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Transcendence
- How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
- By: Gaia Vince
- Narrated by: Gaia Vince
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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How four tools enabled humanity to control its destiny What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Listeners of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution - a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones - caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture that goes back into deep time.
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A great flowing history of humankind.
- By Mr T J Lynass on 29-01-24
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Transcendence
- How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
- Narrated by: Gaia Vince
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 21-01-20
- Language: English
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The Evolution of Beauty
- How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us
- By: Richard O. Prum
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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A FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SMITHSONIAN, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed "the taste for the beautiful"—create the...
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Profound and beautiful insights
- By MR N J BEECH on 02-04-21
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The Evolution of Beauty
- How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 09-05-17
- Language: English
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A Human History of Emotion
- How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know
- By: Richard Firth-Godbehere
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us? We humans like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, who, as a species, have relied on calculation and intellect to survive. But many of the most important...
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A Human History of Emotion
- How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 02-11-21
- Language: English
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Incomplete Nature
- How Mind Emerged from Matter
- By: Terrence W. Deacon
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 24 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists unravel the molecular complexity of life, a glaring incompleteness in this scientific vision becomes apparent. The "theory of everything" that appears to be emerging includes everything but us: the feelings, meanings, consciousness, and purposes that make us (and many of our animal cousins) what we are.
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Well worth a read
- By Amazon Customer on 20-01-23
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Incomplete Nature
- How Mind Emerged from Matter
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 24 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 17-04-15
- Language: English
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Masters of the Planet
- The Search for Our Human Origins
- By: Ian Tattersall
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led to its survival while the rest became extinct. Just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become masters of the planet? Ian Tattersall, curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us deep into the fossil record to uncover what made humans so special.
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Decent exploration, unbalanced
- By Paul on 17-11-20
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Masters of the Planet
- The Search for Our Human Origins
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 12-02-19
- Language: English
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The Deep History of Ourselves
- The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
- By: Joseph LeDoux
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance26
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A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings today Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us...
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Fascinating overview the origins of humanity
- By Rd Seigne on 14-02-26
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The Deep History of Ourselves
- The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 27-08-19
- Language: English
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Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression
- By: Hector A. Garcia
- Narrated by: Seth Andrews
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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This book uses evolutionary psychology as a lens to explain religious violence and oppression. The author, a clinical psychologist, examines religious scriptures, rituals, and canon law, highlighting the many ways in which our evolutionary legacy has shaped the development of religion and continues to profoundly influence its expression.
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great work
- By Karol Machalski on 28-11-19
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Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression
- Narrated by: Seth Andrews
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 23-10-18
- Language: English
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Rethinking Consciousness
- A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
- By: Michael S. A. Graziano
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In this eye-opening work, Graziano accessibly explores how this sense of an inner being led to empathy and formed us into social beings. The theory may point the way to engineers for building consciousness artificially. Graziano discusses what a future with artificial consciousness might be like, including both advantages and risks, and what AI might mean for our evolutionary future.
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The Attention Schema
- By Antonio on 11-07-23
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Rethinking Consciousness
- A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 17-09-19
- Language: English
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Time's Second Arrow
- Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature
- By: Robert M. Hazen, Michael L. Wong
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Of the codified laws of nature, only one inscribes a direction to time: the dreaded second law of thermodynamics, which declares that the disorder of a closed system tends to increase as time passes. New shoes eventually scuff, our bodies weaken and die. Yet our senses tell us that miraculous order constantly emerges, too: children grow and learn; spontaneous patterns manifest in murmurations of starlings. Can it be true that the laws of our universe mandate only dissolution?
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Time's Second Arrow
- Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-02-26
- Language: English
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Evolution
- The Human Odyssey
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In this audiobook, The Human Odyssey, we explore the evolution of those characteristics that make us human. The first section looks at our family tree and why some branches survived and not others. Swings in climate are emerging as a factor in what traits succeeded and failed; meanwhile, DNA analyses show that Homo sapiens interbred with other human species, which played a key role in our survival.
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Great book
- By Kindle Customer on 07-01-23
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Evolution
- The Human Odyssey
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- By: Nicholas Wade
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races...
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-05-14
- Language: English
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Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love
- By: Elizabeth A. Johnson
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of human being`s relationship to God. What value does the natural world have within the framework of religious belief? The crisis of biodiversity in our day, when species are going extinct at more than 1,000 times the natural rate, renders this question acutely important.
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Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-03-26
- Language: English
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Life Changing
- How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth
- By: Helen Pilcher
- Narrated by: Helen Pilcher
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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For the last three billion years or so, life on Earth was shaped by natural forces. Evolution tended to happen slowly, with species crafted across millennia. Then, a few hundred thousand years ago, along came a bolshie, big-brained, bipedal primate we now call Homo sapiens, and with that, the Earth’s natural history came to an abrupt end. We are now living through the post-natural phase, where humans have become the leading force shaping evolution. This audiobook considers the many ways that we’ve altered the DNA of living things and changed the fate of life on earth.
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Life Changing
- How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth
- Narrated by: Helen Pilcher
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-02-20
- Language: English
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Improbable Destinies
- Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
- By: Jonathan B. Losos
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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A major new book overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth’s natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point...
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extremely entertaining and intelligible
- By Eszter Pos on 19-12-18
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Improbable Destinies
- Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 08-08-17
- Language: English
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Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Jürgen Holdorf
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
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Vor 100.000 Jahren war der Homo sapiens noch ein unbedeutendes Tier, das unauffällig in einem abgelegenen Winkel des afrikanischen Kontinents lebte. Unsere Vorfahren teilten sich den Planeten mit mindestens fünf weiteren menschlichen Spezies und die Rolle, die sie im Ökosystem spielten, war nicht größer als die von Gorillas, Libellen oder Quallen. Vor 70.000 Jahren dann vollzog sich ein mysteriöser und rascher Wandel mit dem Homo sapiens.
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Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit
- Narrated by: Jürgen Holdorf
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 09-09-13
- Language: German
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Hormonal
- The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones -- How They Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, Influence Our Choices, and Make Us Wiser
- By: Martie Haselton
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Did you know women walk more, eat less, socialize more, meet more men, dance more, and flirt more when they're ovulating? Or that PMS may have evolved to get rid of boyfriends with unfit sperm? Behind the "fickle" differences in what women find sexy about men, or what they like to wear, there's a hidden adaptive intelligence shaped over eons. Rather than making women irrational - as the conventional and irredeemably sexist wisdom goes - the female hormonal cycle has been exquisitely fine-tuned to give women the advantages they needed to succeed in our ancestral environments, and perhaps also today.
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Insights about logic behind hormones
- By Anonymous on 10-05-25
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Faith Versus Fact
- Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
- By: Jerry A. Coyne
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion - including faith, dogma, and revelation - leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions.
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Pretty good.
- By S on 13-04-24
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Faith Versus Fact
- Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 14-07-15
- Language: English
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Hacking Darwin
- Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
- By: Jamie Metzl
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives-sex, war, love, and death. At the dawn of the genetics revolution, our DNA is becoming as readable, writable, and hackable as our information technology. But as humanity starts retooling our own genetic code, the choices we make today will be the difference between realizing breathtaking advances in human well-being and descending into a dangerous and potentially deadly genetic arms race.
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Bad science but engaging nonetheless
- By Amazon Customer on 25-05-19
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Hacking Darwin
- Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 23-04-19
- Language: English
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The Very Best of Charles Darwin
- On the Origin of Species and The Voyage of the Beagle
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: MuseumAudiobooks.com Cast
- Length: 34 hrs and 50 mins
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The Very Best of Charles Darwin comprises On the Origin of Species and The Voyage of the Beagle. The first introduced the theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. The evidence was gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s, recounted in The Voyage of the Beagle, which is both a travel memoir and a scientific field journal of anthropological, biological, and geological interest.
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Everyone should read
- By Love Goats on 12-05-23
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The Very Best of Charles Darwin
- On the Origin of Species and The Voyage of the Beagle
- Narrated by: MuseumAudiobooks.com Cast
- Length: 34 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 19-08-20
- Language: English
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Togetherness
- Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life’s Greatest Collaborations
- By: Rowan Hooper
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. An awe-inspiring and mind-altering exploration of how symbiosis can change the way we understand our world, ourselves and our future From evolution to capitalism, ‘survival of the fittest’ has shaped our view of the world. But we got it wrong – and our mistake...
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Togetherness
- Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life’s Greatest Collaborations
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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