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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 248 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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    • 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 74 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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    • 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 636 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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    • 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 444 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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    • Solving Biotech’s Biggest Problems in Kitchens and Garages
    • By: Marcus Wohlsen
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Champions of synthetic biology believe that turning genetic code into Lego-like blocks could solve challenges in medicine, energy, and environmental protection....

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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 165 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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    • 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 771 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 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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    • 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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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: David W. Deamer
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • It seems likely that scientists will someday discover how life can emerge on habitable planets like the early Earth and Mars. In Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know, David W. Deamer has written a comprehensive guide to the origin of life that is organized in three sections....

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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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    • DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
    • By: Stephen C. Meyer
    • Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
    • Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 528 ratings
    • This controversial and compelling audiobook from Dr. Stephen C. Meyer presents a convincing new case for intelligent design based on revolutionary discoveries in science and DNA....

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    • The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Henry Leyva
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,433 ratings
    • The author of the best seller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories....

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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 16,716 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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    • The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
    • By: Jordan Ellenberg
    • Narrated by: Jordan Ellenberg
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of How Not to Be Wrong - himself a world-class geometer - comes a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything....

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    • The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
    • By: Dan Levitt
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms than all the grains of sand in the earth’s deserts. If you weigh 150 pounds, you’ve got enough carbon to make 25 pounds of charcoal....

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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 616 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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    • How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
    • By: David Sloan Wilson
    • Narrated by: René Ruiz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • With stories that entertain as much as they inform, renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson outlines the basic principles of evolution and shows how, when properly understood, they can illuminate the length and breadth of creation, from the origin of life to the nature of religion....

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    • The Unity of Knowledge
    • By: Edward O. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
    • Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities....

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