Showing results by publisher "University Press Audiobooks" in Biology
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Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- By: Frans de Waal
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes.
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Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 16-07-2010
- Language: English
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On Human Nature: Revised Edition
- By: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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This revised edition of Human Nature begins a new phase in the most important intellectual controversy of this generation: Is human behavior controlled by the species' biological heritage? Does this heritage limit human destiny?
With characteristic pungency and simplicity of style, the author of Sociobiology challenges old prejudices and current misconceptions about the nature-nurture debate.
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On Human Nature: Revised Edition
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 15-07-2010
- Language: English
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Wild Justice
- The Moral Lives of Animals
- By: Marc Bekoff, Jessica Pierce
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. Yet what are we to make of a female gorilla in a German zoo who spent days mourning the death of her baby? Or a wild female elephant who cared for a younger one after she was injured by a rambunctious teenage male?
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Wild Justice
- The Moral Lives of Animals
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 16-07-2010
- Language: English
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Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist (MIT Press)
- By: Christof Koch
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bio-electrical activity in the brain? Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the physics of the brain and phenomenal experience. This engaging book - part scientific overview, part memoir, part futurist speculation - describes Koch's search for an empirical explanation for consciousness.
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An Intellectual perspective
- By Anonymous on 16-06-2023
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Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist (MIT Press)
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 05-12-2017
- Language: English
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First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began
- By: David Deamer
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory. Seeking to understand life's connection to the stars, David Deamer introduces astrobiology, a new scientific discipline that studies the origin and evolution of life on Earth and relates it to the birth and death of stars, planet formation, interfaces between minerals, water, and atmosphere, and the physics and chemistry of carbon compounds.
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absolutely amazing
- By Amazon Customer on 05-03-2021
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First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 03-12-2012
- Language: English
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Twilight of the Mammoths
- Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America
- By: Paul S. Martin
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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As recently as 11,000 years ago - "near time" to geologists - mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles, these large animals vanished in North and South America around the time humans arrived at the end of the last great ice age.
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Twilight of the Mammoths
- Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 07-09-2010
- Language: English
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Long Hops: Making Sense of Bird Migration
- Latitude 20 Book
- By: Mark Denny
- Narrated by: Sonny Dufault
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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In Long Hops, physicist Mark Denny explains, in a clear, conversational style, the science of bird migration - from the intricacies of bird aeronautics to the newly unraveled mysteries of their magnetic compasses. While providing wherever possible examples of indigenous Hawaiian species, the book surveys the migration phenomenon as a whole, showing that birds are breathtaking works of engineering with spectacular capabilities for long-distance flights.
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Long Hops: Making Sense of Bird Migration
- Latitude 20 Book
- Narrated by: Sonny Dufault
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 02-12-2016
- Language: English
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Dolphin Mysteries
- Unlocking the Secrets of Communication
- By: Kathleen M. Dudzinski Ph.D., Toni Frohoff Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Kym Dakin-Neal
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Dolphins have fascinated humans for millennia, giving rise to an abundance of stories and myths about them, yet the actual details of their lives in the sea have remained elusive. In this enthralling book, Kathleen M. Dudzinski and Toni Frohoff take us into the dolphins' aquatic world to witness firsthand how they live their lives, communicate, and interact with one another and with other species, including people.
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Dolphin Mysteries
- Unlocking the Secrets of Communication
- Narrated by: Kym Dakin-Neal
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 14-12-2010
- Language: English
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What If Fungi Win?
- Johns Hopkins Wavelengths
- By: Arturo Casadevall
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Humans and fungi share nearly 50 percent of the same DNA. Because we're related, designing drugs to combat the varieties that attack us is a challenge. Meanwhile, in an ever hotter, wetter world, fungi may be finding new ways to thrive, queueing up global outbreak potentials for which no vaccine and woefully few medications exist; some fungi are already beginning to resist treatment. Among other lifeforms, bats, amphibians, and essential crops are also increasingly threatened by these pathogens.
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What If Fungi Win?
- Johns Hopkins Wavelengths
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 23-07-2024
- Language: English
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Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth
- Texas A&M University Anthropology Series
- By: Ian Tattersall, Rob DeSalle
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Race has provided the rationale and excuse for some of the worst atrocities in human history. Yet, according to many biologists, physical anthropologists, and geneticists, there is no valid scientific justification for the concept of race. To be more precise, although there is clearly some physical basis for the variations that underlie perceptions of race, clear boundaries among "races" remain highly elusive from a purely biological standpoint.
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Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth
- Texas A&M University Anthropology Series
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2017
- Language: English
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The Neuroscience of Fair Play
- Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
- By: Donald W. Pfaff Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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We remember the admonition of our mothers: "Treat others as you want them to treat you." But what if being nice was something we were inclined by nature to do anyway? Renowned neuroscientist Donald Pfaff upends our entire understanding of ethics and social contracts with an intriguing proposition: the Golden Rule is hardwired into the human brain. Pfaff, the researcher who first discovered the connections between specific brain circuits and certain behaviors, contends that the basic ethics governing our everyday lives can be traced directly to brain circuitry.
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The Neuroscience of Fair Play
- Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 18-10-2012
- Language: English
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The Genial Gene
- Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness
- By: Joan Roughgarden
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Genial Gene, Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution. Building on her brilliant and innovative book Evolution's Rainbow, in which she challenged accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation, Roughgarden upends the notion of the selfish gene and the theory of sexual selection and develops a compelling and controversial alternative theory called social selection.
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The Genial Gene
- Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-09-2010
- Language: English
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The Deep Structure of Biology
- Is Convergence Sufficiently Ubiquitous to Give a Directional Signal
- By: Simon Conway Morris - editor
- Narrated by: Philip Sondericker
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Twelve renowned scientists and theologians offer penetrating insights into the evolution dialogue in The Deep Structure of Biology. Each considers whether the orthodox model of evolution is sufficient and offers his/her own perspective on evolution and biology. The discussion of biology and evolution in these essays broadens the scope of the traditional evolution discussion as it aims to stimulate the development of further research programs. Scholars in the science and religion field will find this book a valuable resource.
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The Deep Structure of Biology
- Is Convergence Sufficiently Ubiquitous to Give a Directional Signal
- Narrated by: Philip Sondericker
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 16-08-2012
- Language: English
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The Promise and Peril of CRISPR
- By: Neal Baer
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Scientists and genetic engineers are becoming increasingly adept at editing the human genome. How far can—and should—they go in editing future generations? In The Promise and Peril of CRISPR, editor Neal Baer brings together a timely collection of essays by influential bioethicists, philosophers, and geneticists to explore the moral, ethical, and policy challenges posed by CRISPR technology.
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The Promise and Peril of CRISPR
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-01-2025
- Language: English
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