Social Science Genetics

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    • Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Jamie Metzl
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives-sex, war, love, and death....

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    • The Evolution of Minds
    • By: Daniel C. Dennett
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists....

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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 10 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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    • Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
    • By: Kathryn Paige Harden
    • Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different....

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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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    • Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict
    • By: Donna Hicks PhD
    • Narrated by: Margaret Strom
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The desire for dignity is universal and powerful. It is a motivating force behind all human interaction - in families, communities, the business world, and relationships at the international level....

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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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    • A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity Are Revolutionizing Our View of Human Nature
    • By: Douglas T. Kenrick
    • Narrated by: Fred Stella
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 26-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Social psychologist Douglas Kenrick fuses evolutionary psychology and cognitive science to create a coherent story of human nature....

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    • How Science Is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
    • By: Tom Higham
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Fifty thousand years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham....

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    • By: David Reich
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • Drawing upon revolutionary findings and unparalleled scientific studies, Who We Are and How We Got Here is a captivating glimpse into humankind - where we came from and what that says about our lives today....

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    • History, Science, Race and Reality
    • By: Adam Rutherford
    • Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 742 ratings
    • How to Argue with a Racist dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics can and can't tell us about human difference. It is a vital manifesto for a 21st-century understanding of human evolution and variation....

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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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    • Evolution and the Meanings of Life
    • By: Daniel C. Dennett
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 27 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection....

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    • By: Ian Tattersall
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution.

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    • The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
    • By: Adam Rutherford
    • Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Control is an urgently needed discussion exploring the science, history and future of eugenics, and the practice of population control by selective procreation....

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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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    • Awakening the New Human Story
    • By: Gregg Braden
    • Narrated by: Gregg Braden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author and 2018 Templeton Award nominee Gregg Braden crosses the traditional boundaries of science and spirituality to answer the timeless question at the core of our existence....

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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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    • Hunting for Yetis, Mongolian Deathworms and Other Not-So-Mythical Monsters
    • By: Richard Freeman
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Adventures in Cryptozoology, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Explore the world through its most unlikely creatures: Cryptozoology, the study of hidden, monstrous, and legendary animals, is truly the art of discovering the unknown....

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    • Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
    • By: Robert Wright
    • Narrated by: Greg Thornton
    • Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • Are men born to cheat? Does monogamy serve women's interests? Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics....

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