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Pure Human
- The Hidden Truth of Our Divinity, Power, and Destiny
- By: Gregg Braden
- Narrated by: Gregg Braden
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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In an age where technologies such as AI threaten to supplant human intelligence, an award-winning scientist offers a radical new view of our innate human technology and what we're truly capable of.
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mind opening
- By Kindle Customer on 12-02-2025
By: Gregg Braden
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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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good research, too many words
- By PatienceAllergy on 23-03-2017
By: Jared Diamond
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The Moral Animal
- 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
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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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not what I expected
- By SamLekker89 on 20-11-2022
By: Robert Wright
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The Believing Brain
- From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
- By: Michael Shermer
- Narrated by: Michael Shermer
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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The world’s best known skeptic and critical thinker presents his comprehensive theory on how beliefs are born, formed, nourished, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished....
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Started strong but went off on a tangent
- By Chris Burrows on 11-10-2021
By: Michael Shermer
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The Story of the Human Body
- Evolution, Health, and Disease
- By: Daniel E. Lieberman
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years....
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Answering questions you have never asked!!
- By Tom Reilly on 03-08-2015
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The Ape That Understood the Universe
- How the Mind and Culture Evolve
- By: Steve Stewart-Williams
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
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The Ape That Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species?
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Pure Human
- The Hidden Truth of Our Divinity, Power, and Destiny
- By: Gregg Braden
- Narrated by: Gregg Braden
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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In an age where technologies such as AI threaten to supplant human intelligence, an award-winning scientist offers a radical new view of our innate human technology and what we're truly capable of.
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mind opening
- By Kindle Customer on 12-02-2025
By: Gregg Braden
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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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good research, too many words
- By PatienceAllergy on 23-03-2017
By: Jared Diamond
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The Moral Animal
- 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
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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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not what I expected
- By SamLekker89 on 20-11-2022
By: Robert Wright
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The Believing Brain
- From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
- By: Michael Shermer
- Narrated by: Michael Shermer
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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The world’s best known skeptic and critical thinker presents his comprehensive theory on how beliefs are born, formed, nourished, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished....
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Started strong but went off on a tangent
- By Chris Burrows on 11-10-2021
By: Michael Shermer
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The Story of the Human Body
- Evolution, Health, and Disease
- By: Daniel E. Lieberman
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years....
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Answering questions you have never asked!!
- By Tom Reilly on 03-08-2015
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The Ape That Understood the Universe
- How the Mind and Culture Evolve
- By: Steve Stewart-Williams
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
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The Ape That Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species?
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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
By: Richard Dawkins
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
- By: David Reich
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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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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Makes you think - integrity and good science
- By Stephanie R Martin on 03-01-2021
By: David Reich
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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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A Story of Us
- A New Look at Human Evolution
- By: Lesley Newson, Pete Richerson
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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In A Story of Us, Newson and Richerson take listeners through seven stages of human evolution, beginning seven million years ago with the apes that were the ancestors of humans and today's chimps and bonobos. The story ends in the present day and offers a glimpse into the future....
By: Lesley Newson, and others
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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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complexity simplified
- By Anonymous User on 04-09-2024
By: Sean B. Carroll
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Beaks, Bones and Bird Songs
- How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior
- By: Roger Lederer
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers....
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brilliant bird facts
- By Jennifer L. Bergin on 21-10-2024
By: Roger Lederer
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Minds Make Societies
- How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
- By: Pascal Boyer
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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Integrating recent insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and other fields, Pascal Boyer offers precise models of why humans engage in social behaviors such as forming families, tribes, and nations, or creating gender roles....
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A must listen for anyone interested in social and behavioural sciences
- By G Peilon on 17-03-2024
By: Pascal Boyer
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The Serengeti Rules
- The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
- By: Sean B. Carroll
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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One of the most important revelations about the natural world is that everything is regulated....
By: Sean B. Carroll
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The Science of Self-Empowerment
- Awakening the New Human Story
- By: Gregg Braden
- Narrated by: Gregg Braden
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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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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Transformative
- By Merrilee Baker on 04-11-2018
By: Gregg Braden
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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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No PDF with images
- By Anonymous User on 23-10-2019
By: Donald Hoffman
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Against the Grain
- A Deep History of the Earliest States
- By: James C. Scott
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Find out....
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Irritating droning narrator. Great thesis. Book could do with further to reduce incessant replication of arguments.
- By Charlie on 24-03-2018
By: James C. Scott
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Evolutionary Psychology
- An Audio Guide
- By: Robin Dunbar, John Lycett, Louise Barrett
- Narrated by: Miranda Nation
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Written specifically for the general listener, and for entry-level students, it covers all the most important elements of this interdisciplinary subject, from the role of evolution in our selection of partner, to the influence of genetics on parenting.
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A Helpful Perspective
- By Anonymous User on 10-08-2020
By: Robin Dunbar, and others
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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....
By: Luke O’Neill
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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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A depressing tale of human failings.
- By Judith on 18-11-2024
By: David M. Buss
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Icons of Evolution
- Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong
- By: Jonathan Wells
- Narrated by: Barry Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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Everything you were taught about evolution is wrong....
By: Jonathan Wells
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The Slow Moon Climbs
- The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause
- By: Susan Mattern
- Narrated by: Jennifer Woodward
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
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The Slow Moon Climbs casts menopause, at last, in the positive light it deserves - not only as an essential life stage, but also as a key factor in the history of human flourishing....
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Absolutely fascinating read.
- By Jennifer Harrington on 02-07-2020
By: Susan Mattern
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Return of the God Hypothesis
- Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe
- By: Stephen C. Meyer
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
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The New York Times best-selling author of Darwin’s Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology....
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A book that will stand the test of time.
- By Anonymous User on 20-09-2021
By: Stephen C. Meyer
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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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Highly recommend this book.
- By Gaurang on 27-07-2023
By: Jevan Pradas
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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
By: Jared Diamond
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Human Evolution, 2nd Edition
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Bernard Wood
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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In this Very Short Introduction, Bernard Wood traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the 18th century to the very latest fossil finds....
By: Bernard Wood
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The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being
- Evolution and the Making of Us
- By: Dr Alice Roberts
- Narrated by: Dr Alice Roberts
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Alice Roberts takes you on the most incredible journey, revealing your path from a single cell to a complex embryo to a living, breathing, thinking person....
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An excellent explanation of the why!
- By Anonymous User on 15-01-2024
By: Dr Alice Roberts
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The Dragons of Eden
- Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Ann Druyan
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast....
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I Loved the Dragon of Eden
- By ShazBoo BookOwl on 23-02-2024
By: Carl Sagan
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The Denisovans: A Captivating Guide to the Extinct Cousins of Neanderthals Who Lived Across Asia during the Paleolithic Period
- Exploring the Past
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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In 2008, scientists found evidence of a new ancient human species—the Denisovans. While they lived at the same time as the Neanderthals, the Denisovans were different in surprising ways. The most amazing part? They left traces of their DNA in us.
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Genetics for Dummies
- 3rd Edition
- By: Tara Rodden Robinson PhD, Lisa Spock PhD CGC
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
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This new edition of Genetics for Dummies serves as a perfect course supplement for students pursuing degrees in the sciences. It provides science lovers of all skill levels with easy-to-follow and easy-to-understand information about this exciting and constantly evolving field....
By: Tara Rodden Robinson PhD, and others