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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 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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    • A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
    • By: Frans de Waal
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 573 ratings
    • What if our behavior actually makes us apes? What kind of apes are we....

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    • A New Look at Human Evolution
    • By: Lesley Newson, Pete Richerson
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
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    • In A Story of Us, Newson and Richerson take listeners through seven stages of human evolution, beginning seven million years ago with the apes that were the ancestors of humans and today's chimps and bonobos. The story ends in the present day and offers a glimpse into the future....

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    • Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
    • By: Donald Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 811 ratings
    • Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally....

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    • Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
    • By: Robert Wright
    • Narrated by: Greg Thornton
    • Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,876 ratings
    • Are men born to cheat? Does monogamy serve women's interests? Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics....

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    • How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
    • By: Edward Slingerland
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 246 ratings
    • While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place....

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    • The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
    • By: David M. Buss
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 293 ratings
    • “An exceptional book” (Helen Fisher) by a leading evolutionary psychologist and sex researcher that lays out a new theory of sexual conflict, exposing the roots of the dangerous dynamics that underpin men’s predatory behavior - and what can be done to address it....

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    • Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
    • By: Stephan J. Guyenet Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Aaron Abano
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 548 ratings
    • From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? Find out....

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    • How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
    • By: Kevin J. Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
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    • What makes you the way you are - and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual differences to their deepest level: in the wiring of our brains....

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    • A Story of Family, Hope, and the Genetics of Mental Illness
    • By: James Longman
    • Narrated by: James Longman
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    • Release date: 01-07-25
    • Language: English
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    • A compelling memoir by ABC News correspondent James Longman in which he discusses mental illness and trauma in families, what the latest genetic science is telling us, and how to not only persevere but thrive.

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    • By: Robert M. Sapolsky
    • Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
    • Length: 26 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-18
    • Language: English
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    • Why do human beings behave as they do? We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other? Find out...

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    • The Sexual Deviant in All of Us
    • By: Jesse Bering
    • Narrated by: Jesse Bering
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 440 ratings
    • In Perv, Jesse Bering argues that we are all sexual deviants on one level or another....

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    • The Science of a Meaningful Life
    • By: Dacher Keltner
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution....

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    • Awakening the New Human Story
    • By: Gregg Braden
    • Narrated by: Gregg Braden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 618 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author and 2018 Templeton Award nominee Gregg Braden crosses the traditional boundaries of science and spirituality to answer the timeless question at the core of our existence....

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    • By: Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins - foreword
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
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    • First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began....

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    • A Biohacker's Guide to Evolutionary Fitness, Natural Ecstasy, and Stress-Free Living
    • By: Jevan Pradas
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
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    • Perpetually bored, anxious, fatigued, and overweight, modern society has failed to deliver the happiness it promised. The remedy, Jevan Pradas argues, is in a unique synthesis of a Paleolithic lifestyle and Buddhist meditation....

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    • Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
    • By: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: Jeff Loeb
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-14
    • Language: English
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    • In this fascinating examination of the roots of human trust and virtue, a zoologist and former American editor of The Economist reveals that self-interest and mutual aid are not at all incompatible....

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