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 4,301 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 12,354 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 1,397 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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    • How New Ideas Emerge
    • By: Matt Ridley
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 760 ratings
    • The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch - the endless fascination human beings have with design rather than evolution....

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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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    • 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 2,162 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 873 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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    • 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 203 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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    • 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 934 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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    • Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
    • By: Laurence Gonzales
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • Whether you are climbing a mountain or the corporate ladder, Everyday Survival will change the way you view your choices in our complex, dangerous, and quickly changing world....

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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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    • 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 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 64 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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    • By: Ian Tattersall
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution.

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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 512 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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