Genetic Politic

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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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    • By: David Reich
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,385 ratings
    • 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 Autism Drives Human Invention
    • By: Simon Baron-Cohen
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire....

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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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    • 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 931 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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    • How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are
    • By: Libby Copeland
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 482 ratings
    • A deeply reported look at the rise of home genetic testing and the seismic shock it has had on individual lives....

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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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    • 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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    • How Stories Make Us Human
    • By: Jonathan Gottschall
    • Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • 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....

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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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    • The Evolution of Minds
    • By: Daniel C. Dennett
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 869 ratings
    • What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists....

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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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    • 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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    • The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Revised and Updated Edition)
    • By: Jean Manco
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • Who are the Europeans? Where did they come from? New research in the fields of archaeology and linguistics, a revolution in the study of genetics, and cutting-edge analysis of ancient DNA are dramatically changing our picture of prehistory....

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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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    • The Evolution of Human Sexuality
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • There's no one better qualified than Jared Diamond to explain the evolutionary forces that operated on our ancestors to make us sexually different. With wit and examples, he explains how our sexuality has been as crucial as our large brains and upright posture in our rise to human status....

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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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    • By: Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins - foreword
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began....

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    • Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict
    • By: Donna Hicks PhD
    • Narrated by: Margaret Strom
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • The desire for dignity is universal and powerful. It is a motivating force behind all human interaction - in families, communities, the business world, and relationships at the international level....

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    • The Search for Our Human Origins
    • By: Ian Tattersall
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack....

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