Evolutionary Biology

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    • The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
    • By: Robert Sapolsky
    • Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
    • Length: 26 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,921 ratings
    • From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic....

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    • Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Jamie Metzl
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 723 ratings
    • 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....

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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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Bernard Wood
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Bernard Wood traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the 18th century to the very latest fossil finds....

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    • Sun Eater, Book 1
    • By: Christopher Ruocchio
    • Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
    • Series: Sun Eater, Book 1
    • Length: 26 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,366 ratings
    • The galaxy remembers Hadrian Marlowe as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives - even the emperor himself - against Imperial orders....

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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 198 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 Epic Story of Animals and People in America
    • By: Dan Flores
    • Narrated by: Clark Cornell
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 341 ratings
    • Distinguished scholar Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the "wild new world" of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe....

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    • The Fundamentals of Evolution
    • By: Ned Huels
    • Narrated by: Nance
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • Join the journey to explore the evolutionary processes that shaped life on Earth, and gain a deeper understanding of how these principles impact science, medicine, and society today.

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    • Reflections in Natural History
    • By: Stephen Jay Gould
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science....

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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 2,153 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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    • How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
    • By: Leonard Shlain
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality....

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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 55,884 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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    • 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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    • Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today
    • By: Rob Dunn
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Biologist Rob Dunn reveals the crucial influence that other species have upon our health, our well-being, and our world in The Wild Life of Our Bodies - a fascinating tour through the hidden truths of nature and codependence....

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    • Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
    • By: Nick Lane
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • Author Nick Lane brings together the latest research findings in the exciting field of mitochondria research to reveal how our growing understanding of mitochondria is shedding light on how complex life evolved, why sex arose, and why we age and die....

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    • Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
    • By: Neil Shubin
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 307 ratings
    • An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins....

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    • A Radical New History of Life
    • By: David Quammen
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,186 ratings
    • Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature....

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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 303 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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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Robin Dunbar
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior - who we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our cultures....

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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 118 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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