Evolutionary Biology

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    • 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
    • Release date: 27-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
    • By: Nick Lane
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Author Nick Lane brings together the latest research findings in the exciting field of mitochondria research to reveal how our growing understanding of mitochondria is shedding light on how complex life evolved, why sex arose, and why we age and die....

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    • A Natural History of Vertebrates
    • By: Georg F. Striedter, R. Glenn Northcutt
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Brains Through Time examines how vertebrate nervous systems evolved in conjunction with other organ systems and the planet's ecology....

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    • The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
    • By: Dan Flores
    • Narrated by: Clark Cornell
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 25-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Distinguished scholar Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the "wild new world" of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe....

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    • The Fundamentals of Evolution
    • By: Ned Huels
    • Narrated by: Nance
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 22-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Join the journey to explore the evolutionary processes that shaped life on Earth, and gain a deeper understanding of how these principles impact science, medicine, and society today.

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    • How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
    • By: Edward Slingerland
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 17-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place....

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    • The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come from, and What Makes Us Happy
    • By: William von Hippel
    • Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • In The Social Leap, William von Hippel lays out a revolutionary hypothesis, tracing human development through three critical evolutionary inflection points to explain how events in our distant past shape our lives today....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Robin Dunbar
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior - who we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our cultures....

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    • Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
    • By: David P. Barash
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P. Barash, there are even more things we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex the best minds in biology. Homo Mysterious examines a number of these evolutionary mysteries....

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    • Bird Catching, Cave Art & The Cognitive Revolution
    • By: Clive Finlayson
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a "cognitive revolution" (c. 50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing archaic Homo species....

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    • Opportunism, Resistance, Folly
    • By: John Cardina
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came about....

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    • Reflections in Natural History
    • By: Stephen Jay Gould
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: David W. Deamer
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-20
    • Language: English
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    • It seems likely that scientists will someday discover how life can emerge on habitable planets like the early Earth and Mars. In Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know, David W. Deamer has written a comprehensive guide to the origin of life that is organized in three sections....

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    • More Reflections in Natural History
    • By: Stephen Jay Gould
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The wonders and mysteries of evolutionary biology are elegantly explored by the celebrated natural history writer Stephen Jay Gould....

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    • Glimpses Into the Life and Work of Great Thinkers in Evolutionary Biology
    • By: Paycee Minaya
    • Narrated by: Phillip J Mather
    • Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
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    • This book contains brief sketches on the life and work of 22 of the greatest evolutionary thinkers in the past two centuries.....

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    • Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
    • By: Robin Baker
    • Narrated by: Jessica Wolf
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • This classic work on the rules of sex - updated for a new generation - is still as provocative as the day it was published, providing simple explanations for any and all questions about what happens in the bedroom....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Marlene Zuk, Leigh W. Simmons
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This Very Short Introduction uncovers the history of our understanding of sexual selection, from Darwin's key insights to the modern day....

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    • Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
    • By: Neil Shubin
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In his last book, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human anatomy—our hands, our jaws—and the structures in the fish that first took over land 375 million years ago....

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    • The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane
    • By: Samanth Subramanian
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-20
    • Language: English
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    • A biography of J. B. S. Haldane, the brilliant and eccentric British scientist whose innovative predictions inspired Aldous Huxley's Brave New World....

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