Human Genetic Engineering

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
    • By: V. S. Ramachandran
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 609 ratings
    • Richard Dawkins dubbed V. S. Ramachandran the "Marco Polo of neuroscience". Now, in a major new work, Ramachandran sets his sights on the mystery of human uniqueness....

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    • The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
    • By: Adam Rutherford
    • Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 817 ratings
    • In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species - births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away - until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Listen to learn more....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 2,264 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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    • Progress and Controversy
    • By: Scientific American
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • Genetic engineering, which refers to the direct manipulation of DNA, became a reality in the 1970s. In this audiobook, we take a look at how far the field has come, starting with a revolutionary gene-editing tool called CRISPR that’s taking the research world by storm....

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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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    • 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 93 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 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 Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry
    • By: S. Joshua Swamidass
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • In The Genealogical Adam and Eve, S. Joshua Swamidass explains how it's possible for Adam and Eve to be rightly identified as the ancestors of everyone....

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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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    • The Human Odyssey
    • By: Scientific American
    • Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • The complex story of human evolution is a tale seven million years in the making. Each new discovery adds to or revises our story and our understanding of how we came to be the way we are....

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    • The Unknown History of Human Heredity
    • By: Theodore M. Porter
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes....

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    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,309 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

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    • How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
    • By: Pat Shipman
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Michael J. Benton
    • Narrated by: Peter Larkin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Here is the extraordinary story of the unfolding of life on Earth, told by Michael J. Benton, a world-renowned authority on biodiversity....

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