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Mind Shift
- How Culture Transformed the Human Brain
- By: John Parrington
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins
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John Parrington draws on the latest research on the human brain to show how it differs strikingly from those of other animals in its structure and function at a molecular and cellular level. And he argues that this 'shift', enlarging the brain, giving it greater flexibility and enabling higher functions such as imagination, was driven by tool use, but especially by the development of one remarkable tool - language.
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Mind Shift
- How Culture Transformed the Human Brain
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 01-07-21
- Language: English
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Thinking Small and Large
- How Microbes Made and Can Save Our World
- By: Peter Forbes
- Narrated by: Keith Wickham
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Life began with the hydrogenation of CO2, and this is the process we must return to in order to heal the planet. Ground-breaking ongoing research into bacterial processes means our knowledge of bacterial processes is ever-expanding, and we can harness this new knowledge to develop a parallel carbon economy using engineered bacteria for fuel, food, and materials. This would enable rewilding on a vast scale, with the small land footprint of bacterial technologies solving the current conflict in land use between farming and fuel and materials production.
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Thinking Small and Large
- How Microbes Made and Can Save Our World
- Narrated by: Keith Wickham
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 22-05-25
- Language: English
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Genomics
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: John M. Archibald
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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Genomics has transformed the biological sciences. From epidemiology and medicine to evolution and forensics, the ability to determine an organism's complete genetic makeup has changed the way science is done and the questions that can be asked of it. John Archibald explores the science of genomics and its rapidly expanding toolbox. Archibald tells us how the field of genomics is on the cusp of another quantum leap; the implications for science and society are profound.
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Genomics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 28-08-18
- Language: English
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What Do You Think You Are?
- The Science of What Makes You You
- By: Brian Clegg
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Popular science master Brian Clegg’s new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and personality, it explores how the billions of particles which make up you - your DNA, your skin, your memories - have come to be.
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What Do You Think You Are?
- The Science of What Makes You You
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 14-07-20
- Language: English
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The Mysterious World of the Human Genome
- By: Frank Ryan
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome have evolved? And how does it actually work? Your genome defines you at the most profound level. That same genome is present in every one of the approximately 100,000 billion cells that make you who you are as an individual member of the human species. An important ingredient of the genome, and its essential nature, is memory .
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Boring
- By Soba Taiwo on 06-01-18
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The Mysterious World of the Human Genome
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 18-06-15
- Language: English
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Origin of Life
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- By: David W. Deamer
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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It seems likely that scientists will someday discover how life can emerge on habitable planets like the early Earth and Mars. In Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know, David W. Deamer has written a comprehensive guide to the origin of life that is organized in three sections.
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Origin of Life
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 03-11-20
- Language: English
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Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines
- Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi
- By: Nicholas P. Money
- Narrated by: Nicholas P. Money
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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From beneficial yeasts that aid digestion to toxic molds that cause disease, we are constantly navigating a world filled with fungi. Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines explores the amazing ways fungi interact with our bodies, showing how our health and well-being depend on an immense ecosystem of yeasts and molds inside and all around us.
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Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines
- Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi
- Narrated by: Nicholas P. Money
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 19-03-24
- Language: English
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I, Mammal
- By: Liam Drew
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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A list of the attributes that define a mammal is a ragbag of things - fur, live birth, three bones in the middle ear, a brain whose two halves are robustly joined together.... But this curious collection of features contain the roots of all the biology that makes us what we are: monkeys with massive brains who parent extensively, enjoy sport and think lots. Which is to say, what makes us mammals makes us human.
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I, Mammal
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 02-11-17
- Language: English
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Biomimetics
- How Lessons from Nature Can Transform Technology
- By: Brian Clegg
- Narrated by: Mark Peachey
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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Biomimetics literally means emulating biology—and in a broader sense the term covers technological advances where the original inspiration came from nature. The Earth is a vast laboratory where the mechanisms of natural selection have enabled evolutionary solutions to be developed to a wide range of problems. Science writer Brian Clegg looks at how humans have piggybacked on natural experimentation, redeploying a solution to create things that make our lives easier.
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Biomimetics
- How Lessons from Nature Can Transform Technology
- Narrated by: Mark Peachey
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-10-23
- Language: English
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Every Living Thing
- Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
- By: Rob Dunn
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Biologist Rob Dunn's Every Little Thing is the story of man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys. In the tradition of E. O. Wilson, this engaging and fascinating work of popular science follows humanity's unending quest to discover every living thing in our natural world-from the unimaginably small in the most inhospitable of places on earth to the unimaginably far away in the unexplored canals on Mars.
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Every Living Thing
- Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 10-03-20
- Language: English
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Into the Great Wide Ocean
- Life in the Least Known Habitat on Earth
- By: Sönke Johnsen
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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The open ocean, far from the shore and miles above the seafloor, is a vast and formidable habitat that is home to the most abundant life on our planet, from giant squid and jellyfish to anglerfish with bioluminescent lures that draw prey into their toothy mouths. Into the Great Wide Ocean takes listeners inside the peculiar world of the seagoing scientists who are providing tantalizing new insights into how the animals of the open ocean solve the problems of their existence.
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Into the Great Wide Ocean
- Life in the Least Known Habitat on Earth
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 15-10-24
- Language: English
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Insects
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Simon Leather
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
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To date, more than a million insect species have been described, with probably at least another 5-8 million species waiting in the wings for a name. Insects are a fascinatingly diverse and beautiful spectrum of animals. They range in size from the tiny parasitic wasp, measuring a mere 139µm, to the aptly named Titan beetle, which can reach lengths of up to 17cm. They can be found on all continents of the world, from the Sahara Desert to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. While no insects live beneath the waves, the intrepid sea skaters skim the surface of some of the world's oceans.
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- By Tout en chantant on 09-04-23
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Insects
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 31-01-23
- Language: English
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What If Fungi Win?
- Johns Hopkins Wavelengths
- By: Arturo Casadevall
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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Humans and fungi share nearly 50 percent of the same DNA. Because we're related, designing drugs to combat the varieties that attack us is a challenge. Meanwhile, in an ever hotter, wetter world, fungi may be finding new ways to thrive, queueing up global outbreak potentials for which no vaccine and woefully few medications exist; some fungi are already beginning to resist treatment. Among other lifeforms, bats, amphibians, and essential crops are also increasingly threatened by these pathogens.
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What If Fungi Win?
- Johns Hopkins Wavelengths
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 23-07-24
- Language: English
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Methuselah's Zoo
- What Nature Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Healthier Lives
- By: Steven N. Austad
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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In Methusaleh's Zoo, Steven Austad tells the stories of some extraordinary animals, considering why, for example, animal species that fly live longer than earthbound species and why animals found in the ocean live longest of all. Austad—the leading authority on longevity in animals—argues that the best way we will learn from these long-lived animals is by studying them in the wild.
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Methuselah's Zoo
- What Nature Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Healthier Lives
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 31-10-23
- Language: English
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We Know It When We See It
- By: Richard Masland
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Spotting a face in a crowd is so easy, you take it for granted. But how you do it is one of science's great mysteries. And vision is involved with so much of everything your brain does. Explaining how it works reveals more than just how you see. In We Know It When We See It, Harvard neuroscientist Richard Masland tackles vital questions about how the brain processes information - how it perceives, learns and remembers - through a careful study of the inner life of the eye.
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We Know It When We See It
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Joel Allen
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
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On the Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin is a work of scientific literature considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. The book introduced the theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection, backed by a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. The evidence was gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and the author’s subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation.
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On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection
- Narrated by: Joel Allen
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 06-11-19
- Language: English
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The Deep Structure of Biology
- Is Convergence Sufficiently Ubiquitous to Give a Directional Signal
- By: Simon Conway Morris - editor
- Narrated by: Philip Sondericker
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Twelve renowned scientists and theologians offer penetrating insights into the evolution dialogue in The Deep Structure of Biology. Each considers whether the orthodox model of evolution is sufficient and offers his/her own perspective on evolution and biology. The discussion of biology and evolution in these essays broadens the scope of the traditional evolution discussion as it aims to stimulate the development of further research programs. Scholars in the science and religion field will find this book a valuable resource.
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Brilliant book partly spoiled
- By Anthony Saville on 23-12-13
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The Deep Structure of Biology
- Is Convergence Sufficiently Ubiquitous to Give a Directional Signal
- Narrated by: Philip Sondericker
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 16-08-12
- Language: English
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Mother Brain
- Separating Myth from Biology—the Science of the Parental Brain
- By: Chelsea Conaboy
- Narrated by: Chelsea Conaboy
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
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Before Chelsea Conaboy gave birth to her first child, she anticipated the joy of holding her newborn son, the endless dirty nappies and the sleepless nights. What she didn't expect was how different she would feel. It wasn't simply the extraordinary demands of this new role, but a shift in self—as deep as it was disorienting. In truth, something was changing: her brain.
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Mother Brain
- Separating Myth from Biology—the Science of the Parental Brain
- Narrated by: Chelsea Conaboy
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, The Song of The Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration of what it means to be human-rich with Siddhartha Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of...
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The Song of the Cell
- An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
- Narrated by: Abhishek Sharma
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 14-10-23
- Language: English
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Natural Histories: Fish and Invertebrates
- A BBC Radio 4 Nature Collection
- By: Brett Westwood
- Narrated by: Brett Westwood
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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Throughout the ages, human beings have had a profound fascination with the natural world. It has influenced all aspects of our civilisation, from science and religion to music, art, literature and film. These 12 episodes, taken from Radio 4's epic series Natural Histories, find presenter Brett Westwood exploring two major groups of animals - fish, who have lived on Earth for over 450 million years, and invertebrates, who make up 97 percent of all species worldwide - to find out how our perception and representation of them has changed over time.
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Natural Histories: Fish and Invertebrates
- A BBC Radio 4 Nature Collection
- Narrated by: Brett Westwood
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 28-09-23
- Language: English
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