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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
- Narrado por: Nick Sagan, Ann Druyan, Clinnette Minnis
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
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Resumen del Editor
World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a Roots for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits - self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics - are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals.
Astonishing in its scope, brilliant in its insights, and absolutely compelling, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a triumph of popular science.
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The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change. The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms. For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers. Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve.
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Fascinating survey of amazing biology
- De Nerd's-eye view en 12-06-19
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Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You
- A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World
- De: Dan Riskin
- Narrado por: Dan Riskin
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin explains, it's also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our guide through the natural world at its most gloriously ruthless. Using the seven deadly sins as a road map, Riskin offers dozens of jaw-dropping examples that illuminate how brutal nature can truly be.
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Just a bunch of random animal behaviors.
- De Goddess en 05-18-23
De: Dan Riskin
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The Lives of a Cell
- Notes of a Biology Watcher
- De: Lewis Thomas
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 4 h y 12 m
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In The Lives of a Cell, Dr. Lewis Thomas opens up to the listener a universe of knowledge and perception that is perhaps not wholly unfamiliar to the research scientist; but the world he explores is also one of men and women, of complex interrelationships, old ironies, peculiar powers, and intricate languages that give identity to the alienated and direction to the dependent. This remarkable work offers a subtle, bold vision of humankind and the world around us - a sense of what gives life - from a writer who seems to draw grace and strength from the very substance of his subject.
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So enlightening and enjoyable!
- De Flora en 03-15-18
De: Lewis Thomas
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The Creative Spark
- How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
- De: Agustín Fuentes
- Narrado por: Agustín Fuentes
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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In the tradition of Jared Diamond's million-copy-selling classic Guns, Germs, and Steel, a bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question: What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth? Creativity. It is the secret of what makes humans special, hiding in plain sight.
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What's new?
- De Mark en 05-02-17
De: Agustín Fuentes
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Nature's Nether Regions
- What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves
- De: Menno Schithuizen
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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The story of evolution as you’ve never heard it before. What’s the easiest way to tell species apart? Check their genitals. Researching private parts was long considered taboo, but scientists are now beginning to understand that the wild diversity of sex organs across species can tell us a lot about evolution. Menno Schilthuizen invites listeners to join him as he uncovers the ways the shapes and functions of genitalia have been molded by complex Darwinian struggles.
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A New Favorite
- De S. Pepper en 05-15-15
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How to Build a Dinosaur
- Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever
- De: Jack Horner, James Gorman
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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In movies, in novels, in comic strips, and on television, we've all seen dinosaurs - or at least somebody's educated guess of what they would look like. But what if it were possible to build, or grow, a real dinosaur without finding ancient DNA? Jack Horner, the scientist who advised Steven Spielberg on the blockbuster film Jurassic Park and a pioneer in bringing paleontology into the 21st century, teams up with the editor of the New York Times's Science Times section to reveal exactly what's in store.
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Good book but misplaced title
- De Robert en 06-19-15
De: Jack Horner, y otros
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Why Evolution Is True
- De: Jerry A. Coyne
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact. In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design", there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned: the evidence, the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection.
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As great as everyone says it is
- De Joseph en 12-01-10
De: Jerry A. Coyne
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On Human Nature: Revised Edition
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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This revised edition of Human Nature begins a new phase in the most important intellectual controversy of this generation: Is human behavior controlled by the species' biological heritage? Does this heritage limit human destiny?
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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A Heralding Voice...
- De Douglas en 07-22-14
De: Edward O. Wilson
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The Thing with Feathers
- The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
- De: Noah Strycker
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets of bird life, we are unlocking fascinating insights into memory, relationships, game theory, and the nature of intelligence itself. The Thing with Feathers explores the astonishing homing abilities of pigeons, the good deeds of fairy-wrens, the influential flocking abilities of starlings, the deft artistry of bowerbirds, the extraordinary memories of nutcrackers, and other mysteries.
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Interesting book, terrible reader
- De MGM123 en 03-16-18
De: Noah Strycker
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Letters to a Young Scientist
- De: Edward O. Wilxon
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
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Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career - both his successes and his failures - and his motivations for becoming a biologist.
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Long on biography, short on advice
- De A. Mandelin en 08-02-18
De: Edward O. Wilxon
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Blueprint
- The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
- De: Nicholas A. Christakis
- Narrado por: Nicholas A. Christakis
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all our inventions - our tools, farms, machines, cities, nations - we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society.
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Many interesting thoughts
- De Jonas Blomberg Ghini en 06-01-19
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Broca's Brain
- Reflections on the Romance of Science
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
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Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consequences, and other provocative, fascinating quandaries of the future that we want to see today.
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Captivating Read.
- De Cheri en 02-20-18
De: Carl Sagan
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The Dragons of Eden
- Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: JD Jackson, Ann Druyan
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends - and their amazing links to recent discoveries.
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Surprisingly strengthened by historical context
- De RoguePisigit en 12-07-19
De: Carl Sagan
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Billions & Billions
- Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo, Ann Druyan
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions as how did the universe originate and how will it end, and how can we meld science and compassion to meet the challenges of the coming century?
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To The Stars
- De Judy en 12-31-19
De: Carl Sagan
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience
- A Personal View of the Search for God
- De: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan - editor
- Narrado por: Adrienne C. Moore, Ann Druyan
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design.
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Sagan's lectures about the possibility of God
- De David T. en 11-13-17
De: Carl Sagan, y otros
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Pale Blue Dot
- A Vision of the Human Future in Space
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.
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Audio Quality Choices
- De JR en 05-30-17
De: Carl Sagan
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The Demon-Haunted World
- Science as a Candle in the Dark
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
- Duración: 17 h y 23 m
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How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions.
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Some good points, but not a great book
- De William Jenks en 07-25-19
De: Carl Sagan
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Broca's Brain
- Reflections on the Romance of Science
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
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Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consequences, and other provocative, fascinating quandaries of the future that we want to see today.
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Captivating Read.
- De Cheri en 02-20-18
De: Carl Sagan
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The Dragons of Eden
- Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: JD Jackson, Ann Druyan
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends - and their amazing links to recent discoveries.
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Surprisingly strengthened by historical context
- De RoguePisigit en 12-07-19
De: Carl Sagan
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Billions & Billions
- Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo, Ann Druyan
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us. These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions as how did the universe originate and how will it end, and how can we meld science and compassion to meet the challenges of the coming century?
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To The Stars
- De Judy en 12-31-19
De: Carl Sagan
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience
- A Personal View of the Search for God
- De: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan - editor
- Narrado por: Adrienne C. Moore, Ann Druyan
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design.
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Sagan's lectures about the possibility of God
- De David T. en 11-13-17
De: Carl Sagan, y otros
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Pale Blue Dot
- A Vision of the Human Future in Space
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.
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Audio Quality Choices
- De JR en 05-30-17
De: Carl Sagan
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The Demon-Haunted World
- Science as a Candle in the Dark
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Cary Elwes, Seth MacFarlane
- Duración: 17 h y 23 m
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How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions.
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Some good points, but not a great book
- De William Jenks en 07-25-19
De: Carl Sagan
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Comet
- De: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- Narrado por: Seth MacFarlane, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan explore the origin, nature, and future of comets, and the exotic myths and portents attached to them. The authors show how comets have spurred some of the great discoveries in the history of science and raise intriguing questions about these brilliant visitors from the interstellar dark.
Were the fates of the dinosaurs and the origins of humans tied to the wanderings of a comet?
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Lots of important science and cosmic perspective
- De James Weisner en 10-10-20
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Contact
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Laurel Lefkow
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
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The future is here...in an adventure of cosmic dimension. In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who - or what - is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future - and our own.
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- De Matt en 11-28-12
De: Carl Sagan
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Cosmos
- A Personal Voyage
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.
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- De John en 11-09-17
De: Carl Sagan
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A Rare Recording of Astrophysicist Carl Sagan Discussing Planet Earth
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Carl Sagan
- Duración: 59 m
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Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934-December 20, 1996), born in Brooklyn, NY, was an American astronomer and astrophysicist. His best-known scientific contribution was his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by exposure to light. The following is a lecture Sagan gave in 1977 during which he discussed the place, scale and geometry of earth–the third planet from the Sun, formed 4.5 billion years ago–in our solar system.
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Visions for the 21st Century
- At the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations
- De: Carl Sagan
- Narrado por: Carl Sagan
- Duración: 2 h y 4 m
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This recording features the highlights of this historic 1995 event sponsored by the Temple of Understanding and includes a talk by the late cosmologist Carl Sagan. Visions for the 21st Century was a powerful forum for religious leaders, diplomats, nongovernmental organizations, and educators to present their visions for the next century.
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- De Farhad Masum en 05-17-22
De: Carl Sagan
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Murmurs of Earth
- The Voyager Interstellar Record
- De: Carl Sagan, F. D. Drake, Jon Lomberg, y otros
- Narrado por: Timothy Ferris, Ann Druyan, Nick Sagan, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
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In 1977, two extraordinary spacecraft called Voyager were launched to the stars. Affixed to each Voyager craft was a gold-coated copped phonograph record as a message to possible extra-terrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft in some distant space and time.
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Disappointed
- De JohnDoe en 07-27-19
De: Carl Sagan, y otros
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Beyond Biocentrism
- Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death
- De: Robert Lanza, Bob Berman
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza and astronomer Bob Berman take the listener on an intellectual thrill ride as they reexamine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe, and the nature of reality itself. The first step is acknowledging that our existing model of reality is looking increasingly creaky in the face of recent scientific discoveries.
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Here's the thing
- De Mikal en 11-09-18
De: Robert Lanza, y otros
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Masters of Sex
- The Life and Times of Williams Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
- De: Thomas Maier
- Narrado por: Dorie Barton
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
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Beginning in the 1950s, William Masters and Virginia Johnson convinced hundreds of people to shed their clothes and copulate—in the name of science. For more than 40 years, the pair served as the nation's top experts on love, sex, and intimacy. In this eye-opening work, critically acclaimed biographer Thomas Maier presents an unprecedented look at the research team of Masters and Johnson, their pioneering studies of intimacy, and their lasting impact on the love lives of men and women. Masters of Sex offers a titillating portrait of the team's real-life story.
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- De Shaffer en 08-15-24
De: Thomas Maier
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Death by Black Hole
- And Other Cosmic Quandaries
- De: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
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Neil deGrasse Tyson has a talent for guiding readers through the mysteries of outer space with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. This collection of his essays from Natural History magazine explores a myriad of cosmic topics. Tyson introduces us to the physics of black holes by explaining what would happen to our bodies if we fell into one; he also examines the needless friction between science and religion, and notes Earth's status as "an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos".
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- De Sarda en 04-19-07
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Cosmic Queries
- StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
- De: James Trefil, Lindsey N. Walker - editor, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrado por: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lauren Fortgang
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
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In this illuminating audiobook, Tyson and coauthor James Trefil, a renowned physicist and science popularizer, take on the big questions that humanity has been posing for millennia - How did life begin? What is our place in the universe? Are we alone? - and provide answers based on the most current data, observations, and theories.
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Not worth it
- De Daniel Earl en 03-15-21
De: James Trefil, y otros
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Black Holes
- The Key to Understanding the Universe
- De: Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw
- Narrado por: Jeff Forshaw
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe.
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- De D Co en 05-27-24
De: Brian Cox, y otros
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The Blind Watchmaker
- Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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The Blind Watchmaker, knowledgably narrated by author Richard Dawkins, is as prescient and timely a book as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the 18th-century theologian William Paley, who argued that just as a watch is too complicated and functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with their far greater complexity, be purposefully designed. Charles Darwin's brilliant discovery challenged the creationist arguments; but only Richard Dawkins could have written this elegant riposte.
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Challenging textbook more than an enjoyable listen
- De Eric en 01-15-12
De: Richard Dawkins
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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- Jonathan Saurez Ulloa
- 07-17-18
Excelente bofetada al ego especista
El humano se piensa a sí mismo como un ser superior y totalmente desligado del entorno en que vive, la cantidad de pruebas presentadas en este libro debería ser suficiente para una persona racional replantee seriamente ese tipo de pensamiento.
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- Phillip L. Hasenkamp
- 08-17-23
Fantastic. Exactly what I expected.
I gave a 4 for performance because of the awful foreword by the female with laryngitis. But this is a fantastic experience for the ears and mind.
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- Tyeen Taylor
- 03-17-19
A very important read, poor audio performance
Understanding the evolved underpinnings of our modern psychology, culture, and societal structure helps me see our failings with greater compassion, and the obstacles in our path with greater clarity. We are a species with a history and a future--a future to be defined with knowledge and wisdom, or haphazardly via vestigial tendencies however impractical they may be in a modern context.
As important as this work is, and I feel bad saying it, the reading by Sagan and Druyan's son is uninspired, and even monotonously weasly, tending to end statements in a whiny, pleading tone that undermines the authority of carefully considered words. Toward the end, I either got more used to it or he got better, but getting there was often a struggle.
Still, for the absolutely critically essential content that should be in every human's brain, the audio version is worth it. Though if you're able to read it instead, maybe better...
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- Randy Lopez
- 05-30-22
Dated but still relevant and revealing
Nicely performed as a labor of love and well worth the listen, esp. considering the time of Carl Sagan's initial writing. Well ahead of his time but right on the money on so many points.
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- rdy2try
- 07-07-24
Realizations of how all species are connected
Loved it - content and delivery. Such insights about human behaviors and how these are connected. Realization that we are just another species like many others!
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- James Weisner
- 04-22-21
Busting the myth of human uniqueness
This is a weird one. I love reading Carl & Ann pretty much no matter what they write about. But this book does start off with some sexy chimpanzee fiction. Like, a whole chapter is in the voice of chimpanzee characters, talking mostly about doing the sex. Uncomfortable. But pretty fascinating from a Jane Goodall point of view.
The subject meanders a bit but it seems like the major goal of the book is to get across the idea that nothing is truly unique about human behavior. Human behavior literally is animal behavior. All things proposed as unique to human nature has been discovered in other animals. Like tool use, language, incest taboo, etc.
One issue with the book that I hope readers will keep in mind is that group selection is presented as an explanation for some evolved traits. But group selection isn't a thing. Gene selection is the whole show. Group selection is an antiquated idea and shouldn't have shown up in this book.
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Chapter 15
No idea what is in chapter 15.
Audible plz Check chapter 15 if it belongs to this book
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Everyone should read this book!
Carl Sagan is a champion of logic and reason! I admire Sagan's work and his ability to communicate science to the public. I can't thank Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan enough for their inspirational hard work. Nick Sagan did a superb job in the audio book, bravo! Everyone should read Shadows of our forgotten ancestors. There is alot we can learn about ourselves. It's time to get to work.
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Chapter 15 not part of this book . Audible needs to correct this and install the content that’s missing.
Chapter 15 is not part of this book. It’s from a crime story of some type. Profanity laced and has sexually explicit content. Audible needs to review this as this was also listed on a previous review. Someone either made a mistake when editing or intentionally sabotaged this excellent book.
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Profoundly Enlightening
For the first time in my life, I experienced something I can only describe as Spiritual. I’ve long been a fan of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan’s works, but this book, especially with Nick Sagan’s spectacular and captivating performance, is something truly special.
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