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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 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
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    • 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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    • 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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    • A New Scientific Exploration
    • By: Shane O'Mara
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • In this captivating book, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains, and to appreciate the advantages of this uniquely human skill....

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    • By: Edward O. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • By studying fields as diverse as paleontology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience, Wilson demonstrates that human creativity began over 100,000 years ago in the Paleolithic Age....

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    • Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict
    • By: Donna Hicks PhD
    • Narrated by: Margaret Strom
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
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    • The desire for dignity is universal and powerful. It is a motivating force behind all human interaction - in families, communities, the business world, and relationships at the international level....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 202 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are
    • By: Bill Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Alex Boyles
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 289 ratings
    • Why are you attracted to a certain “type?” Why are you a morning person? Why do you vote the way you do? From a witty new voice in popular science comes a clever, life-changing look at what makes you you.

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    • The Unknown History of Human Heredity
    • By: Theodore M. Porter
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
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    • In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes....

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    • The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
    • By: Cecilia Heyes
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
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    • As Cognitive Gadgets makes clear, from birth our malleable human minds can learn through culture not only what to think but how to think it....

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    • A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
    • By: Michael S. A. Graziano
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Focusing attention can help an animal find food or flee a predator. It also may have led to consciousness. Tracing evolution over millions of years, Michael S. A. Graziano uses examples from the natural world to show how neurons first allowed animals to develop simple forms of attention....

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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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Margaret J. Snowling
    • Narrated by: Heather Wilds
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
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    • Since dyslexia was first described in the British Medical Journal in 1896, there has been debate about the definitions and diagnostic procedures used, with some casting doubt on its very existence....

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    • The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe
    • By: Jim Davies
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
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    • Professor Jim Davies's fascinating and highly accessible book, Riveted, reveals the evolutionary underpinnings of why we find things compelling....

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    • How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think
    • By: Douglas T. Kenrick, Vladas Griskevicius
    • Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • When it comes to making decisions, the classic view is that humans are eminently rational. But growing evidence suggests we are often irrational, biased, and occasionally even moronic....

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