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Lifespan
- Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To
- By: Dr David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrated by: Dr David A. Sinclair
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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For decades, the medical community has looked to a variety of reasons for why we age, and the consensus is that no-one dies of old age; they die of age-related diseases....
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Hard to tell hopes from facts
- By Anonymous User on 28-11-2019
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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Book contains out of date information and opinions
- By Anonymous User on 14-11-2019
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A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century
- By: Heather Heying
- Narrated by: Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes and what we can do about it....
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Past can help our future.
- By Anonymous User on 11-10-2021
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The Selfish Gene
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
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Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it....
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Narated by the man himself.
- By Brendan Everingham on 07-04-2015
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Lifespan
- Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To
- By: Dr David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrated by: Dr David A. Sinclair
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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For decades, the medical community has looked to a variety of reasons for why we age, and the consensus is that no-one dies of old age; they die of age-related diseases....
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Hard to tell hopes from facts
- By Anonymous User on 28-11-2019
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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Book contains out of date information and opinions
- By Anonymous User on 14-11-2019
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A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century
- By: Heather Heying
- Narrated by: Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes and what we can do about it....
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Past can help our future.
- By Anonymous User on 11-10-2021
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The Selfish Gene
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
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Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it....
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Narated by the man himself.
- By Brendan Everingham on 07-04-2015
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The Secret of Life
- Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
- By: Howard Markel
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
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One of our most prominent medical historians presents an authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure....
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The Code Breaker
- Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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The best-selling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how the pioneering scientist Jennifer Doudna, along with her colleagues and rivals, launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases....
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highlights a conversation that society has to have
- By Doug on 17-12-2021
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- By: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte weaves together the history and evolution of our mammal forebears with stories of the scientists whose fieldwork and discoveries underlie our knowledge....
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When Men Behave Badly
- The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
- By: David M. Buss
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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“An exceptional book” (Helen Fisher) by a leading evolutionary psychologist and sex researcher that lays out a new theory of sexual conflict, exposing the roots of the dangerous dynamics that underpin men’s predatory behavior - and what can be done to address it....
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when men Behave Badly
- By Kindle Customer on 07-03-2022
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The Four Horsemen
- The Discussion That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
- By: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennett, and others
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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Known as the ‘four horsemen’ of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the 21st century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging....
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Loved it but
- By daniel on 19-02-2019
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- The Untold Story of a Lost World
- By: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Sixty-six million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth....
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A summary without a thesis
- By Amazon Customer on 17-07-2018
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The Awakened Ape
- A Biohacker's Guide to Evolutionary Fitness, Natural Ecstasy, and Stress-Free Living
- By: Jevan Pradas
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Perpetually bored, anxious, fatigued, and overweight, modern society has failed to deliver the happiness it promised. The remedy, Jevan Pradas argues, is in a unique synthesis of a Paleolithic lifestyle and Buddhist meditation....
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A truly enlightening read
- By Kodie on 31-05-2022
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Otherlands
- A World in the Making
- By: Dr Thomas Halliday
- Narrated by: Adetomiwa Edun
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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In this mesmerizing debut, award-winning palaeontologist Thomas Halliday gives us a breath-taking up close encounter with worlds that are normally unimaginably distant....
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Behave
- By: Robert M. Sapolsky
- Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
- Length: 26 hrs and 27 mins
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Why do human beings behave as they do? We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other? Find out...
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Breathtaking
- By Peter on 17-04-2021
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The Genetic Age
- Our Perilous Quest to Edit Life
- By: Matthew Cobb
- Length: Not Yet Known
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The Genetic Age shows the astonishing, world-changing potential of the new genetics and the possible threats it poses, sifting between fantasy and the reality when it comes to both benefits and dangers....
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A Series of Fortunate Events
- Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
- By: Sean B. Carroll
- Narrated by: Sean B. Carroll
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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In this audiobook, acclaimed writer and biologist Sean B. Carroll narrates the rollicking, awe-inspiring story of the surprising power of chance in our lives and the world....
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I loved this book
- By John on 07-05-2022
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The Case Against Reality
- Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
- By: Donald Hoffman
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally....
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Out there.
- By Anonymous User on 06-07-2020
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Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test
- How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters
- By: Marlene Zuk
- Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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A lively exploration of animal behavior in all its glorious complexity, whether in tiny wasps, lumbering elephants, or ourselves....
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The Science of Animal Welfare
- Understanding What Animals Want
- By: Marian Stamp Dawkins
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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What is animal welfare? This concise and accessible guide is for anyone who is interested in animals and who has wondered how we can assess their welfare scientifically....
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The Fossil Hunter
- Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
- By: Shelley Emling
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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Mary Anning was only 12 years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton - of an ichthyosaur - while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct....
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Fascinating subject told well
- By GTB on 27-10-2021
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Humanology
- A Scientist’s Guide to Our Amazing Existence
- By: Luke O’Neill
- Narrated by: Ruairi Conaghan
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Discover the answers to 20 burning questions about life and our amazing existence with Ireland’s most exciting scientist, Professor Luke O’Neill. Humanology is a humbling reminder that we’re just a small speck in a big universe - so sit back and embrace the adventure....
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The Better Half
- On the Genetic Superiority of Women
- By: Sharon Moalem
- Narrated by: Sharon Moalem
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life....
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The Third Chimpanzee
- The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
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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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A new perspective on so many things human
- By Garry on 10-11-2016
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Beasts Before Us
- The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
- By: Elsa Panciroli
- Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but over the last 20 years, scientists have uncovered new fossils and used new technologies that have upended this story....
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
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The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from best-selling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee....
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Very interesting and relatively accessibly presented
- By Emily on 21-06-2022
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The Greatest Show on Earth
- The Evidence for Evolution
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
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Richard Dawkins takes on creationists, including followers of 'Intelligent Design' and all those who question the fact of evolution through natural selection....
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Brilliant and gripping.
- By Brenda on 02-02-2016
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Drunk
- How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
- By: Edward Slingerland
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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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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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....
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amazing
- By Graham on 23-06-2022
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Life on Earth 40th Anniversary Edition
- By: Sir David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the book's first publication, David Attenborough has revised Life on Earth. This special anniversary edition provides a fitting tribute to an enduring wildlife classic....
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Dave
- By Katrena on 06-11-2018