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The Secret of Our Success
- 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
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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, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals?
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Interesting but confusingly told
- By Happy recipient on 04-07-2025
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The Secret of Our Success
- How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 13-03-2018
- Language: English
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Power, Sex, Suicide
- Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
- By: Nick Lane
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, author Nick Lane brings together the latest research findings in the exciting field of mitochondria research to reveal how our growing understanding of mitochondria is shedding light on how complex life evolved, why sex arose (why don't we just bud?), and why we age and die. This understanding is of fundamental importance, both in understanding how we and all other complex life came to be, but also in order to be able to control our own illnesses, and delay our degeneration and death.
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learnt a lot about life and all sorts of things
- By Karl Kleimeyer on 24-03-2020
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Power, Sex, Suicide
- Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 12-03-2019
- Language: English
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The Meme Machine
- By: Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins - foreword
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our distant ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began, a survival of the fittest amongst competing ideas and behaviors. Ideas and behaviors that proved most adaptive-making tools, for example, or using language - survived and flourished, replicating themselves in as many minds as possible.
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How the ape got his big brain...
- By Alaric Goldkuhl on 12-10-2020
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The Meme Machine
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2019
- Language: English
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Honeybee Democracy
- By: Thomas D. Seeley
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Honeybees make decisions collectively-and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley reveals, these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making.
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Spectacular!
- By Bronwyn Woods on 25-10-2021
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Honeybee Democracy
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 05-12-2017
- Language: English
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Darwin's Black Box
- The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
- By: Michael J. Behe
- Narrated by: Marc William
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Naming Darwin's Black Box to the National Review's list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the 20th century, George Gilder wrote that it "overthrows Darwin at the end of the 20th century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning". Discussing the book in the New Yorker in May 2005, H. Allen Orr said of Behe, "He is the most prominent of the small circle of scientists working on intelligent design, and his arguments are by far the best known."
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Brilliant and provocative
- By Mark Fitzmaurice on 10-11-2024
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Darwin's Black Box
- The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
- Narrated by: Marc William
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 20-08-2019
- Language: English
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Dr. Mary's Monkey
- How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination, and Emerging Global Epidemics
- By: Edward T. Haslam
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical secret-keeping that began with the handling of evidence in the JFK assassination and continued apace....
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Brilliantly Worrying
- By Anonymous on 30-06-2021
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Dr. Mary's Monkey
- How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination, and Emerging Global Epidemics
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2012
- Language: English
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The Mind of a Bee
- By: Lars Chittka
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Most of us are aware of the hive mind—the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka draws from decades of research, including his own pioneering work, to argue that bees have remarkable cognitive abilities. He shows that they are profoundly smart, have distinct personalities, can recognize flowers and human faces, exhibit basic emotions, count, use simple tools, solve problems, and learn by observing others. They may even possess consciousness.
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The Mind of a Bee
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 26-07-2022
- Language: English
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Life
- 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
- Unabridged
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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. Featuring pioneering biologists, geneticists, physicists, and science writers, Life explains just how far we've come - and takes a brilliantly educated guess at where we're heading.
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- By Damien Teney on 26-08-2022
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Life
- The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain, Antony Ferguson, Jonathan Yen
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 27-12-2015
- Language: English
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Microbiology for Dummies
- By: Jennifer C. Stearns PhD, Michael G. Surette PhD, Julienne C. Kaiser PhD
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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Microbiology for Dummies is your guide to understanding the fundamentals of this enormously-encompassing field. Whether your career plans include microbiology or another science or health specialty, you need to understand life at the cellular level before you can understand anything on the macro scale. Microbes are literally the foundation of all life, and they are everywhere. Microbiology for Dummies will help you understand them, appreciate them, and use them.
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Microbiology for Dummies
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 30-08-2019
- Language: English
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Ever Since Darwin
- Reflections in Natural History
- By: Stephen Jay Gould
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science.
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Ever Since Darwin
- Reflections in Natural History
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2023
- Language: English
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CRISPR People
- The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
- By: Henry T. Greely
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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In November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that two babies had been born in China with DNA edited while they were embryos - as dramatic a development in genetics as the cloning of Dolly the sheep was in 1996. In this book, Hank Greely, a leading authority on law and genetics, tells the fascinating story of this human experiment and its consequences. Greely explains what Chinese scientist He Jiankui did, how he did it, and how the public and other scientists learned about and reacted to this unprecedented genetic intervention.
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CRISPR People
- The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 22-06-2021
- Language: English
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The Science of Mom
- A Research-Based Guide to Your Baby's First Year
- By: Alice Callahan
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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It seems like every time a new mother turns on her computer, radio, or television she is greeted with news of yet another scientific study about infancy. Ignoring good information isn't the right course, but just how does one tell the difference between solid studies, preliminary results, and snake oil? In this friendly guide through the science of infancy, Science of Mom blogger and PhD scientist Alice Callahan explains how nonscientist mothers can learn the difference between hype and evidence.
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The Science of Mom
- A Research-Based Guide to Your Baby's First Year
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2017
- Language: English
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In Search of Memory
- The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
- By: Eric R. Kandel
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
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A deft mixture of memoir and history, modern biology and behavior, In Search of Memory brings listeners from Kandel's childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna to the forefront of one of the great scientific endeavors of the 20th century: the search for the biological basis of memory. Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel intertwines the intellectual history of the powerful new science of the mind - a combination of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology - with his own personal quest to understand memory.
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Knowledge plus!
- By Fay Walker on 03-01-2022
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In Search of Memory
- The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-05-2018
- Language: English
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The Folly of Fools
- The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life
- By: Robert Trivers
- Narrated by: Chris Reilly
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive - but deceit and self-deception carry the costs of being alienated from reality and can lead to disaster. So why does deception play such a prominent role in our everyday lives? In short, why do we deceive?
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Some fascinating insights but I thought the dogmatic, self-certainty of the author’s biased beliefs let him down.
- By Graham C Cousens on 15-01-2024
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The Folly of Fools
- The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life
- Narrated by: Chris Reilly
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 31-01-2022
- Language: English
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All These Worlds Are Yours
- The Scientific Search for Alien Life
- By: Jon Willis
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth transfixed humans. In this fascinating book, astronomer Jon Willis explores the science of astrobiology and the possibility of locating other life in our own galaxy. Describing the most recent discoveries by space exploration missions, including the Kepler space telescope, the Mars Curiosity rover, and the New Horizons probe, Willis asks listeners to imagine - and choose among-five scenarios for finding life.
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All These Worlds Are Yours
- The Scientific Search for Alien Life
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 20-12-2016
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean B. Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answers to such simple yet profoundly important questions.
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The Serengeti Rules
- The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 25-01-2017
- Language: English
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Ant Architecture
- The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests
- By: Walter R. Tschinkel
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This book takes you inside an unseen world where thousands of ants build intricate homes in the soil beneath our feet. Tschinkel describes the ingenious methods he has devised to study ant nests, showing how he fills a nest with plaster, molten metal, or wax and painstakingly excavates the cast.
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This is incredible and so detailed
- By JuicyL85 on 18-03-2022
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Ant Architecture
- The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 22-06-2021
- Language: English
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Cambrian Ocean World
- Ancient Sea Life of North America (Life of the Past Series)
- By: John Foster
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
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This volume, aimed at the general audience, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first appearance of complex animals with eyes, protective skeletons, antennae, and complex ecologies.
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Cambrian Ocean World
- Ancient Sea Life of North America (Life of the Past Series)
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 27-12-2022
- Language: English
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Sleeping Beauties
- The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture
- By: Andreas Wagner
- Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Life innovates constantly, producing perfectly adapted species—but there's a catch. Many animals and plants eke out seemingly unremarkable lives. Passive, constrained, modest, threatened. Then, in a blink of evolutionary time, they flourish spectacularly. Once we start to look, these 'sleeping beauties' crop up everywhere. But why? Looking at the book of life, from apex predators to keystone crops, and informed by his own cutting-edge experiments, renowned scientist Andreas Wagner demonstrates that innovations can come frequently and cheaply to nature, well before they are needed.
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Sleeping Beauties
- The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture
- Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-05-2023
- Language: English
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Ahab's Rolling Sea
- A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"
- By: Richard J. King
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab's Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville's novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction.
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Ahab's Rolling Sea
- A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 29-09-2020
- Language: English
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