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Bestsellers
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A groundbreaking narrative that explores the ways in which biology and history have shaped our understanding of what it means to be “human”.
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Should be required reading
- By Blue Zion on 12-22-18
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- By Doug on 08-25-11
By: Jared Diamond
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Yuval Noah Harari returns with an original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods....
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Fun But With A Couple O' Caveats--
- By Gillian on 02-22-17
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Return of the God Hypothesis
- Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe
- By: Stephen C. Meyer
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling author of Darwin’s Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology....
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A Wonderful Culmination of Dr. Meyer’s Work
- By Trevor Rolls on 03-31-21
By: Stephen C. Meyer
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The Dawn of Everything
- A New History of Humanity
- By: David Graeber, David Wengrow
- Narrated by: Mark Williams
- Length: 24 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state", political violence, and social inequality—revealing new possibilities for human emancipation....
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exactly what I've been looking for
- By DankTurtle on 11-10-21
By: David Graeber, and others
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A Brief History of Intelligence
- Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
- By: Max Bennett
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI....
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I Understand Us Now
- By User# 3466054577 on 05-10-24
By: Max Bennett
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A groundbreaking narrative that explores the ways in which biology and history have shaped our understanding of what it means to be “human”.
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Should be required reading
- By Blue Zion on 12-22-18
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Compelling pre-history and emergent history
- By Doug on 08-25-11
By: Jared Diamond
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Yuval Noah Harari returns with an original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods....
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Fun But With A Couple O' Caveats--
- By Gillian on 02-22-17
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Return of the God Hypothesis
- Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe
- By: Stephen C. Meyer
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling author of Darwin’s Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology....
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A Wonderful Culmination of Dr. Meyer’s Work
- By Trevor Rolls on 03-31-21
By: Stephen C. Meyer
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The Dawn of Everything
- A New History of Humanity
- By: David Graeber, David Wengrow
- Narrated by: Mark Williams
- Length: 24 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state", political violence, and social inequality—revealing new possibilities for human emancipation....
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exactly what I've been looking for
- By DankTurtle on 11-10-21
By: David Graeber, and others
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A Brief History of Intelligence
- Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
- By: Max Bennett
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI....
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I Understand Us Now
- By User# 3466054577 on 05-10-24
By: Max Bennett
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Eve
- How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
- By: Cat Bohannon
- Narrated by: Cat Bohannon
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Stronger on reproductive bio, flimsy on sexuality
- By Elenita on 12-20-23
By: Cat Bohannon
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The Selfish Gene
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it....
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Better than print!
- By J. D. May on 07-31-12
By: Richard Dawkins
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- By: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The dinosaurs. 66 million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of our planet's great mysteries. In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years....
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"The Rise of the Scientists Who Study Dinosaurs"
- By Daniel Powell on 09-16-18
By: Steve Brusatte
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The Master Builder
- How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
- By: Alfonso Martinez Arias
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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What defines who we are? For decades, the answer has seemed obvious: our genes, the "blueprint of life." In The Master Builder, biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias argues we've been missing the bigger picture. It's not our genes that define who we are, but our cells.
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Journey of the Mind
- How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
- By: Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Why do minds exist? How did mud and stone develop into beings that can experience longing, regret, love, and compassion - beings that are aware of their own experience? Until recently, science offered few answers to these existential questions....
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Consciousness: objectively physical yet subjective
- By Jeffrey W. Rudisel on 04-16-22
By: Ogi Ogas, and others
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First Steps
- How Upright Walking Made Us Human
- By: Jeremy DeSilva
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Blending history, science, and culture, a stunning and highly engaging evolutionary story exploring how walking on two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s dominant species....
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Mammalian Bipedalism's Many Layers
- By Sarah C. on 06-07-22
By: Jeremy DeSilva
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- By: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals....
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Fantastic Book
- By Peter Jensen on 09-08-22
By: Steve Brusatte
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Aliens
- The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
- By: Jim Al-Khalili
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith, Bruce Mann, Katharine Lee McEwan, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe....
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What science thinks of extraterrestrials
- By Philomath on 06-07-17
By: Jim Al-Khalili
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Other Minds
- The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
- By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds....
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Mischief and Craft
- By Darwin8u on 08-10-17
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The Case Against Reality
- Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
- By: Donald Hoffman
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally....
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Don't buy - visual examples missing, no pdf
- By Richard Pickett on 08-26-19
By: Donald Hoffman
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- Evolution and the Meanings of Life
- By: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 27 hrs and 4 mins
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In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection....
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Sky Hooks need not apply.
- By Gary on 12-30-13
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Exercised
- Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
- By: Daniel Lieberman
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In this myth-busting book, Daniel Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a pioneering researcher on the evolution of human physical activity, tells the story of how we never evolved to exercise....
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Chock Full of Cherrypicking and Contradiction
- By Jessica Rosazza on 03-25-21
By: Daniel Lieberman
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Life on Earth
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads a brand-new edition of Life on Earth, now available as an audiobook for the first time....
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100% Pure Attenborough
- By Dave on 09-25-18
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Darwin's Doubt
- The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
- By: Stephen C. Meyer
- Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought he had explained every clue but one. Darwin knew there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain....
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Resonance aplenty. Bereft of factual value.
- By Justin M on 11-28-17
By: Stephen C. Meyer
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Most Delicious Poison
- The Story of Nature's Toxins―from Spices to Vices
- By: Noah Whiteman
- Narrated by: Noah Whiteman
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Nature’s toxins, how they evolved, and why we use and abuse them....
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Off topic
- By Stewart on 12-26-23
By: Noah Whiteman
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The Hungry Brain
- Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
- By: Stephan J. Guyenet Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cutting-edge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about it? Find out....
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Absolute Terrible
- By Innate on 06-11-17
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The World Before Us
- The New Science Behind Our Human Origins
- By: Tom Higham
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technology....
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Wonderfully Accessible
- By Deborah N on 11-02-21
By: Tom Higham
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Cave of Bones
- By: Lee Berger, John Hawks
- Narrated by: Lee Berger
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens....
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Engaging and interesting but may trigger claustrophobia
- By M on 09-03-23
By: Lee Berger, and others
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The Moral Animal
- Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
- By: Robert Wright
- Narrated by: Greg Thornton
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
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Are men born to cheat? Does monogamy serve women's interests? Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics....
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Ridiculously Insightful
- By Liron on 10-25-10
By: Robert Wright
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What Darwin Didn’t Know: The Modern Science of Evolution
- By: Scott Solomon, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Scott Solomon
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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Since the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's remarkable On the Origin of Species, the modern science of biology and genetics has added surprising new dimensions to evolutionary theory. In this course, you’ll discover what Darwin didn’t know....
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Amazing journey.
- By Amazon Customer on 01-22-19
By: Scott Solomon, and others
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The Dragons of Eden
- Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Ann Druyan
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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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....
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Surprisingly strengthened by historical context
- By RoguePisigit on 12-07-19
By: Carl Sagan
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Against the Grain
- A Deep History of the Earliest States
- By: James C. Scott
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains and governed by precursors of today's states? Find out....
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World without Women
- By Paul Richards on 04-28-18
By: James C. Scott
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The Third Chimpanzee
- The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Up to the usual high standard
- By Mark on 09-04-12
By: Jared Diamond
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The Ends of the World
- Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
- By: Peter Brannen
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Our world has ended five times: It has been broiled, frozen, poison gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids....
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A Kid's Science Book FOR ADULTS!!
- By aaron on 06-15-17
By: Peter Brannen
New releases
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The Master Builder
- How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
- By: Alfonso Martinez Arias
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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What defines who we are? For decades, the answer has seemed obvious: our genes, the "blueprint of life." In The Master Builder, biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias argues we've been missing the bigger picture. It's not our genes that define who we are, but our cells.
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Monkey to Man
- The Evolution of the March of Progress Image
- By: Gowan Dawson
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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We are all familiar with the "march of progress," the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressively taller and more erect before finally reaching the upright human form. Its emphasis on linear progress has had a decisive impact on public understanding of evolution, yet the image contradicts modern scientific conceptions of evolution as complex and branching.
By: Gowan Dawson
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The Sacred Chain
- How Understanding Evolution Leads to Deeper Faith
- By: Jim Stump
- Narrated by: Jim Stump
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In this moving and deeply thoughtful book, Jim Stump takes listeners with him on his journey to understanding evolution and reconciling it with his faith. The Sacred Chain draws on philosophy, theology, and the latest scientific research to tackle some of the biggest questions facing humanity and people of faith today
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Rees Porta on 04-09-24
By: Jim Stump
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Impossible Monsters
- Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion
- By: Michael Taylor
- Narrated by: James MacCallum
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1811, when the self-schooled daughter of a carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from Britain's southern shoreline, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had discovered the 'first' dinosaur, and over the next seventy-five years - as the science of palaeontology developed, as Charles Darwin posited theories of evolutionary biology, and as religious scholars identified the internal inconsistencies of the Scriptures - everything changed.
By: Michael Taylor
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From Prey to Predator
- An Evolutionary Tale of Hunting, Warfare, and Human Survival
- By: Josh Luberisse
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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"From Prey to Predator: An Evolutionary Tale of Hunting, Warfare, and Human Survival" is a riveting journey through time that marries anthropology, history, and survival science in a fresh and engaging way. Discover how the human species transformed from vulnerable prey into dominant predators, and explore the striking parallels between hunting and warfare as survival strategies. This captivating narrative unveils the vital role of preparedness in human survival, demonstrating why hope alone is not a survival strategy. Drawing on the rich tapestry of our ancestral past, this book explores ...
By: Josh Luberisse
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The God of Monkey Science
- People of Faith in a Modern Scientific World
- By: Janet Kellogg Ray
- Narrated by: Sheri Beth Dusek
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever since the Scopes Monkey Trial in the early twentieth century, American evangelicals have considered scientists public enemy #1. But this antipathy to modern science turned deadly during the COVID-19 crisis, when white evangelicals snubbed precautions and vaccines. Herself an evangelical Christian and a science educator, Janet Kellogg Ray explains how we got here and how to fix it.
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The Master Builder
- How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
- By: Alfonso Martinez Arias
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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What defines who we are? For decades, the answer has seemed obvious: our genes, the "blueprint of life." In The Master Builder, biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias argues we've been missing the bigger picture. It's not our genes that define who we are, but our cells.
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Monkey to Man
- The Evolution of the March of Progress Image
- By: Gowan Dawson
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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We are all familiar with the "march of progress," the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressively taller and more erect before finally reaching the upright human form. Its emphasis on linear progress has had a decisive impact on public understanding of evolution, yet the image contradicts modern scientific conceptions of evolution as complex and branching.
By: Gowan Dawson
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The Sacred Chain
- How Understanding Evolution Leads to Deeper Faith
- By: Jim Stump
- Narrated by: Jim Stump
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In this moving and deeply thoughtful book, Jim Stump takes listeners with him on his journey to understanding evolution and reconciling it with his faith. The Sacred Chain draws on philosophy, theology, and the latest scientific research to tackle some of the biggest questions facing humanity and people of faith today
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Rees Porta on 04-09-24
By: Jim Stump
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Impossible Monsters
- Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion
- By: Michael Taylor
- Narrated by: James MacCallum
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1811, when the self-schooled daughter of a carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from Britain's southern shoreline, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had discovered the 'first' dinosaur, and over the next seventy-five years - as the science of palaeontology developed, as Charles Darwin posited theories of evolutionary biology, and as religious scholars identified the internal inconsistencies of the Scriptures - everything changed.
By: Michael Taylor
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From Prey to Predator
- An Evolutionary Tale of Hunting, Warfare, and Human Survival
- By: Josh Luberisse
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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"From Prey to Predator: An Evolutionary Tale of Hunting, Warfare, and Human Survival" is a riveting journey through time that marries anthropology, history, and survival science in a fresh and engaging way. Discover how the human species transformed from vulnerable prey into dominant predators, and explore the striking parallels between hunting and warfare as survival strategies. This captivating narrative unveils the vital role of preparedness in human survival, demonstrating why hope alone is not a survival strategy. Drawing on the rich tapestry of our ancestral past, this book explores ...
By: Josh Luberisse
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The God of Monkey Science
- People of Faith in a Modern Scientific World
- By: Janet Kellogg Ray
- Narrated by: Sheri Beth Dusek
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever since the Scopes Monkey Trial in the early twentieth century, American evangelicals have considered scientists public enemy #1. But this antipathy to modern science turned deadly during the COVID-19 crisis, when white evangelicals snubbed precautions and vaccines. Herself an evangelical Christian and a science educator, Janet Kellogg Ray explains how we got here and how to fix it.