Social Evolution

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    • Why We Tell Stories
    • By: Christopher Booker
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of "basic stories" in the world....

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    • The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge : A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution
    • By: Terence McKenna
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,298 ratings
    • Terence McKenna hypothesizes that as the North African jungles receded, a branch of our arboreal primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began living in the open areas beyond....

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    • How Cooperation Shaped the World
    • By: Nichola Raihani
    • Narrated by: Nichola Raihani
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and why cooperation is key to our future survival....

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    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,310 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

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    • By: David Reich
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,385 ratings
    • Drawing upon revolutionary findings and unparalleled scientific studies, Who We Are and How We Got Here is a captivating glimpse into humankind - where we came from and what that says about our lives today....

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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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    • The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Revised and Updated Edition)
    • By: Jean Manco
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Who are the Europeans? Where did they come from? New research in the fields of archaeology and linguistics, a revolution in the study of genetics, and cutting-edge analysis of ancient DNA are dramatically changing our picture of prehistory....

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    • The Search for Our Human Origins
    • By: Ian Tattersall
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack....

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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 2,154 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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    • The Evolution of Minds
    • By: Daniel C. Dennett
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 869 ratings
    • What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists....

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    • By: Charles Darwin
    • Narrated by: David Case
    • Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • Well more than a century after its first publication, The Origin of Species is still a powerful and fascinating read....

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    • The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
    • By: David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
    • Narrated by: David Petraeus, Robert Fass
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time—collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945....

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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 Book about the Mysteries of History; Empires, the Dawn of Civilization, Epic Conflict and Tragic Collapses of Societies, Cultures, and Kingdoms. (Epic History)
    • By: Bo Carson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Echo of Ancient Civilizations, a Book by Bo Carson, is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking to walk in the path of the ancient world. With...

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    • The Science of Beauty
    • By: Nancy Etcoff
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argues that beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminism - it's in our biology....

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    • Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
    • By: Nicholas Wade
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 931 ratings
    • Just in the last three years, a flood of new scientific findings, driven by revelations discovered in the human genome, has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries....

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    • Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Jamie Metzl
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 723 ratings
    • From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives-sex, war, love, and death....

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    • The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
    • By: Venki Ramakrishnan
    • Narrated by: John Moraitis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. One of the most difficult moments of childhood must be when each of us first realizes that not only we but all our loved ones will die—and there is nothing we can do about it.

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