Human Social Evolution Anthropology

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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
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    • 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 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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    • 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 12,310 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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    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Bernard Wood
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,577 ratings
    • Jared Diamond explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world...and the means to irrevocably destroy it....

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    • By: Lee Berger, John Hawks
    • Narrated by: Lee Berger
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens....

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    • Making of the Human Mind
    • By: Colin Renfrew
    • Narrated by: Robert Ian MacKenzie
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-27-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • In this passionately argued work, Colin Renfrew offers a concise summary of prehistory while challenging the very definition of prehistory itself....

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    • How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
    • By: Brian Fagan
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 571 ratings
    • Best-selling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling....

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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 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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    • 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 124 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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    • How Cooking Made Us Human
    • By: Richard Wrangham
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 915 ratings
    • Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability....

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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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    • 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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    • An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid
    • By: Gregory Forth
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, anthropologist Gregory Forth came across people talking about half-apelike, half-humanlike creatures that once lived in a cave on the slopes of a nearby volcano....

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    • Busting Myths About Human Nature
    • By: Agustín Fuentes
    • Narrated by: Korey Jackson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields, including anthropology, biology, and psychology, Fuentes devises a myth-busting toolkit to dismantle persistent fallacies about the validity of biological races, the innateness of violence, and the nature of monogamy, sex, and gender....

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    • Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
    • By: David P. Barash
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
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    • For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P. Barash, there are even more things we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex the best minds in biology. Homo Mysterious examines a number of these evolutionary mysteries....

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