Evolution Nonfiction

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    • The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
    • By: Robert M. Sapolsky
    • Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
    • Length: 26 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4,058 ratings
    • New York Times bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year “It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.” —David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal "It has my vote...

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    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 12,567 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history. Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped...

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    • The Architecture of Belief
    • By: Jordan B. Peterson
    • Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
    • Length: 30 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 5,126 ratings
    • Jordan B. Peterson's Maps of Meaning is now available for the first time as an audio download! Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself?...

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    • The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
    • By: Christine Webb
    • Narrated by: Christine Webb
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-25
    • Language: English
    • 12 ratings
    • A New York Times’s Notable Book of 2025 An impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species—and ourselves Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. Yet today many maintain that...

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    • How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships
    • By: Nathan H. Lents
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 7 ratings
    • “A bulletproof case that sexual diversity exists in the natural world…The Sexual Evolution is a thoughtfully and delightfully written book full of illuminating and entertaining information that will be new to most readers. At a time when ignorance and misinformation about sex, gender...

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    • How Your Unique Body Really Works and Why Our Biology Unites Us
    • By: Herman Pontzer PhD
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-25
    • Language: English
    • 12 ratings
    • A new understanding of how our bodies work, how to keep them healthy, and how our biological diversity unites us rather than divides us How does the body work—and why does it seem to work so differently for each of us? Why do we grow tall or short, obese or slim? Why do some of us stay healthy...

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    • Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
    • By: Peter Turchin
    • Narrated by: Robin McAlpine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 200 ratings
    • “Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book.” —Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics From the pioneering co-founder of...

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    • What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
    • Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 1,184 ratings
    • Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem...

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    • A History of the World in Eight Plagues
    • By: Jonathan Kennedy
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Kennedy
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 155 ratings
    • NATIONAL BESTSELLER A “gripping” (The Washington Post) account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism—have been shaped not by humans but by germs “Superbly written . . . Kennedy seamlessly weaves together scientific and...

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    • From the Beagle to the Origin of Species, the Inner Journey That Changed How We See Life
    • By: J. T. Ellery
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-25
    • Language: English
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    • Inside the Mind of the Man Who Changed the Way We Think When Charles Darwin stepped aboard the Beagle in 1831, he was a twenty-two-year-old ...

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    • Discover California's journey from indigenous tribes to American statehood (1769-1850): a tale of cultures, colonization, conflict, and evolving identity.
    • By: Seth Parker
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-05-25
    • Language: English
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    • A historical non-fiction book set in California during its transformation from indigenous tribes to American statehood. Discover the rich tapestry ...

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    • A Mythic Guide to Psychedelic Healing, Depth Psychology, and Cultural Repair
    • By: Simon Yugler
    • Narrated by: Simon Yugler
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 25 ratings
    • A mythological journey through 10 archetypes of psychedelic healing: ancient stories, tangible tools, and depth psychology insights Designed for a new generation of psychedelic facilitators and seekers, Psychedelics and the Soul invokes the traditions of Jungian depth psychology, mythology, and...

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    • How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker
    • By: Suzanne O'Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Suzanne O'Sullivan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-25
    • Language: English
    • 21 ratings
    • From a neurologist and the award-winning author of The Sleeping Beauties, a meticulous and compassionate exploration of how our culture of medical diagnosis can harm, rather than help, patients. We live in an age of diagnosis. Conditions like ADHD and autism are on the rapid rise, while new...

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    • How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
    • By: Agustín Fuentes
    • Narrated by: Agustín Fuentes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 161 ratings
    • 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...

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    • A Radical New History of Life
    • By: David Quammen
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 1,205 ratings
    • 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 affect our understanding of evolution and life’s history. In...

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    • Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
    • By: Henry Gee
    • Narrated by: Henry Gee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-25
    • Language: English
    • 11 ratings
    • "Henry Gee presents a pithy, fascinating account of the stages of biological evolution. ... a meditative and friendly listening experience. —AudioFile on A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth Written and read by the award-winning author of A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: a history...

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    • By: Brad Fox
    • Narrated by: Brad Fox
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 1 rating
    • Brad Fox takes us on a wild exploration of plants and people, imagination and matter, over an unexpected year-long waylay in the high jungle of northeastern Peru. "Brad Fox has traveled to the center of many worlds and here records a visit to the 'passionate nada' in his disarming, beautifully...

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    • How We Learned to Speak and Why
    • By: Madeleine Beekman
    • Narrated by: Cat Gould
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-25
    • Language: English
    • 3 ratings
    • In a radical new story about the birth of our species, The Origin of Language argues that it was not hunting, fighting, or tool-making that forced early humans to speak, but the inescapable need to care for our children. Journeying to the dawn of Homo sapiens, evolutionary biologist Madeleine...

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    • The Physics of Life's Emergence
    • By: Sara Imari Walker
    • Narrated by: Sara Imari Walker
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 122 ratings
    • An intriguing new scientific theory that explains what life is and how it emerges. What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand...

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