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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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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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The 10,000 Year Explosion
- How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
- By: Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years.
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conflation of sound genetics with unsound complex behaviour
- By Jack on 03-10-24
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The 10,000 Year Explosion
- How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 18-01-22
- Language: English
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Mother Nature
- Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
- By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- Narrated by: Helen Stern
- Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
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Maternal instinct - the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children - has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature. But is it? In this provocative, groundbreaking audiobook, renowned anthropologist (and mother) Sarah Blaffer Hrdy shares a radical new vision of motherhood and its crucial role in human evolution. Hrdy strips away stereotypes and gender-biased myths to demonstrate that traditional views of maternal behavior are essentially wishful thinking codified as objective observation.
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Hrdy's gift
- By Maria on 07-10-15
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Mother Nature
- Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
- Narrated by: Helen Stern
- Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 27-01-14
- Language: English
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Hormonal
- The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones -- How They Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, Influence Our Choices, and Make Us Wiser
- By: Martie Haselton
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs
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Did you know women walk more, eat less, socialize more, meet more men, dance more, and flirt more when they're ovulating? Or that PMS may have evolved to get rid of boyfriends with unfit sperm? Behind the "fickle" differences in what women find sexy about men, or what they like to wear, there's a hidden adaptive intelligence shaped over eons. Rather than making women irrational - as the conventional and irredeemably sexist wisdom goes - the female hormonal cycle has been exquisitely fine-tuned to give women the advantages they needed to succeed in our ancestral environments, and perhaps also today.
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Daren Knight on 28-08-21
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On the Origin of Species
- Penguin Classics
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
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On the Origin of Species is one of the most important and influential books of its time and remains one of the most significant contributions to philosophical and scientific thought. The theories Darwin sets out here had an immediate and profound impact on the literature and philosophical thought of his contemporaries and continue to provoke thought and debate today. Written for the general public of the 1850s, On the Origin of Species laid out an evolutionary view of the world which challenged contemporary beliefs about divine providence and the fixity of species.
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On the Origin of Species
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 26-09-19
- Language: English
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful
- The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
- By: Sean B. Carroll
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo--Evolutionary Developmental Biology--is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the pages of his rich and riveting book, Sean B. Carroll explains how we are discovering that complex life is ironically much simpler than anyone ever expected.
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful
- The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 25-06-09
- Language: English
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A World Beyond Physics
- The Emergence and Evolution of Life
- By: Stuart A. Kauffman
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
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Among the estimated 100 billion solar systems in the known universe, evolving life is surely abundant. That evolution is a process of "becoming" in each case. Since Newton, we have turned to physics to assess reality. But physics alone cannot tell us where we came from, how we arrived, and why our world has evolved past the point of unicellular organisms to an extremely complex biosphere.
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Muito obrigado pela explicação
- By Anonymous User on 30-03-24
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A World Beyond Physics
- The Emergence and Evolution of Life
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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Irresistible
- How Cuteness Wired Our Brains and Conquered the World
- By: Joshua Paul Dale
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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Cuteness is an area where culture and biology get tangled up. Seeing a cute animal triggers some of the most powerful psychological instincts we have – the ones that elicit our care and protection – but there is a deeper story behind the broad appeal of Japanese cats and saccharine greetings cards. Joshua Paul Dale, a pioneer in the burgeoning field of cuteness studies, explains how the cute aesthetic spread around the globe, from pop brands to Lolita fashion, kids' cartoons and the unstoppable rise of Hello Kitty.
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Irresistible
- How Cuteness Wired Our Brains and Conquered the World
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-02-24
- 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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Darwin's Origin of Species
- A Biography
- By: Janet Browne
- Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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Charles Darwin's foremost biographer, Janet Browne, delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of the Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin's seminal work is nearly as controversial today.
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Worthy but dull
- By Allan on 16-02-08
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Darwin's Origin of Species
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
- Series: Books That Changed the World
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-03-07
- Language: English
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Beasts
- What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good Evil
- By: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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There are two supreme predators on the planet with the most complex brains in nature: humans and orcas. In the 20th century alone, one of these animals killed 200 million members of its own species, the other killed none. Jeffrey Masson’s fascinating new book begins here: There is something different about us. In Beasts he demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the "wild" is mostly a matter of projection. We link the basest human behavior to animals, to "beasts" ("he behaved no better than a beast"), and claim the high ground for our species.
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Truly Wonderful
- By CMS on 19-06-22
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Beasts
- What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good Evil
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-03-14
- Language: English
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Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods
- Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
- By: E. Fuller Torrey
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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In this book, E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods locates the origin of gods within the human brain, arguing that religious belief is a by-product of evolution. Based on an idea originally proposed by Charles Darwin, Torrey marshals evidence that the emergence of gods was an incidental consequence of several evolutionary factors.
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very interesting book
- By Anon on 06-12-22
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Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods
- Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 08-01-21
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Speech
- By: Tom Wolfe
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.
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The Kingdom of Speech
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 30-08-16
- Language: English
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Why Is Sex Fun?
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
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A fascinating, bite-sized insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we are different from the animal kingdom. Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or year, including when the female is pregnant, beyond her reproductive years, or between her fertile cycles? Why are human females one of the few mammals to go through menopause?
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Why Is Sex Fun?
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 26-03-15
- Language: English
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The Human Advantage
- A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
- By: Suzana Herculano-Houzel
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25 percent of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cousins, the great apes, behind. So the human brain is special, right? Wrong, according to Suzana Herculano-Houzel. Humans have developed cognitive abilities that outstrip those of all other animals but not because we are evolutionary outliers.
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The Human Advantage
- A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 16-06-16
- Language: English
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The Invaders
- How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
- By: Pat Shipman
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe - descendants of a much earlier migration of the African genus Homo. But when modern humans eventually made their way to Europe 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals suddenly vanished.
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Very Educational and worth the listen
- By Craig K de Sloan on 22-10-23
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The Invaders
- How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 19-05-15
- Language: English
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Great Adaptations
- Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved
- By: Kenneth Catania
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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From star-nosed moles that have super-sensing snouts to electric eels that paralyze their prey, animals possess unique and extraordinary abilities. In Great Adaptations, Kenneth Catania presents an entertaining and engaging look at some of nature's most remarkable creatures. Telling the story of his biological detective work, Catania sheds light on the mysteries behind the behaviors of tentacled snakes, tiny shrews, zombie-making wasps, and more.
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Great Adaptations
- Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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Life
- The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science
- By: John Brockman
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain, Antony Ferguson, Jonathan Yen
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more rapidly than at any point in human history, from the extraordinary decoding of DNA to the controversial emergence of biotechnology. Featuring pioneering biologists, geneticists, physicists, and science writers, Life explains just how far we've come - and takes a brilliantly educated guess at where we're heading.
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Life
- The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain, Antony Ferguson, Jonathan Yen
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 27-12-15
- Language: English
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The Human Instinct
- By: Kenneth R. Miller
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Lately, the most passionate advocates of the theory of evolution seem to present it as bad news. Scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, and Sam Harris tell us that our most intimate actions, thoughts, and values are mere byproducts of thousands of generations of mindless adaptation. We are just one species among multitudes and therefore no more significant than any other living creature. Now comes Brown University biologist Kenneth R. Miller to make the case that this view betrays a gross misunderstanding of evolution.
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The Human Instinct
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 17-04-18
- Language: English
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