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She Has Her Mother's Laugh
- By: Carl Zimmer
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 20 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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She Has Her Mother’s Laugh presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it. The birth of genetics in the early 1900s seemed to do precisely that. Gradually, people translated their old notions about heredity into a language of genes. As the technology for studying genes became cheaper, millions of people ordered genetic tests to link themselves to missing parents, to distant ancestors, to ethnic identities....
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A bit on the dense side, but very interesting!
- By Juan Carlos Torres on 01-07-2019
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 20 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 14-06-2018
- Language: English
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
- Princeton Science Library
- By: Walter Alvarez, Carl Zimmer - foreword
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? Walter Alvarez, one of the Berkeley scientists who discovered evidence of the impact, tells the story behind the development of the initially controversial theory. It is a saga of high adventure in remote locations, of arduous data collection and intellectual struggle, of long periods of frustration ended by sudden breakthroughs, of friendships made and lost, and of the exhilaration of discovery that forever altered our understanding of Earth's geological history.
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
- Princeton Science Library
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2020
- Language: English
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