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Life Finds a Way

What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity

by Andreas Wagner ...

Narrated by Alex Hyde-White ...

Unabridged

7 hours 33 min

How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and scienceIn Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb to perfection--instead, "progress" is typically marked by a sequence of peaks, plateaus, and pitfalls. For ... Read more

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How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and scienceIn Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb to perfection--instead, "progress" is typically marked by a sequence of peaks, plateaus, and pitfalls. For
... Read more
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Human Errors

A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes

by Nathan H. Lents ...

Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

Unabridged

7 hours 38 min

A biology professor’s illuminating tour of the physical imperfections—from faulty knees to junk DNA—that make us human. ¶“A funny, fascinating catalog of our collective shortcomings that’s tough to put down.”—Discover ¶ We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution’s greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds ... Read more

$25.99 USD

A biology professor’s illuminating tour of the physical imperfections—from faulty knees to junk DNA—that make us human. ¶“A funny, fascinating catalog of our collective shortcomings that’s tough to put down.”—Discover ¶ We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution’s greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds
... Read more
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Gender Mosaic

Beyond the Myth of the Male and Female Brain

by Luba Vikhanski, Daphna Joel, PhD ...

Narrated by Thérèse Plummer ...

Unabridged

4 hours

With profound implications for our most foundational assumptions about gender, Gender Mosaic explains why there is no such thing as a male or female brain.For generations, we've been taught that women and men differ in profound and important ways. Women are more sensitive and emotional, whereas men are more aggressive and sexual, because this or that region in the brains of women is smaller or ... Read more

$18.99 USD

With profound implications for our most foundational assumptions about gender, Gender Mosaic explains why there is no such thing as a male or female brain.For generations, we've been taught that women and men differ in profound and important ways. Women are more sensitive and emotional, whereas men are more aggressive and sexual, because this or that region in the brains of women is smaller or
... Read more
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The Arrogant Ape

The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters

by Christine Webb ...

Narrated by Christine Webb ...

Unabridged

8 hours 57 min

**A New York Times’s Notable Book of 2025An impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species—and ourselves**Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. Yet today many maintain that we are the most intelligent, virtuous, successful species that ever lived. This flawed thinking enables us ... Read more

$22.00 USD

**A New York Times’s Notable Book of 2025An impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species—and ourselves**Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. Yet today many maintain that we are the most intelligent, virtuous, successful species that ever lived. This flawed thinking enables us
... Read more
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Close Encounters with Humankind

A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species

by Sang-Hee Lee ...

Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller ...

Unabridged

6 hours 37 min

What can fossilized teeth tell us about our ancient life expectancy? What can big data on fossils reveal about farming's problematic role in human evolution? How can simple geometric comparisons of skull and pelvic fossils suggest an origin to our social nature?In Close Encounters with Humankind, paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee explores some of our biggest evolutionary questions from unexpected ... Read more

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What can fossilized teeth tell us about our ancient life expectancy? What can big data on fossils reveal about farming's problematic role in human evolution? How can simple geometric comparisons of skull and pelvic fossils suggest an origin to our social nature?In Close Encounters with Humankind, paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee explores some of our biggest evolutionary questions from unexpected
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The Sacred Chain

How Understanding Evolution Leads to Deeper Faith

by Jim Stump ...

Narrated by Jim Stump ...

Unabridged

6 hours 25 min

“In this marvelously accessible book, philosopher-Christian Jim Stump provides the reader with new eyes for a journey through time, the origin of the soul, suffering, and morality, and reveals how the latest scientific findings about what it means to be human have led him to a deeper and more authentic faith.”—Francis S. Collins, Director of the Human Genome Project and Founder of BioLogos, author ... Read more

$23.99 USD

“In this marvelously accessible book, philosopher-Christian Jim Stump provides the reader with new eyes for a journey through time, the origin of the soul, suffering, and morality, and reveals how the latest scientific findings about what it means to be human have led him to a deeper and more authentic faith.”—Francis S. Collins, Director of the Human Genome Project and Founder of BioLogos, author
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A Polar Affair

Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins

by Lloyd Spencer Davis ...

Narrated by Raphael Corkhill ...

Unabridged

13 hours 9 min

A captivating blend of true adventure and natural history by one of today’s leading penguin experts and Antarctic explorersGeorge Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were ... Read more

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A captivating blend of true adventure and natural history by one of today’s leading penguin experts and Antarctic explorersGeorge Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were
... Read more
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Chris Addison: A BBC Radio Comedy Collection

The Ape That Got Lucky & Civilization

by Chris Addison ...

Narrated by Chris Addison, Dan Tetsell, Geoffrey McGivern, Jo Enright ...

Unabridged

3 hours 44 min

Award-winning comedian Chris Addison explores the funny side of human evolution and Western civilisation in two BBC Radio 4 spoof lecture seriesChris Addison – the thinking idiot's pretend anthropologist – takes us on a comic journey through the vast and rich subject of human history in these eight hilarious comedy lectures. Aided by Professor Austin Herring (aka Geoffrey McGivern), Dan Tetsell ... Read more

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Award-winning comedian Chris Addison explores the funny side of human evolution and Western civilisation in two BBC Radio 4 spoof lecture seriesChris Addison – the thinking idiot's pretend anthropologist – takes us on a comic journey through the vast and rich subject of human history in these eight hilarious comedy lectures. Aided by Professor Austin Herring (aka Geoffrey McGivern), Dan Tetsell
... Read more
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs

An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

by Riley Black ...

Narrated by Christina Delaine ...

Unabridged

8 hours 53 min

In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks listeners through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life’s losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the ... Read more

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In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks listeners through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life’s losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the
... Read more
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Explaining Life Through Evolution

by Prosanta Chakrabarty ...

Narrated by Alexander Thomas ...

Unabridged

4 hours 56 min

The story of four billion years of life on EarthLooking forward to a book that explains life? Well, here it is! Explaining Life Through Evolution opens a window to the four billion year history of the millions of species we see on this planet. This book does not simply narrate the story of evolution: It brings to light who we are and where we came from. As humans we often focus on identifying our ... Read more

$17.50 USD

The story of four billion years of life on EarthLooking forward to a book that explains life? Well, here it is! Explaining Life Through Evolution opens a window to the four billion year history of the millions of species we see on this planet. This book does not simply narrate the story of evolution: It brings to light who we are and where we came from. As humans we often focus on identifying our
... Read more
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Copycats and Contrarians

Why We Follow Others... and When We Don't

by Michelle Baddeley ...

Narrated by Cat Gould ...

Unabridged

10 hours 21 min

A multidisciplinary exploration of our human inclination to herd and why our instinct to copy others can be dangerous in today's interlinked world.Rioting teenagers, tumbling stock markets, and the spread of religious terrorism appear to have little in common, but all are driven by the same basic instincts: the tendency to herd, follow, and imitate others. In today's interconnected world, group ... Read more

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A multidisciplinary exploration of our human inclination to herd and why our instinct to copy others can be dangerous in today's interlinked world.Rioting teenagers, tumbling stock markets, and the spread of religious terrorism appear to have little in common, but all are driven by the same basic instincts: the tendency to herd, follow, and imitate others. In today's interconnected world, group
... Read more
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H. sapiens: The Last 12,000 Years

by Fil Munas M.D. ...

Narrated by Sean Cordry Ph.D. ...

Unabridged

10 hours 52 min

A COSMIC CONUNDRUM—This astonishing book follows our ascendancy from just another hominin on the open African savannah to the alpha hegemon on Earth today endangering its entire future. Along the way, humans methodically outwitted their competition with phenomenal efficiency and indifference, to emerge in the modern 21st century as the linchpin of a major mass extinction of countless other ... Read more

$14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A COSMIC CONUNDRUM—This astonishing book follows our ascendancy from just another hominin on the open African savannah to the alpha hegemon on Earth today endangering its entire future. Along the way, humans methodically outwitted their competition with phenomenal efficiency and indifference, to emerge in the modern 21st century as the linchpin of a major mass extinction of countless other
... Read more
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Sharks: The Ancient Predators That Outlived the Dinosaurs

by Edward Holm ...

Narrated by Edward Holm ...

Unabridged

1 hour 53 min

Uncover the ultimate natural history survival story as ancient apex predators outlasted cataclysms to rule our oceans. Perfect for an educational commute, this immersive exploration brings you face-to-face with marine biology's most misunderstood survivors. Trade fear for fascination as you travel four hundred million years into the deep time of our ancient seas.Feel the tension of modern ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Uncover the ultimate natural history survival story as ancient apex predators outlasted cataclysms to rule our oceans. Perfect for an educational commute, this immersive exploration brings you face-to-face with marine biology's most misunderstood survivors. Trade fear for fascination as you travel four hundred million years into the deep time of our ancient seas.Feel the tension of modern
... Read more
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Bite

An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans

by Bill Schutt ...

Narrated by Charles Constant ...

Unabridged

7 hours 46 min

From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neanderthals, Bite is a fascinating journey through the natural, scientific, and cultural history of something right in front of—or in—our faces: teeth.In Bite, zoologist Bill Schutt makes a surprising case: it is teeth that are responsible for the long-term success of vertebrates. The appearance of teeth, ... Read more

$24.99 USD

From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neanderthals, Bite is a fascinating journey through the natural, scientific, and cultural history of something right in front of—or in—our faces: teeth.In Bite, zoologist Bill Schutt makes a surprising case: it is teeth that are responsible for the long-term success of vertebrates. The appearance of teeth,
... Read more
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Pax and the Yellow Brick Message

Volume 6 of Do Unto Earth

by Penelope Jean Hayes, Carole Serene Borgens ...

Narrated by Penelope Jean Hayes ...

Series Audiobook 6 - The Do Unto Earth Series
Unabridged

2 hours 8 min

Does the Spirit World have more to add to the Ask-Believe-Receive method of manifesting? Does each generation have a specific role to play in environmental repair? Can we truly change systemic corruption and will the tide of power turn? Does intention actually create everything in the physical world? What can we do to develop our intuitive abilities? All this and more is answered in this ... Read more

$14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Does the Spirit World have more to add to the Ask-Believe-Receive method of manifesting? Does each generation have a specific role to play in environmental repair? Can we truly change systemic corruption and will the tide of power turn? Does intention actually create everything in the physical world? What can we do to develop our intuitive abilities? All this and more is answered in this
... Read more
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Human Origins

7 million years and counting

by New Scientist ...

Narrated by Mark Elstob ...

Series series New Scientist Instant Expert
Unabridged

6 hours 18 min

The story of how our ancestors made the first tentative steps towards becoming human, how we lost our fur but gained language, fire and tools, and how we strode out of Africa, invented farming and cities and ultimately created modern civilisation.Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the ... Read more

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The story of how our ancestors made the first tentative steps towards becoming human, how we lost our fur but gained language, fire and tools, and how we strode out of Africa, invented farming and cities and ultimately created modern civilisation.Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the
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How To Keep Dinosaurs

The perfect mix of humour and science

by Robert Mash ...

Narrated by Neil Gardner ...

Unabridged

5 hours

Perfect Christmas gift for any dinosaur enthusiast!'Who could resist a handbook about potential pets that has a little symbol for "likes children" and a separate one for "likes children to eat"... wonderful' GUARDIANHollywood and the popular press would have us believe that all dinosaurs are gigantic, hostile and untameable. In fact, there are many species that make charming and even useful ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Perfect Christmas gift for any dinosaur enthusiast!'Who could resist a handbook about potential pets that has a little symbol for "likes children" and a separate one for "likes children to eat"... wonderful' GUARDIANHollywood and the popular press would have us believe that all dinosaurs are gigantic, hostile and untameable. In fact, there are many species that make charming and even useful
... Read more
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Life as No One Knows It

The Physics of Life's Emergence

by Sara Imari Walker ...

Narrated by Sara Imari Walker ...

Unabridged

7 hours 20 min

An intriguing new scientific theory that explains what life is and how it emerges.What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life originates or the full range of possibilities for what life on other planets might look like.In ... Read more

$17.50 USD

An intriguing new scientific theory that explains what life is and how it emerges.What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life originates or the full range of possibilities for what life on other planets might look like.In
... Read more
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Metazoa

Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...

Narrated by Peter Godfrey-Smith, Mitch Riley ...

Unabridged

9 hours 49 min

**This program is read by Peter Godfrey-Smith with Mitch Riley.The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness.**Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms, whose rooted bodies, intricate geometry, and flower-like appendages are ... Read more

$26.99 USD

**This program is read by Peter Godfrey-Smith with Mitch Riley.The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness.**Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms, whose rooted bodies, intricate geometry, and flower-like appendages are
... Read more
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The Making of the Fittest

DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

by Sean B. Carroll ...

Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

Unabridged

8 hours 1 min

DNA evidence not only solves crimes—in Sean Carroll's hands it will now end the Evolution Wars.DNA is the genetic material that defines us as individuals. Over the last two decades, it has emerged as a powerful tool for solving crimes and determining guilt and innocence. But, very recently, an important new aspect of DNA has been revealed—it contains a detailed record of evolution. That is, DNA is ... Read more

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DNA evidence not only solves crimes—in Sean Carroll's hands it will now end the Evolution Wars.DNA is the genetic material that defines us as individuals. Over the last two decades, it has emerged as a powerful tool for solving crimes and determining guilt and innocence. But, very recently, an important new aspect of DNA has been revealed—it contains a detailed record of evolution. That is, DNA is
... Read more
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Ошибки природы: Пределы и несовершенство естественного отбора

by Энди Добсон ...

Narrated by Андрей Троммельман ...

Unabridged

9 hours 1 min

Эта аудиокнига об эволюции, но не о ее величайших достижениях. Напротив, в ней рассматриваются всевозможные эволюционные решения, которые можно назвать самоубийственными, неудачными, неэкономными или откровенно странными — и объясняется, почему всему этому благоприятствует естественный отбор. В грандиозной борьбе за выживание проявляются некоторые удивительные закономерности: животные всегда ... Read more

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Эта аудиокнига об эволюции, но не о ее величайших достижениях. Напротив, в ней рассматриваются всевозможные эволюционные решения, которые можно назвать самоубийственными, неудачными, неэкономными или откровенно странными — и объясняется, почему всему этому благоприятствует естественный отбор. В грандиозной борьбе за выживание проявляются некоторые удивительные закономерности: животные всегда
... Read more
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Bitch

On the Female of the Species

by Lucy Cooke ...

Narrated by Lucy Cooke ...

Unabridged

11 hours 55 min

A zoologist’s “compelling and often hilarious” (Science) look at the queens of the animal kingdomSomewhere in the ocean, an orca matriarch leads her pod to better hunting grounds. At the same time, a male clownfish, alone after the death of his mate, changes sex. All the while, humans battle over sex and gender: One side argues evolutionary biology dictates how we should be, and the other that it ... Read more

$27.99 USD

A zoologist’s “compelling and often hilarious” (Science) look at the queens of the animal kingdomSomewhere in the ocean, an orca matriarch leads her pod to better hunting grounds. At the same time, a male clownfish, alone after the death of his mate, changes sex. All the while, humans battle over sex and gender: One side argues evolutionary biology dictates how we should be, and the other that it
... Read more
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What Is Life?

Five Great Ideas in Biology

by Paul Nurse ...

Narrated by Paul Nurse ...

Unabridged

5 hours 6 min

The Nobel Prize–winning scientist's elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today.The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every listener can understand.It is a shared journey of discovery; step-by-step Nurse illuminates ... Read more

$18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Nobel Prize–winning scientist's elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today.The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every listener can understand.It is a shared journey of discovery; step-by-step Nurse illuminates
... Read more
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Delicious

The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human

by Rob Dunn, Monica Sanchez ...

Narrated by Russell Bentley ...

Unabridged

8 hours 3 min

This delightful audiobook narrated by Russell Bentley offers a savory account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolutionNature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some so pleasing while others are not? Delicious is a supremely entertaining foray into the heart of such questions.With generous helpings of ... Read more

$20.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This delightful audiobook narrated by Russell Bentley offers a savory account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolutionNature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some so pleasing while others are not? Delicious is a supremely entertaining foray into the heart of such questions.With generous helpings of
... Read more

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