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The Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy
- Written by: Edward J. Larson, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Edward J. Larson
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Charles Darwin's theory of organic evolution-the idea that life on earth is the product of purely natural causes, not the hand of God-set off shock waves that continue to reverberate through Western society, and especially the United States. What makes evolution such a profoundly provocative concept, so convincing to most scientists, yet so socially and politically divisive? These 12 eye-opening lectures are an examination of the varied elements that so often make this science the object of strong sentiments and heated debate.
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interesting to listen.
- By SOUMEN MONDAL on 28-10-22
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The Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy
- Narrated by: Edward J. Larson
- Series: The Great Courses: History of Science
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
- Biological Sciences · Science
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back
- The Evolution of Minds
- Written by: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of evolution, brains, and human culture.
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A great perspective!
- By Shikhar Verma on 26-02-24
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back
- The Evolution of Minds
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 07-02-17
- Language: English
- Atheism · Biological Sciences · Philosophy
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The Secret of Our Success
- How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
- Written by: Joseph Henrich
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals?
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This book is a must read/ be listened to
- By Akhil Siddharth on 05-07-21
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The Secret of Our Success
- How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 13-03-18
- Language: English
- Anthropology · Biological Sciences · Psychology
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The Moral Animal
- Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
- Written by: Robert Wright
- Narrated by: Greg Thornton
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics - as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies.
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A Brilliant Science Book
- By Vaibhav Pujari on 16-03-21
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The Moral Animal
- Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
- Narrated by: Greg Thornton
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 29-06-10
- Language: English
- Biological Sciences · Psychology · Science
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The Meme Machine
- Written by: Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins - foreword
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our distant ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began, a survival of the fittest amongst competing ideas and behaviors. Ideas and behaviors that proved most adaptive-making tools, for example, or using language - survived and flourished, replicating themselves in as many minds as possible.
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A fresh new perspective for undertaking ourselves
- By Tania on 04-04-23
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The Meme Machine
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release Date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
- Anthropology · Biological Sciences · Psychology
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
- or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
- Written by: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 23 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the 19th century and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. Though, in fact, little read, most people know what it says—at least they think they do. The Origin of Species was the first mature and persuasive work to explain how species change through the process of natural selection. Upon its publication, the book began to transform attitudes about society and religion.
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
- or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 23 hrs and 9 mins
- Release Date: 10-10-11
- Language: English
- Anthropology · Biological Sciences · Classics
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Free Agents
- How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
- Written by: Kevin J. Mitchell
- Narrated by: Kevin J. Mitchell
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free will—is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose.
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Free Agents
- How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
- Narrated by: Kevin J. Mitchell
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 03-10-23
- Language: English
- Biological Sciences · Philosophy · Psychology
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The Storytelling Animal
- How Stories Make Us Human
- Written by: Jonathan Gottschall
- Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It's easy to say that humans are "wired" for story, but why? In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. He argues that stories help us navigate life's complex social problems.
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Interesting takes on story
- By Ashwin Divakar on 05-02-25
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The Storytelling Animal
- How Stories Make Us Human
- Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Release Date: 24-09-12
- Language: English
- Biological Sciences · Popular Culture · Science
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First Peoples in a New World
- Colonizing Ice Age America
- Written by: David J. Meltzer
- Narrated by: Christopher Prince
- Length: 11 hrs
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More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology.
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First Peoples in a New World
- Colonizing Ice Age America
- Narrated by: Christopher Prince
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release Date: 15-09-11
- Language: English
- Americas · Anthropology · Archaeology
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Survival of the Prettiest
- The Science of Beauty
- Written by: Nancy Etcoff
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In Survival of the Prettiest, Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argues that beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminism - it's in our biology.
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Outdated sourecs
- By Sasank on 05-10-25
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Survival of the Prettiest
- The Science of Beauty
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release Date: 19-02-19
- Language: English
- Biological Sciences · Gender Issues · Science
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution
- How We Became Sapiens
- Written by: Silvana Condemi, Francois Savatier
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution brings us up-to-date on the exploits of all our ancient relatives. Paleoanthropologist Silvana Condemi and science journalist François Savatier consider what accelerated our evolution: Was it tools, our "large" brains, language, empathy, or something else entirely? And why are we the sole survivors among many early bipedal humans? Their conclusions reveal the various ways ancient humans live on today - from gossip as modern "grooming" to our gendered division of labor - and what the future might hold for our strange and unique species.
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Good but very biased
- By Barry O'Brien on 04-04-24
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution
- How We Became Sapiens
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 29-10-19
- Language: English
- Ancient · Archaeology · Biological Sciences
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Mother Nature
- Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
- Written by: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- Narrated by: Helen Stern
- Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Maternal instinct - the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children - has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature. But is it? In this provocative, groundbreaking audiobook, renowned anthropologist (and mother) Sarah Blaffer Hrdy shares a radical new vision of motherhood and its crucial role in human evolution. Hrdy strips away stereotypes and gender-biased myths to demonstrate that traditional views of maternal behavior are essentially wishful thinking codified as objective observation.
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Mother Nature
- Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
- Narrated by: Helen Stern
- Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 27-01-14
- Language: English
- Biological Sciences · Gender Issues · Motherhood
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Hacking Darwin
- Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
- Written 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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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
- Biological Sciences · Future Studies · Science
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Genomic Politics
- How the Revolution in Genomic Science Is Shaping American Society
- Written by: Jennifer Hochschild
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The emergence of genomic science in the last quarter century has revolutionized medicine, the justice system, and our understanding of who we are. We use genomics to determine guilt and exonerate the falsely convicted; devise new medicines; test embryos; and discover our ethnic and national roots. One might think that, given these advances, most would favor the availability of genomic tools. Yet as Jennifer Hochschild explains in Genomic Politics, the uses of genomic science are both politically charged and hotly contested.
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Genomic Politics
- How the Revolution in Genomic Science Is Shaping American Society
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 15-11-21
- Language: English
- Biological Sciences · Politics & Government
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Evolution’s Rainbow
- Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, with a New Preface
- Written by: Joan Roughgarden
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science--and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates. Evolution's Rainbow explains how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people come to differ from each other in all aspects of body and behavior. Roughgarden reconstructs primary science in light of feminist, gay, and transgender criticism and redefines our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality. A new preface shows how this witty, playful, and daring book has revolutionized our understanding of sexuality.
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Evolution’s Rainbow
- Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, with a New Preface
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Release Date: 11-09-12
- Language: English
- Anthropology · Biological Sciences
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Understanding Human Evolution
- Written by: Ian Tattersall
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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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: 22-10-24
- Language: English
- Anthropology · Biological Sciences · Science
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The Invention of Tomorrow
- A Natural History of Foresight
- Written by: Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, Adam Bulley
- Narrated by: Philip Battley
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Our ability to think about the future is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal. In The Invention of Tomorrow, cognitive scientists Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley argue that its emergence transformed humans from unremarkable primates to creatures that hold the destiny of the planet in their hands. Drawing on their own cutting-edge research, the authors break down the science of foresight, showing us where it comes from, how it works, and how it made our world.
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The Invention of Tomorrow
- A Natural History of Foresight
- Narrated by: Philip Battley
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release Date: 15-11-22
- Language: English
- Biological Sciences · Future Studies
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The Future of Humankind
- Why We Should Be Optimistic
- Written 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: 21-02-23
- Language: English
- Biological Sciences · Future Studies
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design
- Written by: Jonathan Wells Ph.D
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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The latest and most bitterly contested battle in the culture war is the controversy over Darwin and intelligent design. But much of what you've heard about it is wrong. Jonathan Wells, a battle-hardened veteran with doctorates in biology and theology, sets the record straight.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 29-01-08
- Language: English
- Biological Sciences · Christianity
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When Humans Nearly Vanished
- The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
- Written by: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Some 73,000 years ago, the Mount Toba supervolcano in toda'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 out the human race, leaving only about a thousand to ten thousand breeding pairs of humans worldwide.
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When Humans Nearly Vanished
- The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 16-10-18
- Language: English
- Archaeology · Biological Sciences
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