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Ernst Mayr
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At once a spirited defense of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution for the general listener, What Evolution Is poses the questions at the heart of evolutionary theory and considers how our improved understanding of evolution has affected the viewpoints and values of modern man.
With rare clarity, Mayr poses the questions at the heart of evolution - What is the evidence for evolution on earth? What is the origin and role of organic diversity? - and describes in refreshingly nontechnical language how the search for answers has over the years revealed solutions to the most challenging problems posed by evolutionary theory.
In a provocative final section, Mayr considers how our improved understanding of evolution has affected the viewpoints and values of modern man.
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Just in the last three years a flood of new scientific findings, driven by revelations discovered in the human genome, has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries about our most ancient ancestors, the people who first evolved in Africa and then went on to colonize the whole world. Nicholas Wade weaves this host of news-making findings together for the first time into an intriguing new history of the human story before the dawn of civilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing information
- De Albert en 06-15-07
De: Nicholas Wade
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The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries
- The Evidence and the People Who Found It
- De: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity's place in the universe into necessary perspective. Despite a history of controversy, the evidence for evolution continues to accumulate as a result of many separate strands of incredible scientific sleuthing. In The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero explores the most fascinating breakthroughs in piecing together the evidence for evolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must Read for Novice Evolutionary Students
- De Robert J. en 08-10-24
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Chandra's Cosmos
- Dark Matter, Black Holes, and Other Wonders Revealed by NASA's Premier X-Ray Observatory
- De: Wallace H. Tucker
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built, was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Since then, Chandra has given us a view of the universe that is largely hidden from telescopes sensitive only to visible light. In Chandra's Cosmos, Wallace H. Tucker uses a series of short, connected stories to describe the telescope's exploration of the hot, high-energy face of the universe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De MGGGK9 en 12-08-23
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Mutants
- On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
- De: Armand Marie Leroi
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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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 with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarves; one family, whose bodies were entirely covered with hair, was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations and gave Darwin one of his keenest insights into heredity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De A. Holmes en 11-30-24
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Ancestors in Our Genome
- The New Science of Human Evolution
- De: Eugene E. Harris
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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In Ancestors in Our Genome, molecular anthropologist Eugene E. Harris presents us with a complete and up-to-date account of the evolution of the human genome and our species. Written from the perspective of population genetics, and in simple terms, the book traces human origins back to their source among our earliest human ancestors, and explains many of the most intriguing questions that genome scientists are currently working to answer.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Population genetics textbook with bad narrator
- De Talia en 05-25-20
De: Eugene E. Harris
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Great Adaptations
- Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved
- De: Kenneth Catania
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
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From star-nosed moles that have super-sensing snouts to electric eels that paralyze their prey, animals possess unique and extraordinary abilities. In Great Adaptations, Kenneth Catania presents an entertaining and engaging look at some of nature's most remarkable creatures. Telling the story of his biological detective work, Catania sheds light on the mysteries behind the behaviors of tentacled snakes, tiny shrews, zombie-making wasps, and more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellently written!
- De Kindle Customer en 11-11-20
De: Kenneth Catania
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
- The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
- De: Adam Rutherford
- Narrado por: Adam Rutherford
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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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 from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has completely upended what we thought we knew about ourselves. Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely rewriting the human story - from 100,000 years ago to the present.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I wish this book was in American high schools.
- De melody sheldon en 03-31-19
De: Adam Rutherford
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The Making of the Fittest
- DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
- De: Sean B. Carroll
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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DNA is the genetic material that defines us as individuals. Over the last two decades, it has emerged as a powerful tool for solving crimes and determining guilt and innocence. But, very recently, an important new aspect of DNA has been revealed: it contains a detailed record of evolution. That is, DNA is a living chronicle of how the marvelous creatures that inhabit our planet have adapted to its many environments, from the freezing waters of the Antarctic to the lush canopy of the rain forest.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Be prepared...
- De RVT3 en 09-22-07
De: Sean B. Carroll
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Kinds of Minds
- Toward an Understanding of Consciousness
- De: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
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Combining ideas from philosophy, artificial intelligence, and neurobiology, Daniel Dennett leads the listener on a fascinating journey of inquiry, exploring such intriguing possibilities as: Can any of us really know what is going on in someone else's mind? What distinguishes the human mind from the minds of animals, especially those capable of complex behavior? If such animals, for instance, were magically given the power of language, would their communities evolve an intelligence as subtly discriminating as ours?
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The Seven Daughters of Eve
- The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
- De: Bryan Sykes
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of both the Ice Man's discovery and his age, which was put at over 5,000 years, fascinated scientists and newspapers throughout the world. But what made Sykes's story particularly revelatory was his successful identification of a genetic descendant of the Ice Man, a woman living in Great Britain today. How was Sykes able to locate a living relative?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Eurocentric
- De Ann en 04-09-20
De: Bryan Sykes
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Understanding Human Evolution
- De: Ian Tattersall
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution. Written by a leading authority, it lucidly and engagingly explains not only the evolutionary process, but the technologies currently used to unravel the evolutionary past and emergence of Homo sapiens.
De: Ian Tattersall
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Life on a Young Planet
- The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
- De: Andrew H. Knoll
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites - such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, presenting a compelling new explanation for the emergence of biological novelty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Earliest Life
- De Arden en 02-16-20
De: Andrew H. Knoll
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Origin Story
- A Big History of Everything
- De: David Christian
- Narrado por: Jamie Jackson
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day - and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of "Big History", the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brilliant achievement, must read/listen
- De 11104 en 09-05-18
De: David Christian
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The Greatest Show on Earth
- The Evidence for Evolution
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Duración: 14 h y 36 m
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The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument". Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Back to His Strong Suit
- De Dalton en 09-23-09
De: Richard Dawkins
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The Story of Earth
- The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
- De: Robert M. Hazen
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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Earth evolves. From first atom to molecule, mineral to magma, granite crust to single cell to verdant living landscape, ours is a planet constantly in flux. In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national best-selling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere - of rocks and living matter - has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind in the Solar System, if not the entire cosmos.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Makes minerals interesting
- De Gary en 07-31-12
De: Robert M. Hazen