Biology

Gut

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Giulia Enders
• Narrated By Katy Sobey

The key to living a happier, healthier life is inside us. Our gut is almost as important to us as our brain or our heart, yet we know very little about how it works. In Gut, Giulia Enders shows that rather than the utilitarian and - let's be honest - somewhat embarrassing body part we imagine it to be, it is one of the most complex, important, and even miraculous parts of our anatomy.

The Selfish Gene

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Richard Dawkins
• Narrated By Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward

Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands to rethink their beliefs about life.

Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We LIve and Work

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
• Narrated By Fred Sanders
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The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving, in this groundbreaking book in the vein of Daniel Pink's Drive and Charles Duhigg's Smarter Faster Better.

Cosmos

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Carl Sagan
• Narrated By LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and others

Cosmos is one of the best-selling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.

The Biology of Belief

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Bruce H. Lipton
• Narrated By Bruce H. Lipton

Since the publication of The Biology of Belief, Dr. Bruce Lipton has received widespread acclaim as one of the most accessible and knowledgeable voices of "new biology". The science is called epigenetics – a revolutionary field that shows us how the energy of consciousness is as important in shaping life on earth as DNA and chemistry.

The Brain that Changes Itself

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Norman Doidge
• Narrated By Jim Bond

An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. In this revolutionary look at the brain, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., provides an introduction to both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they’ve transformed.

Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
• Narrated By Allyson Johnson, Jonathan Davis, Christopher Ryan

Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science - as well as religious and cultural institutions - has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fidelity. But this narrative is collapsing....

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Joshua Foer
• Narrated By Mike Chamberlain
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, Joshua Foer's part-memoir, part-guide on mastering your memory. Read by Mike Chamberlain. On average, people squander forty days annually trying to remember things they’ve forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S.

What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Scott Carney
• Narrated By Scott Carney
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Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans without even a whisper of what anyone today might consider modern technology. Those feats of endurance now seem impossible in an age where we take comfort for granted. But what if we could regain some of our lost evolutionary strength by simulating the environmental conditions of our forbears? Investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney takes up the challenge to find out: Can we hack our bodies and use the environment to stimulate our inner biology?

Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 12 mins)
• By T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson
• Narrated By Don Hagen

In The China Study, T. Colin Campbell revolutionized the way we think about our food with the evidence that a whole food, plant-based diet is the healthiest way to eat. Now, in Whole, he explains the science behind that evidence, the ways our current scientific paradigm ignores the fascinating complexity of the human body, and why, if we have such overwhelming evidence that everything we think we know about nutrition is wrong, our eating habits haven’t changed.

Biology: The Science of Life

• ORIGINAL (36 hrs and 36 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Stephen Nowicki

One of the greatest scientific feats of our era is the astonishing progress made in understanding biology-the intricate machinery of life-a progress to which the period we are living in right now has contributed the most.As you read these words, researchers are delving ever deeper into the workings of living systems, turning their discoveries into new medical treatments, improved methods of growing food, and innovative products that are already changing the world.

All Creatures Great and Small: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 41 mins)
• By James Herriot
• Narrated By Christopher Timothy
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The inspiration for the BBC series of the same name. Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But from his erratic new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to incomprehensible farmers, herds of semiferal cattle, a pig called Nugent and an overweight Pekingese called Tricki Woo, James find he is on a learning curve as steep as the hills around him.

The Wisdom of Your Cells: How Your Beliefs Control Your Biology

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Bruce H. Lipton
• Narrated By Bruce H. Lipton

In the tradition of Carl Sagan, Rachel Carson, and Stephen Hawking, a new voice has emerged with the unique gift of translating cutting-edge science into clear, accessible language: Dr. Bruce Lipton. With The Wisdom of Your Cells, this internationally recognized authority on cellular biology takes listeners on an in-depth exploration into the microscopic world, where new discoveries and research are revolutionizing the way we understand life, evolution, and consciousness.

Food, Science, and the Human Body

• ORIGINAL (17 hrs and 46 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Alyssa Crittenden

What foods did the human body evolve to eat, and why? How does the food we eat affect our genes and our minds? What foods are (and aren't) optimal for our everyday health? How can we use cutting-edge science to end world hunger? In these 36 lectures, get eye-opening answers to these and other perplexing questions about the evolution of the human diet and its relationship to our bodies.

Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations

• ORIGINAL (18 hrs and 9 mins)
• By The Great Courses, Brian M. Fagan
• Narrated By Professor Brian M. Fagan

Where do we come from? How did our ancestors settle this planet? How did the great historic civilizations of the world develop? How does a past so shadowy that it has to be painstakingly reconstructed from fragmentary, largely unwritten records nonetheless make us who and what we are?

These 36 lectures bring you the answers that the latest scientific and archaeological research and theorizing suggest about human origins, how populations developed, and the ways in which civilizations spread throughout the globe.

Origins of the Human Mind

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 24 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Stephen P. Hinshaw

This 24-lecture series is your guide to the latest information and viewpoints on what scientists know about this fascinating subject. Taught by an award-winning teacher whose training as a clinical psychologist straddles both the science of the mind and its impact on individual lives, their comprehensive approach reveals how that science applies to the life of our species - and to your own life as well. The lectures explore theories about how the mind works on both an evolutionary and individual scale.

Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, 2nd Edition

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 14 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Robert Sapolsky

When are we responsible for our own actions, and when are we in the grip of biological forces beyond our control? What determines who we fall in love with? The intensity of our spiritual lives? The degree of our aggressive impulses? These questions fall into the scientific province of behavioral biology, the field that explores interactions between the brain, mind, body, and environment that have a surprising influence on how we behave.

Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded): How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 26 mins)
• By John Medina
• Narrated By John Medina

In Brain Rules for Baby, Dr. John Medina shares what the latest science says about how to raise smart and happy children from zero to five. This book is destined to revolutionize parenting. Just one of the surprises: The best way to get your children into the college of their choice? Teach them impulse control. Brain Rules for Baby bridges the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice.

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Jared Diamond
• Narrated By Rob Shapiro

We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet - having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created breathtaking works of art - while chimps remain animals concerned primarily with the basic necessities of survival. What is it about that two percent difference in DNA that has created such a divergence between evolutionary cousins?

The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence

• ORIGINAL (25 hrs and 15 mins)
• By The Great Courses, Robert M. Hazen
• Narrated By Professor Robert M. Hazen

This course chronicles the history of Earth and life on Earth from the point of view of the minerals that made it all happen. A major theme is how minerals and life coevolved, leading to the unprecedented mineral diversity on our world compared to the other planets in the solar system. Professor Hazen tells this epic story in 48 action-packed lectures that take you from the big bang to the formation of the solar system to the major milestones that marked the evolution of Earth and life.

Secrets of the Human Body

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Chris van Tulleken, Xand van Tulleken, Andrew Cohen
• Narrated By Xand van Tulleken

Two hundred and six bones. One heart. Two eyes. Ten fingers. You may think we know what makes up a human. But it turns out our bodies are full of surprises. What makes tears of joy different from tears of sadness? Why is a gut feeling so much smarter than you think? And why is 90 percent of you not even human? You may think you know the human body - heart, lungs, brain and bones - but it's time to think again. Your body is full of extraordinary mysteries that science is only just beginning to understand.

Immune

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Catherine Carver
• Narrated By Helen McAlpine
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The human body is like an exceedingly well-fortified castle, defended by billions of soldiers - some live for less than a day, others remember battles for decades, but all are essential in protecting us from disease. This hidden army is our immune system, and without it we could not survive the eternal war between us and our microscopic enemies. Immune explores the incredible arsenal that lives within us - how it knows what to attack and what to defend and how it kills everything from the common cold to the plague bacterium.

Why Dinosaurs Matter

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Kenneth Lacovara
• Narrated By Kenneth Lacovara
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World-renowned paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara reveals how understanding dinosaurs can help us better understand our own biology - and our future. Dinosaurs captivate people. Men and women, young and old, have a deep fascination with the species that roamed Earth before us. In this audiobook, paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara takes listeners on a journey - back to when dinosaurs roamed the Earth - to reveal how dinosaurs achieved feats unparalleled by any other group of animals.

Hashimotos: The 30 Day Guide to Help Reverse Thyroid Symptoms and Live a Healthier Lifestyle

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 43 mins)
• By Andrew Johnson
• Narrated By Christopher Preece

From start to finish, this audiobook gives you all the information you need after a diagnosis of Hashimoto's disease. First, it goes over the biological basics. As the audiobook progresses, you will begin to learn how your thyroid is affected by everything that you put into your body.

Animals from Australia

• UNABRIDGED (42 mins)
• By My Ebook Publishing House
• Narrated By Matt Montanez

This encyclopedia is full of fascinating information that can answer thousands of intriguing questions about the animal kingdom. It offers informative descriptions and interesting facts about animals that live in Australia. From the kangaroos to dingos, koalas, emu and many more, each entry describes the animal's characteristics and behavior.

The Birds Our Teachers

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 41 mins)
• By John R. W. Stott
• Narrated By Destiny Image Audio

In this volume the author expands on Martin Luther's exhortation from the Sermon on the Mount, "Let the little birds be your theologians". He reveals lessons on faith from the feeding of ravens, on repentance from the migration of storks, on freedom from the flight of the eagle. He combines information about birds with biblical truths and personal anecdotes.

Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 36 mins)
• By James T. Costa
• Narrated By Sean Runnette
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James T. Costa takes listeners on a journey from Darwin's youth and travels on the HMS Beagle to Down House, his bustling home of 40 years. We accompany Darwin in his myriad pursuits against the backdrop of his enduring marriage, chronic illness, grief at the loss of three children, and joy in scientific revelation. At each chapter's end, Costa shows how we, too, can investigate the wonders of nature at work, with directions on how to re-create Darwin's experiments.

How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Lyudmila Trut, Lee Alan Dugatkin
• Narrated By Joe Hempel
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Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs - they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken - imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades. In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms in the USSR and attempting to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time.

My Left Ribs

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 21 mins)
• By Bedly Alcide
• Narrated By Cathy Schrecongost
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Neuromarketing Fundamentals

• UNABRIDGED (49 mins)
• By IntroBooks
• Narrated By Andrea Giordani

The word "brain" tends to be used when people talk about anatomical structures or circuitry in the brain. The term mind tends to be used to refer to the subjective cognitive states a brain creates. For example, the prefrontal cortex is an anatomical part of the brain, but attention is a cognitive "state of mind" produced by activity in the brain. Generally, we use these terms interchangeably. We consider "nonconscious processes in the brain" to be equivalent to "the nonconscious mind."

Balance: A Dizzying Journey Through the Science of Our Most Delicate Sense

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Carol Svec
• Narrated By Wendy Tremont King
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Balance is a lively, 360-degree exploration of our body's supersense. Health and wellness writer Carol Svec examines every facet of balance in a way that is highly entertaining, broadly accessible, and rigorously researched. Listeners follow her through various facilities as she talks with scientists doing state-of-the-art research. She grilled an egg in a virtual kitchen, had her senses fooled in a tumbling room by a mannequin named Hans, survived "the Vominator" without losing her lunch, and experienced drunken dizziness inside a police muster room.

Human Physiology: Medical School Crash Course

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 9 mins)
• By AudioLearn Medical Content Team
• Narrated By Bhama Roget

AudioLearn's Medical School Crash Courses presents Human Physiology: Written by experts and authorities in the field and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in the subject. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school human physiology course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know.

Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Mark L. Winston
• Narrated By Fajer Al-Kaisi
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Being among bees is a full-body experience, Mark Winston writes. Bee Time presents his reflections on three decades spent studying these remarkable creatures, and on the lessons they can teach about how humans might better interact with one another and the natural world, from the boardroom to urban design to agricultural ecosystems.

Cupping: A Prophetical Medicine Appears in Its New Scientific Perspective

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 55 mins)
• By Mohammad Amin Sheikho, Dr. A. Fadel
• Narrated By Ronald Joy
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

You will find in this audiobook the scientific explanation of each of the rules which control the cupping operation - the relation between cupping and moon, cupping and gender, cupping and age, cupping and seasonal timing, cupping and day timing, cupping and its site from a person's body, cupping and physiological conditions of the human body, and between cupping and having food. In addition, you will find in this book very important scientific notes and advices, and you'll notice the true cupping operation step by step.

How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs)
• By Eduardo Kohn
• Narrated By Malcolm Hillgartner
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Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human - and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador's Upper Amazon, Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the world's most complex ecosystems.

DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 24 mins)
• By James D. Watson, Andrew Berry, Kevin Davies
• Narrated By Jonathan Cowley

James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from the discovery of the double helix to today's controversies to what the future may hold. Updated to include new findings in gene editing, epigenetics, and agricultural chemistry as well as two entirely new chapters on personal genomics and cancer research. This is the most comprehensive and authoritative exploration of DNA's impact on our society and our world.

Skeletal Muscle Physiology

• UNABRIDGED (9 mins)
• By Elizabeth Sarah
• Narrated By Elizabeth Sarah

Skeletal muscle physiology.

Creationism is Compatible with Evolutionary Theory

• UNABRIDGED (1 min)
• By J.-M. Kuczynski
• Narrated By J.-M. Kuczynski

It is argued that creationism is compatible with evolutionary theory.

Summary of Brain Rules by John Medina: Neuroscience Book Summaries

• UNABRIDGED (33 mins)
• By FlashBooks Book Summaries
• Narrated By Dean Bokhari

Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know - like the need for physical activity to get your brain working its best. How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget - and so important to repeat new knowledge? Is it true that men and women have different brains?

Science, Religion, and Ethics in Twenty-First Century Biomedical Discoveries: Which Way Is Forward?

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Fr. Kevin FitzGerald SJ PhD
• Narrated By Fr. Kevin FitzGerald SJ PhD

Beginning with the seemingly simple question "what is human?" Fr. FitzGerald investigates the implications of modern science. Several lectures are devoted to stem cells. What are they, where do they come from, and how are they used? Does it matter if a stem cell comes from an embryo versus bone marrow, the placenta, or skin? Examine the promise and dangers of stem cell research. The world marveled at Dolly, the first cloned sheep, and now cloning is widespread. What is cloning, how is it done, and are humans being cloned now?