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    • How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
    • By: George M. Church, Ed Regis
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • A Harvard biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life....

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    • With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
    • By: Erwin Schrödinger, Roger Penrose - foreword
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings
    • Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the 20th century and the distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology....

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    • The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
    • By: Michael J. Behe
    • Narrated by: Marc William
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • Naming Darwin's Black Box to the National Review's list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the 20th century, George Gilder wrote that it "overthrows Darwin at the end of the 20th century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning"....

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    • How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed
    • By: Douglas Axe
    • Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 311 ratings
    • Throughout his distinguished and unconventional career, engineer-turned-molecular-biologist Douglas Axe has been asking the questions that much of the scientific community would rather silence....

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    • Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
    • By: Paul Davies
    • Narrated by: George K. Wilson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization....

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    • The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
    • By: Venki Ramakrishnan
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 635 ratings
    • Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome....

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    • A Science of Life Without Free Will
    • By: Robert M. Sapolsky
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 721 ratings
    • One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences.

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    • When Humans Transcend Biology
    • By: Ray Kurzweil
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 437 ratings
    • For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....

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    • Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
    • By: Sherwin B. Nuland
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease....

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    • How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
    • By: Lisa Randall
    • Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 184 ratings
    • The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation....

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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 22 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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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Robin Dunbar
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior - who we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our cultures....

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    • Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
    • By: Patrik Svensson
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 612 ratings
    • Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish - the eel - and a reflection on the human condition....

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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 4 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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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,682 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning
    • By: Daniel Bor
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Consciousness is our gateway to experience....

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    • A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
    • By: Natalie Angier
    • Narrated by: Nike Doukas
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy....

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    • By: Edward O. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • With characteristic pungency and simplicity of style, the author of Sociobiology challenges old prejudices and current misconceptions about the nature-nurture debate....

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • An accessible guide to more than 95 of the most important discoveries and theories in the history of biology. Why do bees know how to dance? Where do plants get sugar? How do animals know their mothers? Who discovered germs? Find out....

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