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The Wild Life of Our Bodies
- Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 977
A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creatures - including humans - think, feel, and act. These tiny organisms can live only inside another animal, and, as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their host's behavior. Far more often than appreciated, these puppeteers orchestrate the interplay between predator and prey.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining but questionable studies
- De mdkoci en 01-02-17
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Superlative
- The Biology of Extremes
- De: Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating survey of amazing biology
- De Nerd's-eye view en 12-06-19
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Parasite Rex
- Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
- De: Carl Zimmer
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 122
For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and the darkest shadows of science. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer takes listeners on a fantastic voyage into the secret universe of these extraordinary life forms that are not only among the most highly evolved on Earth, but make up the majority of life's diversity. Traveling from the steamy jungles of Costa Rica to the parasite-riddled war zone of southern Sudan, Zimmer introduces an array of amazing creatures that invade their hosts, prey on them from within, and control their behavior.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and Horrible
- De David A en 10-09-18
De: Carl Zimmer
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Human Errors
- A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
- De: Nathan H. Lents
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,251
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,980
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,975
We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often - 200 times more often than a dog does? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there's been some kind of mistake. As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains in Human Errors, our evolutionary history is nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last.
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4 out of 5 stars
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From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes to...Aliens?
- De Katy.LED en 12-04-18
De: Nathan H. Lents
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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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5 out of 5 stars
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So enlightening and enjoyable!
- De Flora en 03-15-18
De: Lewis Thomas
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Evolving Ourselves
- How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth
- De: Juan Enriquez, Steve Gullans
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 180
Why are conditions like autism, asthma, obesity, and allergies exploding at unprecedented rates? Why are we living longer, getting smarter, having far fewer kids? If Darwin were alive today, how would he explain this new world?
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5 out of 5 stars
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fascinating ideas and science
- De Joel en 07-04-15
De: Juan Enriquez, y otros
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Population Wars
- A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
- De: Greg Graffin
- Narrado por: Tom Zingarelli
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 109
From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today, those first wars continue to be fought around and literally inside us, influencing our individual behavior and that of civilization as a whole. War between populations - whether between different species or between rival groups of humans - is seen as an inevitable part of the evolutionary process. The popular concept of "the survival of the fittest" explains and often excuses these actions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Changing Book. No other like it.
- De Abraham R. Herrick-Rough en 05-16-16
De: Greg Graffin
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Cannibalism
- De: Bill Schutt
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 208
Eating one's own kind is a completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons related to famine, burial rites, and medicine. Cannibalism has also been used as a form of terrorism and as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, Bill Schutt takes us on a tour of the field, exploring exciting new avenues of research and investigating questions like why so many fish eat their offspring and some amphibians consume their mothers' skin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Strange Topic, Great Book, Loved It
- De Fenna en 06-15-17
De: Bill Schutt
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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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General4 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book but misplaced title
- De Robert en 06-19-15
De: Jack Horner, y otros
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Pandora's Seed
- The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
- De: Spencer Wells
- Narrado por: Spencer Wells
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 167
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
This new book by Spencer Wells, the internationally known geneticist, anthropologist, author, and director of the Genographic Project, focuses on the seminal event in human history: mankind's decision to become farmers rather than hunter-gatherers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Short and unfocused, but often quite interesting.
- De Alan en 06-23-10
De: Spencer Wells
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Intelligence in Nature
- An Inquiry into Knowledge
- De: Jeremy Narby
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 163
Anthropologist Jeremy Narby has altered how we understand the Shamanic cultures and traditions that have undergone a worldwide revival in recent years. Now, in one of his most extraordinary journeys, Narby travels the globe - from the Amazon Basin to the Far East - to probe what traditional healers and pioneering researchers understand about the intelligence present in all forms of life. Intelligence in Nature presents overwhelming illustrative evidence that independent intelligence is not unique to humanity alone.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Favorite part was untrue :(
- De Al A'scgh en 08-13-18
De: Jeremy Narby
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,915
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,432
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,428
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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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An Epidemic of Absence
- A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases
- De: Moises Velasquez-Manoff
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 17 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
An Epidemic of Absence asks what will happen in developing countries, which, as they become more affluent, have already seen an uptick in allergic disease: Will India end up more allergic than Europe? Velasquez-Manoff also details a controversial underground movement that has coalesced around the treatment of immune-mediated disorders with parasites. Against much of his better judgment, he joins these do-it-yourselfers and reports his surprising results.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The point of view from a Veterinarian immunologist
- De rtgymnast en 11-03-17
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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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4 out of 5 stars
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What's new?
- De Mark en 05-02-17
De: Agustín Fuentes
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Missing Microbes
- How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
- De: Martin J. Blaser
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 371
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 316
In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin J. Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the health and equilibrium of our body. Now this invisible eden is being irrevocably damaged by some of our most revered medical advances-antibiotics-threatening the extinction of our irreplaceable microbes with terrible health consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very enlightening and information well supported
- De James en 05-03-15
De: Martin J. Blaser
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Our Wild Calling
- How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives - and Save Theirs
- De: Richard Louv
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Richard Louv's landmark book, Last Child in the Woods, inspired an international movement to connect children and nature. Now Louv redefines the future of human-animal coexistence. Our Wild Calling explores these powerful and mysterious bonds and how they can transform our mental, physical, and spiritual lives, serve as an antidote to the growing epidemic of human loneliness, and help us tap into the empathy required to preserve life on Earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sharing our world
- De Scott Br en 10-06-21
De: Richard Louv
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The Triumph of Seeds
- How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
- De: Thor Hanson
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,674
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,484
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,490
We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and the humble peppercorn drove the Age of Discovery, so did coffee beans help fuel the Enlightenment and cottonseed help spark the Industrial Revolution. And from the fall of Rome to the Arab Spring, the fate of nations continues to hinge on the seeds of a Middle Eastern grass known as wheat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightfully simplistic!
- De Adrian en 03-30-16
De: Thor Hanson
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Wild Life of Our Bodies
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Total1 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución3 out of 5 stars
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Historia1 out of 5 stars
- Carlmmm
- 03-04-22
Purple prose - overwritten
If you want to try out Rob Dunn, listen to A Natural History of the Future. I really liked it. This one OTOH, I am giving up on. It’s badly overwritten, over the top, sweeping generalizations. He’s lost the researcher cool that suited him so well in ANHofF.
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