History Physiology

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    • On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
    • By: Armand Marie Leroi
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace
    • By: Dave Grossman, Loren W. Christensen
    • Narrated by: Dave Grossman
    • Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,581 ratings
    • On Combat looks at what happens to the human body under the stresses of deadly battle and the impact on the nervous system, heart, breathing, visual and auditory perception, and memory....

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    • The Curious Science of Humans at War
    • By: Mary Roach
    • Narrated by: Abby Elvidge
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,309 ratings
    • Bestselling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war....

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    • An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be
    • By: Dr. Deena Emera
    • Narrated by: Deena Emera
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause—A Brief History of the Female Body is a fascinating science book explaining the mysteries of the female body through an evolutionary lens....

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    • All About Horse History, Health, Care, Anatomy, and Physiology to Become a Better Horseman and Have a Deeper Bond with Your Partner
    • By: Elisa King
    • Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez
    • Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Transform the love you have for horses into a deep and lasting bond that is forged from optimal care for your horse’s health, a knowledge of the equine mind, and key strategies for communicating with your horse....

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    • A History
    • By: Sandeep Jauhar
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 575 ratings
    • Cardiologist and best-selling author Sandeep Jauhar tells the colorful and little known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ....

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    • A Cultural and Scientific Journey
    • By: Vincent M. Figueredo
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart—not the brain—was believed to be the location of intelligence, memory, emotion, and the soul....

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    • The Science Behind What We See and How We See It
    • By: Rob DeSalle, Hans Bachor
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Over the years, color has dazzled, enhanced, and clarified the world we see. The experimental palettes of painting, the advent of the color photograph, Technicolor pictures, color printing, and so on have created a vivid and vibrant continuum....

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    • An Anatomical Voyage
    • By: Rachel E. Gross
    • Narrated by: Siho Ellsmore
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • A scientific journey to the center of the new female body....

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    • A Curious History of the Gut: The Secret Story of the Body’s Most Fascinating Organ
    • By: Elsa Richardson
    • Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • Historian Elsa Richardson leads us on a tour of the gut, exploring all the ways that we have imagined, theorized, and probed the mysteries of the gastroenterological system.

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    • A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
    • By: Neil Shubin
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,032 ratings
    • To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources....

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    • A Social History of Kidney Failure and Its Treatments
    • By: Paul Kimmel
    • Narrated by: Lane Hakel
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The kidney is an extraordinary organ—in many ways the regulator, the metronome, the keeper of the human body’s delicate equilibrium. On a given day, minute by minute, it purifies the body of toxins it encounters from diet, climate, activity, and injury. It allows us to move in the world....

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    • The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
    • By: Gary Marcus
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 202 ratings
    • Are we "noble in reason"? Perfect, in God's image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus....

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    • Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
    • By: Neil Shubin
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • In his last book, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human anatomy—our hands, our jaws—and the structures in the fish that first took over land 375 million years ago....

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    • The Natural World of Animal Sexuality
    • By: Eliot Schrefer
    • Narrated by: Joel Froomkin, Dustin Ballard, Hope Newhouse, Neo Cihi
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • A quiet revolution has been underway in recent years, with study after study revealing substantial same-sex sexual behavior in animals. Join celebrated author Eliot Schrefer on an exploration of queer behavior in the animal world—from albatrosses to bonobos to clownfish to doodlebugs....

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    • A Gross and Gruesome History of the Human Body
    • By: Adam Kay
    • Narrated by: Adam Kay, Jan Ravens, Dan Tetsell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The olden days were pretty fun if you liked wearing chainmail or chopping people's heads off, but there was one tiny little problem back then...doctors didn't have the slightest clue about how our bodies worked....

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    • True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
    • By: Rob Dunn
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood....

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    • The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
    • By: Randi Hutter Epstein MD
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • A fascinating exploration of the history and science of one of medicine's most important discoveries, Aroused reveals how hormones can both push us to the edge and reel us back....

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    • From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
    • By: Rob Dunn
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 442 ratings
    • A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination....

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