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Origins

The Search for Our Prehistoric Past

by Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes ...

Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

In Origins, Frank H. T. Rhodes explores the origin and evolution of living things, the changing environments in which they have developed, and the challenges we now face on an increasingly crowded and polluted planet. Rhodes argues that the future well-being of our burgeoning population depends in no small part on our understanding of life’s past, its long and slow development, and its intricate ... Read more

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In Origins, Frank H. T. Rhodes explores the origin and evolution of living things, the changing environments in which they have developed, and the challenges we now face on an increasingly crowded and polluted planet. Rhodes argues that the future well-being of our burgeoning population depends in no small part on our understanding of life’s past, its long and slow development, and its intricate
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Pax and Our Starseeded Origins

Volume 1 of Do Unto Earth

by Penelope Jean Hayes, Carole Serene Borgens ...

Narrated by Penelope Jean Hayes ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Do Unto Earth Series
Unabridged

2 hours 23 min

Is Bigfoot real? Was there a lost continent called Atlantis? What causes navigational anomalies inside the Bermuda Triangle? Are humans actually aliens to Earth? Did ET’s build the Great Pyramids? All this and more is answered in this extraordinary conversation.Pax self-introduces as the “Divine Universe” and “God being” and has important information to share with humanity regarding planetary ... Read more

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Is Bigfoot real? Was there a lost continent called Atlantis? What causes navigational anomalies inside the Bermuda Triangle? Are humans actually aliens to Earth? Did ET’s build the Great Pyramids? All this and more is answered in this extraordinary conversation.Pax self-introduces as the “Divine Universe” and “God being” and has important information to share with humanity regarding planetary
... Read more
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The Fox, the Shrew, and You

How Brains Evolved

by Rogier B. Mars ...

Narrated by Gail Shalan ...

Unabridged

6 hours 37 min

A leading neuroscientist describes the long evolutionary process that led to the human brain.Our human brain is both unique and similar to that of other species. The only way we can trace its evolution is by comparing it to the brains of animals alive today. In this book, leading neuroscientist Rogier Mars offers an engaging account of the evolution of the brain by exploring the brains and ... Read more

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A leading neuroscientist describes the long evolutionary process that led to the human brain.Our human brain is both unique and similar to that of other species. The only way we can trace its evolution is by comparing it to the brains of animals alive today. In this book, leading neuroscientist Rogier Mars offers an engaging account of the evolution of the brain by exploring the brains and
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Ève: 200 millions d'années d'évolution au féminin

by Cat Bohannon ...

Narrated by Léonore Boissière ...

Unabridged

15 hours 35 min

"Les corps femelles ne sont pas de simples corps mâles avec des “trucs en plus” (graisse, seins, utérus). Être sexué s'insinue dans toutes les caractéristiques essentielles de notre corps de mammifère, ainsi que dans la vie que nous menons à l'intérieur de ce corps, que nous soyons une souris ou un être humain." Jusqu'à récemment, les scientifiques se sont contentés d'étudier la norme mâle et nous ... Read more

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"Les corps femelles ne sont pas de simples corps mâles avec des “trucs en plus” (graisse, seins, utérus). Être sexué s'insinue dans toutes les caractéristiques essentielles de notre corps de mammifère, ainsi que dans la vie que nous menons à l'intérieur de ce corps, que nous soyons une souris ou un être humain." Jusqu'à récemment, les scientifiques se sont contentés d'étudier la norme mâle et nous
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Jungle

How Tropical Forests Shaped the World—and Us

by Patrick Roberts ...

Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

Unabridged

12 hours 41 min

From the age of dinosaurs to the first human cities, a groundbreaking new history of the planet that tropical forests made.To many of us, tropical forests are the domain of movies and novels. These dense, primordial wildernesses are beautiful to picture, but irrelevant to our lives.Jungle tells a different story. Archaeologist Patrick Roberts argues that tropical forests have shaped nearly every ... Read more

$31.99 USD

From the age of dinosaurs to the first human cities, a groundbreaking new history of the planet that tropical forests made.To many of us, tropical forests are the domain of movies and novels. These dense, primordial wildernesses are beautiful to picture, but irrelevant to our lives.Jungle tells a different story. Archaeologist Patrick Roberts argues that tropical forests have shaped nearly every
... Read more
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Spite

The Upside of Your Dark Side

by Simon McCarthy-Jones ...

Narrated by Chris Clarkson ...

Unabridged

6 hours 5 min

Spite angers and enrages us, but it also keeps us honest. In this provocative account, a psychologist examines how petty vengeance explains human thriving.Spite seems utterly useless. You don't gain anything by hurting yourself just so you can hurt someone else. So why hasn't evolution weeded out all the spiteful people?As psychologist Simon McCarthy-Jones argues, spite seems pointless because we ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Spite angers and enrages us, but it also keeps us honest. In this provocative account, a psychologist examines how petty vengeance explains human thriving.Spite seems utterly useless. You don't gain anything by hurting yourself just so you can hurt someone else. So why hasn't evolution weeded out all the spiteful people?As psychologist Simon McCarthy-Jones argues, spite seems pointless because we
... Read more
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The Red Queen

Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

by Matt Ridley ...

Narrated by Simon Prebble ...

Unabridged

12 hours 52 min

“A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.” (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller GenomeBrilliantly written, The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love.Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has ... ... Read more

$32.99 USD

“A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.” (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller GenomeBrilliantly written, The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love.Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has ...
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The Sexual Evolution

How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships

by Nathan H. Lents ...

Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

Unabridged

13 hours 27 min

Longlisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award“A bulletproof case that sexual diversity exists in the natural world…The Sexual Evolution is a thoughtfully and delightfully written book full of illuminating and entertaining information that will be new to most readers. At a time when ignorance and misinformation about sex, gender, reproduction, and intimacy abound, we could all ... Read more

$32.99 USD

Longlisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award“A bulletproof case that sexual diversity exists in the natural world…The Sexual Evolution is a thoughtfully and delightfully written book full of illuminating and entertaining information that will be new to most readers. At a time when ignorance and misinformation about sex, gender, reproduction, and intimacy abound, we could all
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Les requins : Ces prédateurs ancestraux qui ont survécu aux dinosaures

by Bernard Colas ...

Narrated by Bernard Colas ...

Unabridged

2 hours 16 min

Explorez la paléontologie et l'évolution fascinante des prédateurs marins ayant survécu aux extinctions massives. Idéal pour enrichir votre trajet quotidien, ce voyage immersif à travers le temps géologique démystifie les géants des mers. Laissez-vous captiver par un récit épique où la science décrypte les mystères d'une incroyable longévité biologique.Plongez dans les eaux du Mésozoïque et ... Read more

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Explorez la paléontologie et l'évolution fascinante des prédateurs marins ayant survécu aux extinctions massives. Idéal pour enrichir votre trajet quotidien, ce voyage immersif à travers le temps géologique démystifie les géants des mers. Laissez-vous captiver par un récit épique où la science décrypte les mystères d'une incroyable longévité biologique.Plongez dans les eaux du Mésozoïque et
... Read more
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Extinctions de masse : Les cinq fois où la vie sur Terre a failli disparaître

by Alban Delmas ...

Narrated by Alban Delmas ...

Unabridged

2 hours 16 min

Plongez dans l'histoire de l'évolution et découvrez comment la vie a survécu à cinq cataclysmes planétaires majeurs. Idéal pour transformer votre trajet quotidien en une exploration immersive, ce documentaire audio retrace des millions d'années d'histoire naturelle. Laissez-vous transporter des anciens océans de l'Ordovicien jusqu'au triomphe des mammifères.Au-delà de la simple destruction, cette ... Read more

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Plongez dans l'histoire de l'évolution et découvrez comment la vie a survécu à cinq cataclysmes planétaires majeurs. Idéal pour transformer votre trajet quotidien en une exploration immersive, ce documentaire audio retrace des millions d'années d'histoire naturelle. Laissez-vous transporter des anciens océans de l'Ordovicien jusqu'au triomphe des mammifères.Au-delà de la simple destruction, cette
... Read more
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Les chiens : Comment le loup est devenu le meilleur ami de l’humanité

by Rémi Sauvage ...

Narrated by Rémi Sauvage ...

Unabridged

2 hours 8 min

Plongez dans l'histoire fascinante de l'évolution animale qui a transformé le loup sauvage en notre fidèle compagnon. Idéal pour accompagner votre promenade quotidienne, ce récit scientifique retrace la naissance d'une alliance inter-espèces absolument unique. Des premières meutes préhistoriques aux foyers modernes, suivez les traces paléontologiques d'une domestication qui a bouleversé l'humanité ... Read more

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Plongez dans l'histoire fascinante de l'évolution animale qui a transformé le loup sauvage en notre fidèle compagnon. Idéal pour accompagner votre promenade quotidienne, ce récit scientifique retrace la naissance d'une alliance inter-espèces absolument unique. Des premières meutes préhistoriques aux foyers modernes, suivez les traces paléontologiques d'une domestication qui a bouleversé l'humanité
... Read more
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Histoire de l’intelligence : Comment l’esprit a évolué et les machines ont commencé à penser

by Serge Thomas ...

Narrated by Serge Thomas ...

Unabridged

2 hours 9 min

Explorez l'évolution de la cognition, des premiers microbes à l'intelligence artificielle, pour mieux penser demain. Cette épopée scientifique fascinante est idéale pour transformer vos trajets en véritables moments d'apprentissage profond. Découvrez comment des organismes simples, puis des cerveaux complexes, ont résolu le défi ultime : traiter l'information pour survivre dans un monde chaotique ... Read more

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Explorez l'évolution de la cognition, des premiers microbes à l'intelligence artificielle, pour mieux penser demain. Cette épopée scientifique fascinante est idéale pour transformer vos trajets en véritables moments d'apprentissage profond. Découvrez comment des organismes simples, puis des cerveaux complexes, ont résolu le défi ultime : traiter l'information pour survivre dans un monde chaotique
... Read more
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Performance All the Way Down

Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference

by Richard O. Prum ...

Narrated by Graham Winton ...

Unabridged

13 hours 56 min

The idea that gender is a performance—a tenet of queer feminist theory since the 1990s—has spread from college classrooms to popular culture. In Performance All the Way Down, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard O. Prum brings gender performativity into conversation with genetics, development, and evolutionary biology, arguing that the sexual binary is not essential to human genes, ... Read more

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The idea that gender is a performance—a tenet of queer feminist theory since the 1990s—has spread from college classrooms to popular culture. In Performance All the Way Down, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard O. Prum brings gender performativity into conversation with genetics, development, and evolutionary biology, arguing that the sexual binary is not essential to human genes,
... Read more
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When Humans Nearly Vanished

The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano

by Donald R. Prothero ...

Narrated by Qarie Marshall ...

Unabridged

6 hours 47 min

Some 73,000 years ago, the Mount Toba supervolcano in today’s Indonesia erupted, releasing the energy of a million tons of explosives. So much ash and debris was injected into the stratosphere that it partially blocked the sun’s radiation and caused global temperatures to drop for a decade. In this book, Donald R. Prothero presents the controversial argument that the Toba catastrophe nearly wiped ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Some 73,000 years ago, the Mount Toba supervolcano in today’s Indonesia erupted, releasing the energy of a million tons of explosives. So much ash and debris was injected into the stratosphere that it partially blocked the sun’s radiation and caused global temperatures to drop for a decade. In this book, Donald R. Prothero presents the controversial argument that the Toba catastrophe nearly wiped
... Read more
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Origins of Humans

by Introbooks Team ...

Narrated by Andrea Giordani ...

Unabridged

41 min

Human evolution can be considered to be a lengthy procedure of several transformations in which the people originated from the ape-like ancestors. There are several scientific evidence that reveals that the behavioral and the physical traits that are shared by all the organisms have originated from the ape-like ancestors. They have evolved across lengthy periods of approximately six million years ... Read more

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Human evolution can be considered to be a lengthy procedure of several transformations in which the people originated from the ape-like ancestors. There are several scientific evidence that reveals that the behavioral and the physical traits that are shared by all the organisms have originated from the ape-like ancestors. They have evolved across lengthy periods of approximately six million years
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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 ...

Unabridged

12 hours 37 min

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.Richard Dawkins and J. Craig Venter ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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.Richard Dawkins and J. Craig Venter
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Solving Modern Problems With a Stone-Age Brain

Human Evolution and the Seven Fundamental Motives

by Douglas T. Kenrick, PhD, David E. Lundberg-Kenrick ...

Narrated by Chris Sorensen ...

Series series APA Life Tools
Unabridged

8 hours 48 min

Sharing stories and advice rooted in the science of evolutionary psychology, father and son authors Doug Kenrick and David Lundberg-Kenrick pinpoint the dangers of stone-age problem solving for our lives today, and present a new, systematic way to survive and be happy in the modern world.Over millennia, we humans have evolved a set of motivational systems to help us solve the seven basic problems ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Sharing stories and advice rooted in the science of evolutionary psychology, father and son authors Doug Kenrick and David Lundberg-Kenrick pinpoint the dangers of stone-age problem solving for our lives today, and present a new, systematic way to survive and be happy in the modern world.Over millennia, we humans have evolved a set of motivational systems to help us solve the seven basic problems
... Read more
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If Your Mouth Could Talk

An In-Depth Guide to Oral Health and Its Impact on Your Entire Life

by Dr. Kami Hoss ...

Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

Unabridged

7 hours 24 min

You've heard the advice: If you want to live longer, eat healthy foods and exercise daily. But there's a third piece of the puzzle, and it can add ten to fifteen years to your life.It's been right under your nose this whole time—literally.Your mouth is the gateway to your body and is the most critical organ for improving your health, from childhood onward. Your mouth is a window into the health of ... Read more

$19.99 USD

You've heard the advice: If you want to live longer, eat healthy foods and exercise daily. But there's a third piece of the puzzle, and it can add ten to fifteen years to your life.It's been right under your nose this whole time—literally.Your mouth is the gateway to your body and is the most critical organ for improving your health, from childhood onward. Your mouth is a window into the health of
... Read more
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Designing Humans

How Gene Editing Can Bring Back Old Evils and Alter the Course of Human Evolution

by Andy Renmei ...

Narrated by Martin John ...

Unabridged

34 min

This short read analyses gene editing as a revolutionary new technology that could enable the design of new 'ideal' humans.What traits would be desirable?This kind of question links back to eugenic ideas that were popular in Europe in the early 1920s. Using visual communication and design references, 'Designing Humans' critiques past eugenic propaganda and speculates on its possible come back once ... Read more

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This short read analyses gene editing as a revolutionary new technology that could enable the design of new 'ideal' humans.What traits would be desirable?This kind of question links back to eugenic ideas that were popular in Europe in the early 1920s. Using visual communication and design references, 'Designing Humans' critiques past eugenic propaganda and speculates on its possible come back once
... Read more
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Hundred Reasons Why Evolution Is True, A

English to Spanish

by Science-Based Language Learning Lab ...

Narrated by Tanya Calmwood and Alberto Rodriguez ...

Series series A Hundred Reasons Why... Language Learning Series
Unabridged

1 hour 39 min

Introduction to the "A Hundred Reasons Why..." SeriesWelcome to a fresh, captivating way to learn a new language! The "A Hundred Reasons Why..." series helps you master Spanish through topics that interest you, such as art, science, and history. Each book offers 100 carefully selected reasons that serve as concise knowledge nuggets in both English and Spanish.How It Works:- Each reason is first ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Introduction to the "A Hundred Reasons Why..." SeriesWelcome to a fresh, captivating way to learn a new language! The "A Hundred Reasons Why..." series helps you master Spanish through topics that interest you, such as art, science, and history. Each book offers 100 carefully selected reasons that serve as concise knowledge nuggets in both English and Spanish.How It Works:- Each reason is first
... Read more
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Creation and/or Creationism? What's a Catholic to Think?

by Michael D. Guinan ...

Narrated by Michael D. Guinan ...

Series series Learn25: Religion
Unabridged

3 hours 33 min

God declared creation good. But the debate raging about creation in recent decades has been anything but.If you have ever gotten lost in the storm of controversy surrounding the creationism debate, then Fr. Michael Guinan''s grounding instruction is your key to understanding.Do you believe in evolution or creation? Is man created in the image of God or the image of an ape? Should "creation science ... Read more

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God declared creation good. But the debate raging about creation in recent decades has been anything but.If you have ever gotten lost in the storm of controversy surrounding the creationism debate, then Fr. Michael Guinan''s grounding instruction is your key to understanding.Do you believe in evolution or creation? Is man created in the image of God or the image of an ape? Should "creation science
... Read more
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A Dominant Character

The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane

by Samanth Subramanian ...

Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

Unabridged

13 hours 53 min

A biography of J. B. S. Haldane, the brilliant and eccentric British scientist whose innovative predictions inspired Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.J. B. S. Haldane's life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama—from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father, who first instilled in him a devotion to the scientific method; to his time in the trenches during the First World ... Read more

$25.99 USD

A biography of J. B. S. Haldane, the brilliant and eccentric British scientist whose innovative predictions inspired Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.J. B. S. Haldane's life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama—from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father, who first instilled in him a devotion to the scientific method; to his time in the trenches during the First World
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Great Adaptations

Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved

by Kenneth Catania ...

Narrated by Chris Sorensen ...

Unabridged

7 hours 8 min

From star-nosed moles that have super-sensing snouts to electric eels that paralyze their prey, animals possess unique and extraordinary abilities. In Great Adaptations, Kenneth Catania presents an entertaining and engaging look at some of nature's most remarkable creatures. Telling the story of his biological detective work, Catania sheds light on the mysteries behind the behaviors of tentacled ... Read more

$19.99 USD

From star-nosed moles that have super-sensing snouts to electric eels that paralyze their prey, animals possess unique and extraordinary abilities. In Great Adaptations, Kenneth Catania presents an entertaining and engaging look at some of nature's most remarkable creatures. Telling the story of his biological detective work, Catania sheds light on the mysteries behind the behaviors of tentacled
... Read more
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Bully for Brontosaurus

Reflections in Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould ...

Narrated by Jonathan Sleep ...

Unabridged

17 hours 31 min

"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best." —John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review ... Read more

$29.99 USD

"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best." —John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review
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