Human Social Evolution Anthropology

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    • How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
    • By: Joseph Henrich
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies....

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    • The Evolution of Human Sexuality
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • There's no one better qualified than Jared Diamond to explain the evolutionary forces that operated on our ancestors to make us sexually different. With wit and examples, he explains how our sexuality has been as crucial as our large brains and upright posture in our rise to human status....

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    • The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • Jared Diamond explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world...and the means to irrevocably destroy it....

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    • How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
    • By: Leonard Shlain
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-20
    • Language: English
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    • Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality....

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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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    • An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid
    • By: Gregory Forth
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, anthropologist Gregory Forth came across people talking about half-apelike, half-humanlike creatures that once lived in a cave on the slopes of a nearby volcano....

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    • How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
    • By: Brian Fagan
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Best-selling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling....

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    • Busting Myths About Human Nature
    • By: Agustín Fuentes
    • Narrated by: Korey Jackson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 27-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields, including anthropology, biology, and psychology, Fuentes devises a myth-busting toolkit to dismantle persistent fallacies about the validity of biological races, the innateness of violence, and the nature of monogamy, sex, and gender....

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    • By: Lee Berger, John Hawks
    • Narrated by: Lee Berger
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
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    • In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens....

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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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    • The New Science of Human Evolution
    • By: Eugene E. Harris
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In Ancestors in Our Genome, molecular anthropologist Eugene E. Harris presents us with a complete and up-to-date account of the evolution of the human genome and our species....

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    • How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
    • By: Annalee Newitz
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes....

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    • How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
    • By: Gaia Vince
    • Narrated by: Gaia Vince
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Humans now live longer and better than ever before, and we are the most populous big animal on earth. Meanwhile, our closest living relatives, the now-endangered chimpanzees, continue to live as they have for millions of years....

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    • From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved
    • By: Bret Stetka
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 15-07-22
    • Language: English
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    • In A History of the Human Brain, popular science writer Bret Stetka reveals how the evolution of the brain made us human—and where it may lead us to next....

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    • Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
    • By: Michael Shermer
    • Narrated by: Michael Shermer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The Mind of the Market will change the way we think about the economics of everyday life....

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    • What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
    • By: Adam Rutherford
    • Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Racist pseudoscience is on the rise - fueling hatred, feeding nationalism, and seeping into our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even the well-intentioned repeat stereotypes based on "science", because cutting-edge genetics are hard to grasp - and easy to distort....

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    • The Evolution of Human Domination
    • By: Kirkpatrick Sale
    • Narrated by: Gary Regal
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct....

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