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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 213 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 2,212 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....

    Regular price: $18.03

    • 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 4,015 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....

    Regular price: $27.00

    • 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 2,282 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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    • 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 98 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 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....

    Regular price: $28.79

    • 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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    • 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....

    Regular price: $18.05

    • 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 317 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....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • 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 129 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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    • 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 1,720 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....

    Regular price: $20.25

    • 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 608 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....

    Regular price: $24.75

    • 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 455 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....

    Regular price: $29.25

    • 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....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • 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 1,592 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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    • 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....

    Regular price: $14.95

    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 185 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....

    Regular price: $13.75