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Life as We Made It
- How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined - and Redefined - Nature
- By: Beth Shapiro
- Narrated by: Beth Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Once, we humans could only observe evolution. Suddenly, we had conquered it. And yet, in Life as We Made It, evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro argues that - despite how amazing our new technologies are - our ability to alter the course of evolution isn’t new. What is new is that where once we shaped evolution through brute force, we can now do it as artisans. That power comes not a moment too soon. If we are going to survive in the next few centuries, we must revise the book of life.
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Life as We Made It
- How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined - and Redefined - Nature
- Narrated by: Beth Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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The Serengeti Rules
- The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
- By: Sean B. Carroll
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean B. Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answers to such simple yet profoundly important questions.
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Very poorly researched
- By Anonymous User on 21-03-23
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The Serengeti Rules
- The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 25-01-17
- Language: English
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- By: Nicholas Wade
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory. Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand years - to be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes.
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-05-14
- Language: English
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After the Dinosaurs
- The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past Series)
- By: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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The fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for their feathered descendants). In their place evolved an enormous variety of land creatures, especially mammals, which in their way were every bit as remarkable as their Mesozoic cousins. The Age of Mammals, the Cenozoic Era, has never had its Jurassic Park, but it was an amazing time in earth's history, populated by a wonderful assortment of bizarre animals. The rapid evolution of thousands of species of mammals brought forth many incredible creatures—including our own ancestors.
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After the Dinosaurs
- The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past Series)
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 21-02-23
- Language: English
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SPEECH! How Language Made Us Human
- By: Simon Prentis
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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What makes us human? Why are we the only animals who wear clothes, drive cars, trawl the internet, and fly helicopters on Mars? It’s all because we’ve learnt to talk, yet remarkably, we still don’t know how we did it. Speech! suggests an answer that’s been hiding in plain sight - the simple yet radical shift that turned our analog grunts and shrieks into words. But, its consequences are far from simple: being able to share ideas through language was an evolutionary tipping point - it allowed us to link up our minds.
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fascinating
- By David Halgoa on 11-10-22
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SPEECH! How Language Made Us Human
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 13-12-21
- Language: English
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Biogeography
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Mark V. Lomolino
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Biogeography is the study of geographic variation in all characteristics of life - ranging from genetic, morphological, and behavioral variation among regional populations of a species, to geographic trends in diversity of entire communities across our planet's surface. From the ancient hunters and gatherers to the earliest naturalists, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and scientists today, the search for patterns in life has provided insights that proved invaluable for understanding the natural world.
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Biogeography
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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Evolution
- An Audio Guide
- By: Burton Guttman
- Narrated by: Dave Ferguson
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Covering everything from fossilised dinosaurs to intelligent apes, this is an accessible guide to one of the most important scientific theories of all time. Burt Guttman assumes no prior scientific knowledge on the part of the reader, and explains each of the key ideas and concepts, including natural selection, genetics, and the evolution of animal behaviour, in a lively and informative way. This audiobook provides the perfect starting point for understanding what evolution is and why it matters.
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Evolution
- An Audio Guide
- Narrated by: Dave Ferguson
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 31-05-12
- Language: English
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How to Clone a Mammoth
- The Science of De-Extinction
- By: Beth Shapiro
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks listeners through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction.
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Informative and inspiring
- By Sarah C on 28-09-22
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How to Clone a Mammoth
- The Science of De-Extinction
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 05-04-15
- Language: English
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Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression
- By: Hector A. Garcia
- Narrated by: Seth Andrews
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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This book uses evolutionary psychology as a lens to explain religious violence and oppression. The author, a clinical psychologist, examines religious scriptures, rituals, and canon law, highlighting the many ways in which our evolutionary legacy has shaped the development of religion and continues to profoundly influence its expression.
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great work
- By Karol Machalski on 28-11-19
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Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression
- Narrated by: Seth Andrews
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 23-10-18
- Language: English
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The Philadelphia Chromosome
- A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
- By: Jessica Wapner
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines, reconstructing the crucial breakthroughs, explaining the science behind them, and giving due to the dozens of researchers, doctors, and patients whose curiosity and determination restored the promise of a future to the more than 50,000 people diagnosed each year with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).
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dull as ditch water
- By sarah page on 24-01-16
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The Philadelphia Chromosome
- A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 14-05-13
- Language: English
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DNA Is Not Destiny
- The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship Between You and Your Genes
- By: Steven J. Heine
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Around 250,000 people have had their genomes sequenced, and scientists expect that number to rise to one billion by 2025. Professor Steven J. Heine argues that the first thing we will do on receiving our DNA test results is to misinterpret them completely. Despite breathless (often lightly researched) media coverage about newly discovered "cancer" or "divorce" or "IQ" genes, the prospect of a DNA test forecasting how your life is going to turn out is vanishingly small.
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DNA Is Not Destiny
- The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship Between You and Your Genes
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 18-04-17
- Language: English
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Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- By: Frans de Waal
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes.
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Informative, but often dry
- By OtterSpotter on 02-02-17
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Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 16-07-10
- Language: English
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The Rational Animal
- How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think
- By: Douglas T. Kenrick, Vladas Griskevicius
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Why do three out of four professional football players go bankrupt? How can illiterate jungle dwellers pass a test that tricks Harvard philosophers? And why do billionaires work so hard - only to give their hard-earned money away? When it comes to making decisions, the classic view is that humans are eminently rational. But growing evidence suggests instead that our choices are often irrational, biased, and occasionally even moronic. Which view is right - or is there another possibility?
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The Rational Animal
- How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 20-09-13
- Language: English
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DNA Demystified
- Unravelling the Double Helix
- By: Alan McHughen
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
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DNA Demystified satisfies the public appetite for and curiosity about DNA and genetics. The book begins with the basic groundwork and a brief history of DNA and genetics. Chapters then cover newsworthy topics, including DNA fingerprinting, using DNA in forensic analyses, and identifying cold-case criminals. For listeners intrigued by the proliferation of at-home DNA tests, the text includes fascinating explorations of genetic genealogy and family tree construction.
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DNA Demystified
- Unravelling the Double Helix
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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Muscle
- The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement
- By: Roy A. Meals MD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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An entertaining deep dive into muscle, from the discovery of human anatomy to the latest science of strength training.
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Muscle
- The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 12-09-23
- Language: English
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The Better Half
- On the Genetic Superiority of Women
- By: Sharon Moalem
- Narrated by: Sharon Moalem
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life. Here are some facts: Women live longer than men. They have stronger immune systems. They're better at fighting cancer and surviving famine and even see the world in a wider variety of colours. They are simply stronger than men at every stage of life. Why is this? And why are we taught the opposite?
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absolutely fascinating
- By Kelly Hassard on 27-02-24
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The Better Half
- On the Genetic Superiority of Women
- Narrated by: Sharon Moalem
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 07-04-20
- Language: English
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The Cambrian Period
- The History and Legacy of the Start of Complex Life on Earth
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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The early history of Earth covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries, and even millennia become virtually meaningless. Instead, paleontologists and scientists who study geochronology divide time into periods and eras. The current view of science is that Earth is around 4.6 billion years old, and the first four billion years of its development are known as the Precambrian period.
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However it is worth reading
- By renato on 23-01-21
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The Cambrian Period
- The History and Legacy of the Start of Complex Life on Earth
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 23-12-20
- Language: English
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
- or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 23 hrs and 9 mins
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The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the 19th century and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. Though, in fact, little read, most people know what it says—at least they think they do. The Origin of Species was the first mature and persuasive work to explain how species change through the process of natural selection. Upon its publication, the book began to transform attitudes about society and religion.
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A fantastically interesting 'read'
- By Konrad on 13-07-13
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
- or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 23 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-10-11
- Language: English
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The Stem Cell Hope
- How Stem Cell Medicine Can Change Our Lives
- By: Alice Park
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Few people know much about stem cell research beyond the ethical questions raised by using embryos. But in the last decade, stem cell research has made huge advances toward eliminating some of our most intractable diseases. Now this sweeping and accessible book introduces us to this cutting-edge science, which will revolutionize medicine and change the way we think about and treat disease.
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The Stem Cell Hope
- How Stem Cell Medicine Can Change Our Lives
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 06-06-11
- Language: English
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Evolution
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Brian Charlesworth, Deborah Charlesworth
- Narrated by: Kevin Young
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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Brian and Deborah Charlesworth provide a clear and concise summary of the process of evolution by natural selection, and how natural selection gives rise to adaptations and eventually, over many generations, to new species. They introduce the central concepts of the field of evolutionary biology, as they have developed since Darwin and Wallace on the subject, over 140 years ago, and discuss some of the remaining questions regarding processes.
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Evolution
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Kevin Young
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-06-21
- Language: English
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