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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 99 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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    • 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 4,020 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 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 214 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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    • 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 2,216 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 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 616 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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    • 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 34 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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    • Evolution, Health, and Disease
    • By: Daniel E. Lieberman
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,722 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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    • 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 99 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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    • 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 318 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 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 2,284 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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    • 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 7 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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    • 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 280 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 130 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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    • 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 27 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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    • The New Science of Human Individuality
    • By: David J. Linden
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Inspired by the abundance of unique personalities available on dating websites, a renowned neuroscientist examines the science of what makes you, you....

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    • The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,594 ratings
    • Jared Diamond explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world...and the means to irrevocably destroy it....

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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 333 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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    • Through the Dreamed of Arrival of the Rehabilitating Biological Explanation of the Human Condition
    • By: Jeremy Griffith
    • Narrated by: Tim Macartney-Snape
    • Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The world is in crisis! What is the solution? Ultimately, we have to find the redeeming, and thus transforming, understanding of our psychologically troubled human condition....

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    • Making of the Human Mind
    • By: Colin Renfrew
    • Narrated by: Robert Ian MacKenzie
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-27-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • In this passionately argued work, Colin Renfrew offers a concise summary of prehistory while challenging the very definition of prehistory itself....

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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 459 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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