Human History Evolution

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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 858 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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    • From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
    • By: Robert N. Bellah
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition—a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living....

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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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    • Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
    • By: Max S. Bennett
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 347 ratings
    • Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI....

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    • From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved
    • By: Bret Stetka
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • In A History of the Human Brain, popular science writer Bret Stetka reveals how the evolution of the brain made us human—and where it may lead us to next....

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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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    • By: Ian Tattersall
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution.

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    • A Hopeful History
    • By: Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton
    • Narrated by: Rutger Bregman, Thomas Judd
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,137 ratings
    • If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the laws that shape our lives....

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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 875 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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    • The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
    • By: Terence McKenna
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,320 ratings
    • Terence McKenna hypothesizes that as the North African jungles receded, a branch of our arboreal primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began living in the open areas beyond....

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    • Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI
    • By: Max Bennett
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A Brief History of Brains bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be....

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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 12,494 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 DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
    • By: Christine Kenneally
    • Narrated by: Justine Eyre
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • The Invisible History of the Human Race draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where we may be going....

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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 35 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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    • The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
    • By: Lydia Pyne
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • In Seven Skeletons, historian of science Lydia Pyne explores how seven famous fossils of our ancestors have the social cachet they enjoy today....

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    • A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
    • By: Neil Shubin
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,044 ratings
    • To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources....

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    • How Upright Walking Made Us Human
    • By: Jeremy DeSilva
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • Blending history, science, and culture, a stunning and highly engaging evolutionary story exploring how walking on two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s dominant species....

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