Human 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 4,020 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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    • 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 214 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 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 2,217 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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    • On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
    • By: Armand Marie Leroi
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it....

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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 99 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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    • 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 2,284 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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    • 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 318 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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    • By: Danielle Radin
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This book is designed to expand your knowledge and proficiency in the area of trichology. The information written along with the experience gained ...

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    • Bird Catching, Cave Art & The Cognitive Revolution
    • By: Clive Finlayson
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a "cognitive revolution" (c. 50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing archaic Homo species....

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    • Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
    • By: Rob Dunn
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Biologist Rob Dunn's Every Little Thing is the story of man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys....

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    • A complete Guide
    • By: Dan Wilson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-24
    • Language: English
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    • "Human Cell Organelles: A Complete Guide" is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the various organelles found in human cells, their functions, ...

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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 21 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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    • A Guide for Occupants
    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,922 ratings
    • Bill Bryson, best-selling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-listen owner's manual for everybody....

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    • The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
    • By: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: David Baker
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same - a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences....

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    • A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance
    • By: Kenneth Kamler MD
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Physiological constraints confine our bodies to less than one-fifth of the earth's surface. Beyond that fraction lie the extremes. What happens when we go to them? Find out....

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    • An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
    • By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
    • Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 894 ratings
    • From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells....

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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 130 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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