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Lucky Planet
- Why Earth Is Exceptional - and What That Means for Life in the Universe
- By: David Waltham
- Narrated by: Richard Dadd
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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We have long fantasized about finding life on planets other than our own. Yet even as we become aware of the vast expanses beyond our solar system, it remains clear that Earth is exceptional. The question is: Why? In Lucky Planet, astrobiologist David Waltham argues that Earth’s climate stability is what makes it uniquely able to support life, and it is nothing short of luck that made such conditions possible. The four-billion-year stretch of good weather that our planet has experienced is statistically so unlikely that chances are slim that we will ever encounter intelligent extraterrestrial others.
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Lucky Planet
- Why Earth Is Exceptional - and What That Means for Life in the Universe
- Narrated by: Richard Dadd
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 08-04-2014
- Language: English
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Ancestors
- Identity and DNA in the Levant
- By: Pierre Zalloua
- Narrated by: Sean Rohani
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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An eye-opening investigation into ancestry and origins in the Middle East that synthesizes thousands of years of genetic history in the region to question what it means to be indigenous to any land “Ancestors transcends geography to launch an eye-opening inquiry into the relationship of...
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Ancestors
- Identity and DNA in the Levant
- Narrated by: Sean Rohani
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 29-04-2025
- Language: English
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The Age of Scientific Wellness
- Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands
- By: Leroy Hood MD PhD, Nathan Price PhD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
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We are on the cusp of a major transformation in healthcare—yet few people know it. At top hospitals and a few innovative health-tech startups, scientists are working closely with patients to dramatically extend their "healthspan"—the number of healthy years before disease sets in. In The Age of Scientific Wellness, two visionary leaders of this revolution in health take us on a thrilling journey to this new frontier of medicine.
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The Age of Scientific Wellness
- Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 13-06-2023
- Language: English
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Food, Genes, and Culture
- Eating Right for your Origins
- By: Gary Paul Nabhan
- Narrated by: Gregory N. St. John
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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In Food, Genes, and Culture, renowned ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan shows why the perfect diet for one person could be disastrous for another. If your ancestors were herders in Northern Europe, milk might well provide you with important nutrients, whereas if you’re Native American, you have a higher likelihood of lactose intolerance. If your roots lie in the Greek islands, the acclaimed Mediterranean diet might save your heart; if not, all that olive oil could just give you stomach cramps.
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Food, Genes, and Culture
- Eating Right for your Origins
- Narrated by: Gregory N. St. John
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 24-09-2013
- Language: English
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The Human Instinct
- How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
- By: Kenneth R. Miller
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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From one of America’s best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows “why, in light of our origins, humans are still special” (Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evolution). Once we had a special place in the hierarchy of life on...
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The Human Instinct
- How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 17-04-2018
- Language: English
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The Future of Humankind
- Why We Should Be Optimistic
- By: John Hands
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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In his acclaimed Cosmosapiens, renowned scientist John Hands looked back on how we humans evolved from the origin of the universe to the present day. Building on that work, The Future of Humankind: Why We Should Be Optimistic looks ahead to our ultimate destiny. Listeners embark on a fascinating journey in which Hands evaluates current major predictions for our future in three categories—extinction, survival, and transformation—before making his own unique and astonishing forecast.
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The Future of Humankind
- Why We Should Be Optimistic
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 21-02-2023
- Language: English
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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. It defines animal welfare as "health and animals having what they want", a definition that can be easily understood by scientists and non-scientists alike, expresses in simple words what underlies many existing definitions, and shows what evidence we need to collect to improve animal welfare in practice. Above all, it puts the animal's own point of view at the heart of an assessment of its welfare.
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The Science of Animal Welfare
- Understanding What Animals Want
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 13-04-2021
- Language: English
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The Flamingo's Smile
- Reflections in Natural History
- By: Stephen Jay Gould
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Evolutionary theory in the theme that binds together these essays on such seemingly disparate topics as the feeding habits of flamingos, flowers and snails that change from male to female and sometimes back again, and the extinction from baseball of the .400 hitter.
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The Flamingo's Smile
- Reflections in Natural History
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 12-09-2023
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Evolution
- Tracing ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ from Aristotle to DNA
- By: John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands of years. This lively history traces the evolution of...
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On the Origin of Evolution
- Tracing ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ from Aristotle to DNA
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 12-11-2020
- Language: English
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Genetics of Ashkenazi Jews
- Mediterranean and Middle Eastern People in the European Diaspora
- By: Joshua Robbin Marks
- Narrated by: Joshua Robbin Marks
- Length: 42 mins
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From the author of Seed of Israel: DNA Guide to Tracing Your Jewish Ancestry comes this great dive into the history of Ashkenazi Jews. While controversial debates spark disagreements on the crystallization of this Jewish Diaspora, modern genetic studies and personal DNA samples finally conclude the Levantine Middle Eastern and Mediterranean roots of Ashkenazi ancestry: Judean people from the Holy Land that journeyed across the Mediterranean to the bottleneck of Europe.
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Genetics of Ashkenazi Jews
- Mediterranean and Middle Eastern People in the European Diaspora
- Narrated by: Joshua Robbin Marks
- Length: 42 mins
- Release date: 28-04-2021
- Language: English
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Genes
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Jonathan Slack
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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In this exploration of the concept of the gene, Jonathan Slack looks at the discovery, nature, and role of genes in both evolution and development. Explaining the nature of genetic variation in the human population, how hereditary factors were identified as molecules of DNA, and how certain specific mutations can lead to disease, Slack highlights how DNA variants are used to trace human ancestry and migration, and can also be used by forensic scientists to identify individuals in crime.
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Genes
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 27-08-2023
- Language: English
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Understanding Human Evolution
- By: Ian Tattersall
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution. Written by a leading authority, it lucidly and engagingly explains not only the evolutionary process, but the technologies currently used to unravel the evolutionary past and emergence of Homo sapiens.
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Understanding Human Evolution
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 22-10-2024
- Language: English
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Is Earth Exceptional?
- The Quest for Cosmic Life
- By: Mario Livio Ph.D. Ph.D., Jack Szostak Ph.D. Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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A New York Times–bestselling astrophysicist and a Nobel laureate describe the quest to discover how and where the universe breathed life into matter For a long time, scientists have wondered how life has emerged from inanimate chemistry, and whether Earth is the only place where it exists...
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Is Earth Exceptional?
- The Quest for Cosmic Life
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-09-2024
- Language: English
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From Darwin to Derrida
- Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life
- By: David Haig, Daniel C. Dennett - foreword
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
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In From Darwin to Derrida, evolutionary biologist David Haig explains how a physical world of matter in motion gave rise to a living world of purpose and meaning. Natural selection, a process without purpose, gives rise to purposeful beings who find meaning in the world. The key to this, Haig proposes, is the origin of mutable “texts”―genes―that preserve a record of what has worked in the world. These texts become the specifications for the intricate mechanisms of living beings.
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From Darwin to Derrida
- Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 24-11-2020
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
- Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
- By: Henry Gee
- Narrated by: Henry Gee
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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"Henry Gee presents a pithy, fascinating account of the stages of biological evolution. ... a meditative and friendly listening experience. —AudioFile on A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth Written and read by the award-winning author of A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: a history...
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
- Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
- Narrated by: Henry Gee
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 18-03-2025
- Language: English
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Armas, gérmenes y acero [Guns, Germs and Steel]
- Breve historia de la humanidad en los últimos trece mil años
- By: Jared Diamond, Fabián Chueca
- Narrated by: John Alex Toro
- Length: 23 hrs and 36 mins
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Hace 13.000 años la evolución de las distintas sociedades humanas comenzó a tomar rumbos diferentes. La temprana domesticación de animales y el cultivo de plantas silvestres en el Creciente Fértil, China, Mesoamérica y otras zonas geográficas otorgó una ventaja inicial a sus habitantes. Sin embargo, los orígenes localizados de la agricultura y la ganadería son solo una parte de la explicación de los diferentes destinos. Las sociedades que superaron esta fase de cazadores-recolectores se encontraron con más probabilidades de desarrollo, supervivencia y poder bélico.
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Armas, gérmenes y acero [Guns, Germs and Steel]
- Breve historia de la humanidad en los últimos trece mil años
- Narrated by: John Alex Toro
- Length: 23 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 14-01-2021
- Language: Spanish
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Life Story
- From Cells to Civilisations and Beyond
- By: Jonathan Loh
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Brought to you by Penguin. We know all about evolution. But that’s only half the story. Life Story is Jonathan Loh’s groundbreaking dual narrative of the development of life on Earth through both biological and cultural evolution. Far from being a byproduct of nature, he reveals how human...
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Life Story
- From Cells to Civilisations and Beyond
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 27-08-2026
- Language: English
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God's Grandeur
- The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design
- By: Ann Gauger PhD - editor
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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This book, edited by biologist Ann Gauger, clears up common misconceptions regarding intelligent design, showing why it is an argument not from ignorance but from knowledge and how the evidence for God's design of the natural world is growing.
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God's Grandeur
- The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 12-12-2023
- Language: English
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Unkind Mind
- The Neuroscience of Why Women Are So Hard on Themselves―and How to Quiet Your Inner Critic for Good
- By: Betsy Holmberg PhD
- Narrated by: Sharmila Devar
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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Does it ever feel like there's a hypercritical, negative voice inside your head, telling you that you aren't good enough, pretty enough, smart enough, or worthy of success or love? Negative self-talk is all too common, especially for women. This inner critic originally served an important evolutionary purpose—to ensure survival. The problem is, this voice can be difficult to "switch off," leading to anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. So, how can you move past negative self-talk and start living with confidence?
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Unkind Mind
- The Neuroscience of Why Women Are So Hard on Themselves―and How to Quiet Your Inner Critic for Good
- Narrated by: Sharmila Devar
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2025
- Language: English
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Evolutionary Psychology
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Maryanne Fisher, T. Joel Wade
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 6 hrs
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How did our brains change over the course of evolution, and what did it mean for our ancestors? Why do we behave the way we do today? Evolutionary psychology is the only framework that allows us to fully understand the nuances of humans' motivations, emotions, cognitions, and behaviors. Our bodies have evolved over time, and so too have our brains.
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Evolutionary Psychology
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 01-12-2026
- Language: English
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