Biology Biography

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    • By: Bill Schutt
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • Eating one's own kind is a completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans....

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    • An Unauthorized Biography
    • By: Rebecca M. Jordan-Young, Katrina Karkazis
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Testosterone is a familiar villain, a ready explanation for innumerable social phenomena, from the stock market crash and the overrepresentation of men in prisons to male dominance in business and politics. It's a lot to pin on a simple molecule....

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    • The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
    • By: Venki Ramakrishnan
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 650 ratings
    • Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,872 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
    • By: Sue Black
    • Narrated by: Angela Dawe
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 639 ratings
    • For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, renowned forensic scientist Professor Sue Black presents a deeply humane introduction to the reality of death in our lives, for anyone seeking a clear-eyed guide to a subject that touches us all....

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    • Inside the Mind of an American Family
    • By: Robert Kolker
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,193 ratings
    • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with 12 children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Hope Jahren
    • Narrated by: Hope Jahren
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,027 ratings
    • An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime collaboration, in work and in life; and a stunningly fresh look at plants....

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    • How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
    • By: Donna Jackson Nakazawa
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,190 ratings
    • The emotional trauma we suffer as children not only shapes our emotional lives as adults but also affects our physical health and overall well-being....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 261 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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    • A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
    • By: Sabrina Imbler
    • Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: How Far the Light Reaches invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live.

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    • Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
    • By: Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,373 ratings
    • The cheapest, simplest, most effective way of manipulating DNA ever known, CRISPR may well give us the cure to HIV, genetic diseases, and some cancers....

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    • Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
    • By: Patrik Svensson
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 626 ratings
    • Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish - the eel - and a reflection on the human condition....

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    • By: Charles Darwin
    • Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
    • Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 338 ratings
    • I hate every wave of the ocean', the seasick Charles Darwin wrote to his family during his five-year voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle....

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    • The Classic Book on the Major Discoveries of the Microscopic World
    • By: Paul de Kruif
    • Narrated by: Michael Quinlan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • This science classic by Paul de Kruif chronicles the pioneering bacteriological work of the first scientists to see and learn from the microscopic world....

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    • By: Timothy B. Tyson
    • Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 517 ratings
    • Mississippi, 1955: 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant....

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    • Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
    • By: Amy Shira Teitel
    • Narrated by: Amy Shira Teitel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space....

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    • A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
    • By: Bijal P. Trivedi
    • Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
    • Length: 20 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children. Now it could be the key to healing millions with genetic diseases of every type - from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to diabetes and sickle cell anemia....

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    • How I Found Truth and Magic in America's Most Misunderstood Creatures
    • By: Steve Searles, Chris Erskine
    • Narrated by: Basil Sands
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In the late 1990s, the town of Mammoth Lakes, California, hired Steve Searles as a hunter to cull half its troublesome bear population. But as he began to prepare for the grim task, the bears soon won him over, and Searles realized there had to be a better way.

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    • 1850 to the Present and Beyond
    • By: Debb Boom Wateren
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-25
    • Language: English
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    • Much of today's telecom tech – was invented by a woman. She was a very famous actress in her day. Can you name her? One famous photograph of a ...

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    • Madness, Obsession, and the Hunt for the World Record Tarpon
    • By: Monte Burke
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • In the late 1970s and early 1980s, something unique happened in the quiet little town on the west coast of Florida known as Homosassa. The best fly anglers in the world gathered to chase the same holy grail - the world record for the most glamorous and coveted fly-rod species, the tarpon....

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