestseller waiting to be discovered".

"[4] McElvaine's concept of biohistory has been explored in articles in The New York Times[5] and the Chronicle of Higher Education,[6] and his interdisciplinary reinterpretation of the human experience has been the subject of panels at meetings of the American Historical Association, the American Anthropological Association, the International Freud Conference, the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, and the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender.