Biology Genetics

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    • How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance
    • By: Nessa Carey
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 476 ratings
    • Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth....

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    • How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
    • By: George M. Church, Ed Regis
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • A Harvard biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life....

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    • 3rd Edition
    • By: Tara Rodden Robinson PhD, Lisa Spock PhD CGC
    • Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • This new edition of Genetics for Dummies serves as a perfect course supplement for students pursuing degrees in the sciences. It provides science lovers of all skill levels with easy-to-follow and easy-to-understand information about this exciting and constantly evolving field....

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    • The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
    • By: Carl Zimmer
    • Narrated by: Joe Ochman
    • Length: 20 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 863 ratings
    • Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation....

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    • A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
    • By: Nathan H. Lents
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,281 ratings
    • We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often - 200 times more often than a dog does? Find out more....

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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 210 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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    • Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
    • By: Riley Black
    • Narrated by: Wren Mack
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • A gorgeously composed look at the longstanding relationship between prehistoric plants and life on Earth.

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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 2,199 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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    • The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
    • By: Michael J. Behe
    • Narrated by: Marc William
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • Naming Darwin's Black Box to the National Review's list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the 20th century, George Gilder wrote that it "overthrows Darwin at the end of the 20th century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning"....

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    • The Science of Beauty
    • By: Nancy Etcoff
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 311 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 Strange Relationship Between Peace and Violence in Human Evolution
    • By: Richard Wrangham
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • The Goodness Paradox gives a new and powerful argument for how and why the uncanny combination of peacefulness and violence crystallized after our ancestors acquired language in Africa a quarter of a million years ago....

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    • By: Ernst Mayr
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • What Evolution Is poses the questions at the heart of evolutionary theory and considers how our improved understanding of evolution has affected the viewpoints and values of modern man....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: David W. Deamer
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • It seems likely that scientists will someday discover how life can emerge on habitable planets like the early Earth and Mars. In Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know, David W. Deamer has written a comprehensive guide to the origin of life that is organized in three sections....

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    • How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
    • By: David Sloan Wilson
    • Narrated by: René Ruiz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • With stories that entertain as much as they inform, renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson outlines the basic principles of evolution and shows how, when properly understood, they can illuminate the length and breadth of creation, from the origin of life to the nature of religion....

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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 646 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: Charles Darwin
    • Narrated by: David Case
    • Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 305 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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    • Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved
    • By: Kenneth Catania
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites - such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg....

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    • How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
    • By: Alanna Collen
    • Narrated by: Cat Gould
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi....

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