Social Biology

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    • On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
    • By: Armand Marie Leroi
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it....

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    • With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
    • By: Erwin Schrödinger, Roger Penrose - foreword
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 22-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the 20th century and the distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology....

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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 Science of Beauty
    • By: Nancy Etcoff
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 19-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argues that beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminism - it's in our biology....

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    • The Biology of Being Human
    • By: Guy Leschziner
    • Narrated by: Guy Leschziner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Pride. Envy. Lust. Anger. These are the Seven Deadly Sins, the vices of humankind that define immorality, the roots of all evil in this world. These sins, balanced by the Seven Cardinal Virtues, have their origins in Greco-Roman mythology and subsequently early Christianity.

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    • A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal
    • By: Lucy Cooke
    • Narrated by: Lucy Cooke
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • What does it mean to be female? Mother, carer, the weaker sex? Think again....

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    • By: Athena Aktipis, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Athena Aktipis
    • Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • You watch a horror movie or TV series and think, “Zombies don’t really exist.” But when you consider the broader definition of zombification—the control of one entity by another—then zombies are definitely among us. And, it turns out, they have much to teach us about the world....

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    • Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
    • By: Richard Dawkins
    • Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, Gillian Somerscales
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • Richard Dawkins is one of science's greatest communicators. This anthology of more than 40 pieces is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power and the glory of science....

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    • The Story of the Hormone That Dominates and Divides Us
    • By: Carole Hooven
    • Narrated by: Rachel Perry
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Through riveting personal stories and the latest research, Harvard evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven shows how testosterone drives the behaviour of the sexes apart and how understanding the science behind this hormone is empowering for all....

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    • How Our Biology Shaped World History
    • By: Lewis Dartnell
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Being Human is history made flesh. It will change the way you see the world....

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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 231 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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    • 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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    • Debunking the Myths About Sex and Identity in Our Society
    • By: Debra W. Soh
    • Narrated by: Debra Soh
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 437 ratings
    • International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular gender myths in this scientific examination of the many facets of gender identity that “is not only eminently reasonable and beautifully-written, it is brave and vital"....

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    • The Unity of Knowledge
    • By: Edward O. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
    • Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities....

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    • How We Can Recover Our Bond with the Natural World
    • By: Karen Armstrong
    • Narrated by: Karen Armstrong
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Sacred Nature is a book about 'deep ecology': it is about the most profound connections between humans and the natural world....

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    • A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
    • By: Sue Black
    • Narrated by: Angela Dawe
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, renowned forensic scientist Professor Sue Black presents a deeply humane introduction to the reality of death in our lives, for anyone seeking a clear-eyed guide to a subject that touches us all....

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    • The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
    • By: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: David Baker
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same - a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences....

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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 Science of Sunlight and How it Shapes Our Bodies and Minds
    • By: Linda Geddes
    • Narrated by: Linda Geddes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Since the dawn of time, humans have worshipped the sun. And with good reason. Our biology is set up to work in partnership with the sun....

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    • By: Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins - foreword
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began....

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