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    • The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
    • By: Robert Sapolsky
    • Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
    • Length: 26 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,931 ratings
    • From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic....

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    • A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
    • By: Nathan H. Lents
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,267 ratings
    • We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often - 200 times more often than a dog does? Find out more....

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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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,157 ratings
    • 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 Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
    • By: Alanna Collen
    • Narrated by: Cat Gould
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi....

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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 201 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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    • How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
    • By: Cat Bohannon
    • Narrated by: Cat Bohannon
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • Ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting, and groundbreaking, Eve is a landmark book, offering a true paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is and why it matters....

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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 305 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 Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
    • By: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: David Baker
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same - a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences....

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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 120 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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    • A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance
    • By: Kenneth Kamler MD
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • Physiological constraints confine our bodies to less than one-fifth of the earth's surface. Beyond that fraction lie the extremes. What happens when we go to them? Find out....

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    • Bird Catching, Cave Art & The Cognitive Revolution
    • By: Clive Finlayson
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a "cognitive revolution" (c. 50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing archaic Homo species....

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    • By: Scientific American
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • We humans are a strange bunch. We have self-awareness and yet often act on impulses that remain hidden. How did we get here? What is to become of us? In this audiobook, Becoming Human, we look at what this data has to tell us about who we are....

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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 23 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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    • Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
    • By: Sue Black
    • Narrated by: Sue Black
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black takes us on a guided tour of the human skeleton, explaining how each person's life history is revealed in their bones....

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    • Evolution, Health, and Disease
    • By: Daniel Lieberman
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,711 ratings
    • In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years....

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    • An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
    • By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, The Song of The Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration of what it means to be human....

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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 439 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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    • 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: 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 328 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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    • How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses
    • By: Jackie Higgins
    • Narrated by: Joan Walker
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • There is a scientific revolution stirring in the field of human perception. Research has shown that the extraordinary sensory powers of our animal friends can help us better understand the same powers that lie dormant within us....

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