Biological Anthropology

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    • The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
    • By: Adam Rutherford
    • Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 820 ratings
    • In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species - births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away - until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Listen to learn more....

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    • By: David Reich
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
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    • Drawing upon revolutionary findings and unparalleled scientific studies, Who We Are and How We Got Here is a captivating glimpse into humankind - where we came from and what that says about our lives today....

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    • How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
    • By: Joseph Henrich
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 305 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
    • By: Robert Wald Sussman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Robert Wald Sussman explains why....

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    • The Fates of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,157 ratings
    • Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns....

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    • By: Charles Darwin
    • Narrated by: David Case
    • Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • Well more than a century after its first publication, The Origin of Species is still a powerful and fascinating read....

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    • An Earthly Cosmology
    • By: David Abram
    • Narrated by: David Abram
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 256 ratings
    • With the audacity of its vision and the luminosity of its prose, Becoming Animal sets a new benchmark for the human appraisal of our place in the whole....

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    • A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War, and the Evolution of Us
    • By: Adam Rutherford
    • Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • Evolutionary theory has long established that humans are animals: Modern Homo sapiens are primates who share an ancestor with monkeys and other great apes. Our genome is 98 percent identical to a chimpanzee's. And yet we think of ourselves as exceptional. Are we? Find out....

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    • The New Science of Human Evolution
    • By: Eugene E. Harris
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In Ancestors in Our Genome, molecular anthropologist Eugene E. Harris presents us with a complete and up-to-date account of the evolution of the human genome and our species....

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    • Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
    • By: Eduardo Kohn
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 08-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology....

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    • From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved
    • By: Bret Stetka
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • In A History of the Human Brain, popular science writer Bret Stetka reveals how the evolution of the brain made us human—and where it may lead us to next....

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    • The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory
    • By: Michael Christopher Carroll
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • Strictly off limits to the public, Plum Island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests, ponds - and the deadliest germs that have ever roamed the planet....

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    • The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science
    • By: John Brockman
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain, Antony Ferguson, Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
    • By: Sue Black
    • Narrated by: Sue Black
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • Internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black takes us on a guided tour of the human skeleton, explaining how each person's life history is revealed in their bones....

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    • Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
    • By: Nicholas Wade
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 932 ratings
    • Just in the last three years, a flood of new scientific findings, driven by revelations discovered in the human genome, has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries....

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    • What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
    • By: Adam Rutherford
    • Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • Racist pseudoscience is on the rise - fueling hatred, feeding nationalism, and seeping into our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even the well-intentioned repeat stereotypes based on "science", because cutting-edge genetics are hard to grasp - and easy to distort....

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    • A Brief History of Humankind
    • By: Yuval Noah Harari
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Sapiens
    • Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55,964 ratings
    • A groundbreaking narrative that explores the ways in which biology and history have shaped our understanding of what it means to be “human”.

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    • An Introductory Series, Book 27
    • By: Connor Whiteley
    • Narrated by: Connor Whiteley
    • Series: An Introductory Series
    • Length: 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-19
    • Language: English
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    • As we explore together the amazing world of biological psychology and investigate how hormones, evolution, and many more interesting aspects of ourselves influence our behavior in an engaging conversational tone....

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    • A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
    • By: Frans de Waal
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 573 ratings
    • What if our behavior actually makes us apes? What kind of apes are we....

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