Bestsellers
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Proto
- How One Ancient Language Went Global
- By: Laura Spinney
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall530
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Performance477
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Story477
Bloomsbury presents Proto by Laura Spinney, read by Emma Spurgin-Hussey The enthralling story of how today’s largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world’s population, descended from one ancient dialect. Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit...
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Interesting subject
- By Denise on 11-17-25
By: Laura Spinney
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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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Overall9,031
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Performance7,626
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Story7,547
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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Lifespan
- Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
- By: David Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrated by: David Sinclair
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7,581
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Performance6,481
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Story6,447
Audio Bonus! Includes exclusive conversations with the authors! A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Brilliant and enthralling.” —The Wall Street Journal A paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time’s most influential people. It’s a seemingly...
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Incredible
- By Nikolai B.G on 09-13-19
By: David Sinclair, and others
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,007
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Performance5,267
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Story5,220
2017 Audie Award Finalist for Non-Fiction The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how...
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It's a Wonderful Book
- By JKC on 06-02-16
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
- By: David Reich
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,444
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Performance1,241
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Story1,226
A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archaeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand...
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Great Book, No Maps Available thru Audible
- By Jane W. on 07-15-18
By: David Reich
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Original Sin
- On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness
- By: Kathryn Paige Harden
- Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Story13
A daring and intimate exploration of how genetics complicates our ideas about blame, punishment, and moral responsibility, from acclaimed psychologist and author of The Genetic Lottery Kathryn Paige Harden. “An extraordinary book, the very best of science writing, because it is about not just...
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A must read!
- By Louise Clemmer on 05-15-26
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Proto
- How One Ancient Language Went Global
- By: Laura Spinney
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall530
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Performance477
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Story477
Bloomsbury presents Proto by Laura Spinney, read by Emma Spurgin-Hussey The enthralling story of how today’s largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world’s population, descended from one ancient dialect. Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit...
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Interesting subject
- By Denise on 11-17-25
By: Laura Spinney
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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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Overall9,031
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Performance7,626
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Story7,547
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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Lifespan
- Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
- By: David Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrated by: David Sinclair
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7,581
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Performance6,481
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Story6,447
Audio Bonus! Includes exclusive conversations with the authors! A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Brilliant and enthralling.” —The Wall Street Journal A paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time’s most influential people. It’s a seemingly...
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Incredible
- By Nikolai B.G on 09-13-19
By: David Sinclair, and others
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,007
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Performance5,267
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Story5,220
2017 Audie Award Finalist for Non-Fiction The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how...
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It's a Wonderful Book
- By JKC on 06-02-16
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
- By: David Reich
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,444
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Performance1,241
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Story1,226
A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archaeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand...
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Great Book, No Maps Available thru Audible
- By Jane W. on 07-15-18
By: David Reich
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Original Sin
- On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness
- By: Kathryn Paige Harden
- Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Story13
A daring and intimate exploration of how genetics complicates our ideas about blame, punishment, and moral responsibility, from acclaimed psychologist and author of The Genetic Lottery Kathryn Paige Harden. “An extraordinary book, the very best of science writing, because it is about not just...
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A must read!
- By Louise Clemmer on 05-15-26
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Genome
- The Autobiography of a Species In 23 Chapters
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall654
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Performance547
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Story539
“Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. . . . . He addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the...
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Still useful today.
- By Gary on 05-21-12
By: Matt Ridley
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
- The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall904
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Performance767
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Story759
A National Geographic Best Book of the Year In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species - births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away - until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come...
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I wish this book was in American high schools.
- By melody sheldon on 03-31-19
By: Adam Rutherford
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The Genetic Book of the Dead
- A Darwinian Reverie
- By: Richard Dawkins, Jana Lenzová
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance16
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Story16
Bloomsbury presents The Genetic Book of the Dead, written and read by Richard Dawkins. From one of the world’s great science writers, a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history. In this groundbreaking new approach to the evolution of all life, Richard Dawkins shows how...
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Dawkins does it yet again!
- By Aviv Ben Zeev on 12-03-24
By: Richard Dawkins, and others
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The Cosmic Serpent
- DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
- By: Jeremy Narby
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,795
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Performance1,611
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Story1,602
This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune said might herald "a Copernican revolution for the life sciences", leads the listener through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge. In a first-person narrative of scientific discovery that...
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Very Good Religious Text
- By Blair K. Hartman on 08-09-17
By: Jeremy Narby
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Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution
- Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You and Your Waistline
- By: Steven R. Gundry
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall927
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Performance784
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Story768
Does losing weight and staying healthy feel like a battle? Well, it's really a war. Your enemies are your own genes, backed by millions of years of evolution, and the only way to win is to outsmart them. From the renowned surgeon and founder of Gundry MD, this revolutionary book shares the...
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Hard to know what to think
- By Innate on 06-26-17
By: Steven R. Gundry
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The Genetic Lottery
- Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
- By: Kathryn Paige Harden
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall217
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Performance172
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Story170
In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different....
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Mix of Genetic Science and Ideology
- By James on 10-12-21
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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered
- The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins
- By: Paul Pettitt
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall96
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Performance83
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Story83
Who are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens, and how does our species differ from the extinct hominins that came before us? In this accessible account palaeoarchaeologist Paul Pettitt shows how the latest scientific advances, especially in genetics, are revolutionizing our understanding of...
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Good current overview of understanding Eurasian and American first peoples.
- By Adam on 01-10-24
By: Paul Pettitt
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Survival of the Sickest
- A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
- By: Sharon Moalem, Jonathan Prince
- Narrated by: Eric Conger
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall647
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Performance421
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Story420
How did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Will a visit to the tanning salon help bring down your cholesterol? Why do we age? Why are some people immune to HIV? Can your genes be turned on—or...
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Human evolution
- By Dalton on 05-17-07
By: Sharon Moalem, and others
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Before the Dawn
- Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
- By: Nicholas Wade
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall955
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Performance544
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Story545
Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, critically acclaimed New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade tells a bold and provocative new story of the history of our ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature. Just in the last three years, a flood of new...
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Amazing information
- By Albert on 06-15-07
By: Nicholas Wade
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The Double Helix
- A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
- By: James D. Watson
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner, Roger Clark
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall879
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Performance741
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Story746
By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize....
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Star for Watson, Crick, Wilkins, AND for FRANKLIN
- By Darwin8u on 04-26-14
By: James D. Watson
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Mutants
- On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
- By: Armand Marie Leroi
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance43
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Story43
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 - a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, echoing Homer's Cyclops, are born...
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Fascinating
- By A. Holmes on 11-30-24
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
- By: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- Narrated by: Nick Sagan, Ann Druyan, Clinnette Minnis
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall336
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Performance291
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Story290
World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are....
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A very important read, poor audio performance
- By Tyeen Taylor on 03-17-19
By: Carl Sagan, and others
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The Epigenetics Revolution
- How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance
- By: Nessa Carey
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall492
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Performance422
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Story419
Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture combines with nature to engineer biological diversity...
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Begins Accessible, Then Becomes Too Technical
- By wbiro on 07-26-17
By: Nessa Carey
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Signature in the Cell
- DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
- By: Stephen C. Meyer
- Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall558
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Performance493
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Story488
Named one of the top books of 2009 by the Times Literary Supplement (London), this controversial and compelling audiobook from Dr. Stephen C. Meyer presents a convincing new case for intelligent design (ID), based on revolutionary discoveries in science and DNA. Along the way, Meyer argues that...
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The Thousand Year Book
- By Mark Kapetansky on 05-10-19
By: Stephen C. Meyer
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Ancestral Journeys
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall102
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Performance87
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Story86
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, leading us to question what we thought we knew about...
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Needs pictures.
- By Ray on 11-21-20
By: Jean Manco
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Control
- The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Greg Patmore
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance14
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Story14
Control is a book about what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America....
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Enlightening
- By Ike on 11-01-25
By: Adam Rutherford
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The Primate Myth
- Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature
- By: Jonathan Leaf
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
Challenging everything we thought we knew, this book takes a revolutionary look at how humans are far less like other primates than we've been led to believe—and uncovers what truly sets us apart. Humans are primates, much like chimps—or so we've been continually told. Yet recent discoveries...
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Primates or Pigs? A Story of Human Evolution
- By T Farris on 01-11-26
By: Jonathan Leaf
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The Tangled Tree
- A Radical New History of Life
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,215
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Performance1,063
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Story1,063
In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology, evolutionary biology, and genetics and genomics affect our...
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Very Enjoyable and Readable
- By Dennis on 08-18-18
By: David Quammen
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Blueprint
- How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
- By: Robert Plomin
- Narrated by: Robert Plomin
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall304
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Performance251
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Story247
In Blueprint, behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power to predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses from birth....
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good until Plomin inserted political opinions
- By Daniel Lathen on 02-27-19
By: Robert Plomin
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Gene Machine
- The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
- By: Venki Ramakrishnan
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall657
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Performance587
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Story588
Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms - that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of...
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biochemistry+autobiography+science politics
- By Irina Bataeva on 02-15-19
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The Genealogical Adam and Eve
- The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry
- By: S. Joshua Swamidass
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall117
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Performance107
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Story106
Evolutionary science teaches that humans arose as a population, sharing common ancestors with other animals. Most readers of the book of Genesis in the past understood all humans descended from Adam and Eve, a couple specially created by God. These two teachings seem contradictory, but is that...
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Interesting thought experiment
- By Nick on 11-04-21
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What Is Life?
- Five Great Ideas in Biology
- By: Paul Nurse
- Narrated by: Paul Nurse
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall107
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Performance85
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Story84
The Nobel Prize-winning scientist's elegant explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today. The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way...
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Will listen to this again!
- By angela on 10-06-21
By: Paul Nurse
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Neanderthal Man
- In Search of Lost Genomes
- By: Svante Pääbo
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall789
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Performance700
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Story704
A riveting story about a visionary researcher and the nature of scientific inquiry, Neanderthal Man offers rich insight into the fundamental question of who we are....
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Excellent science tale
- By Neuron on 01-19-15
By: Svante Pääbo
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Scotland
- A History from Earliest Times
- By: Alistair Moffat
- Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
- Length: 23 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance75
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Story74
Five hundred million years of Scottish history from the author of Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms: "Deserves a prominent place in the history canon" (Scots Magazine). Covering the Ice Age to the recent Scottish Referendum, the acclaimed historian and author explores the history of the Scottish...
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Great story Emotionless reading Bad ending
- By S. R. on 02-14-22
By: Alistair Moffat