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Beaks, Bones and Bird Songs
- How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior
- By: Roger Lederer
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers. What we don't see is the arduous, life-threatening challenges they face at every moment. Beaks, Bones and Bird Songs guides the listener through the myriad, and often almost miraculous, things that birds do every day to merely stay alive. Like the goldfinch, which manages extreme weather changes by doubling the density of its plumage in winter.
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perfect for beginners like myself
- By Jack on 11-07-24
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Beaks, Bones and Bird Songs
- How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 30-05-17
- Language: English
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A Billion Years of Sex Differences
- How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women
- By: Steve Stewart-Williams
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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According to an old joke, everyone knows that men and women are different... except social scientists. In A Billion Years of Sex Differences, evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams tackles some of science's most controversial questions: How do men and women differ? Where do the...
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A Billion Years of Sex Differences
- How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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How to Fly
- Taking Wing with Birds, Bats, Insects and Humans
- By: Simon Barnes
- Narrated by: Simon Barnes
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Flight fascinates us. We thrill to birds, we adore butterflies, we're baffled by bats and we can hardly believe in pterodactyls. Barnes looks at the physics of flight and how it has evolved quite separately four times over (birds, bats, insects and pterosaurs). He examines how these creatures do it: from the nocturnal agility of bats and the extinct reptile quetzalcoatlus with its 33-foot wingspan, to barely competent pheasants.
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How to Fly
- Taking Wing with Birds, Bats, Insects and Humans
- Narrated by: Simon Barnes
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-05-26
- Language: English
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Sex on Earth
- A Celebration of Animal Reproduction
- By: Jules Howard
- Narrated by: Jon Caruth
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Written in a brilliantly engaging style by biologist Jules Howard, this fascinating and highly engaging work covers the how and why of sex on Earth, in all its diversity. From sperm wars to cuckoldry, hermaphrodites and virgin births, spent males, racy harems, clitoral births, hips, breasts and birdsong, penis-percussion, and those riskiest and most elusive of all traits, monogamy and true love, all this and more is discussed in Sex on Earth, as Jules takes us on a voyage of discovery of the ins and outs of animal reproduction.
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Sex on Earth
- A Celebration of Animal Reproduction
- Narrated by: Jon Caruth
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 23-10-14
- Language: English
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Minds Make Societies
- How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
- By: Pascal Boyer
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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“There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature.” Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and other fields, Boyer offers precise models of why humans engage in social behaviors such as forming families, tribes, and nations, or creating gender roles.
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Brilliant book
- By Viktor Kazinec on 17-04-21
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Minds Make Societies
- How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 27-09-18
- Language: English
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Cro-Magnon
- How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
- By: Brian Fagan
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Best-selling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling. Cro-Magnon reveals human society in its infancy, facing enormous environmental challenges - including a rival species of humans, the Neanderthals. For ten millennia, Cro-Magnons lived side by side with Neanderthals, an encounter that Fagan fills with drama.
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Human prehistory brought to life
- By Russ Varley on 07-04-13
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Cro-Magnon
- How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 02-03-10
- Language: English
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Humans
- The Evolution of a Species
- By: DK, Alice Roberts - editor
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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How can our ears listen to this audiobook with such precision, differentiating each specific word? How can we understand thoughts someone has transferred to the track? With our union of dexterity and brain power, we discovered ways of finding food and beating the elements not only in our home on...
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Humans
- The Evolution of a Species
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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The Social Instinct
- How Cooperation Shaped the World
- By: Nichola Raihani
- Narrated by: Nichola Raihani
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Why cooperate? This may be the most important scientific question we have ever, and will ever, face. The science of cooperation tells us not only how we got here, but also where we might end up. Cooperation explains how strands of DNA gave rise to modern-day nation states. It defines our extraordinary ecological success, as well as many of the most surprising features of what make us human: not only why we live in families, why we have grandmothers and why women experience the menopause, but also why we become paranoid and jealous, and why we cheat.
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Fascinating
- By veyza on 14-02-23
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The Social Instinct
- How Cooperation Shaped the World
- Narrated by: Nichola Raihani
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 03-06-21
- Language: English
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The Social Paradox
- Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness
- By: William von Hippel
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A Next Big Idea Club Must Read of February 2025 From the author of The Social Leap comes this thought-provoking exploration into humans’ two core evolutionary needs, for connection and autonomy, how the modern world has thrown them out of whack, and how we can rebalance them to improve our...
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The Social Paradox
- Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 18-02-25
- Language: English
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First Steps
- How Walking Upright Made Us Human
- By: Jeremy DeSilva
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from bipedalism. First Steps takes our ordinary, everyday...
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will play this again and again
- By Gemma Bartlett on 29-02-24
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First Steps
- How Walking Upright Made Us Human
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 13-04-21
- Language: English
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Sensational
- A New Story of our Senses
- By: Ashley Ward
- Narrated by: David Morley Hale
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world. Whittling this high-powered and deliciously varied palette down to just five does a great disservice to the sensory experience, Sensational argues. In fact, we could have as many as fifty-three - and they could explain such mysteries as...
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Amazing listen
- By Elina Patrou on 26-06-24
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Sensational
- A New Story of our Senses
- Narrated by: David Morley Hale
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-01-23
- Language: English
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A World Beyond Physics
- The Emergence and Evolution of Life
- By: Stuart A. Kauffman
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Among the estimated 100 billion solar systems in the known universe, evolving life is surely abundant. That evolution is a process of "becoming" in each case. Since Newton, we have turned to physics to assess reality. But physics alone cannot tell us where we came from, how we arrived, and why our world has evolved past the point of unicellular organisms to an extremely complex biosphere.
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Muito obrigado pela explicação
- By Cliente Kindle on 30-03-24
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A World Beyond Physics
- The Emergence and Evolution of Life
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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Improbable Destinies
- Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
- By: Jonathan B. Losos
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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A major new book overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth’s natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point...
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extremely entertaining and intelligible
- By Eszter Pos on 19-12-18
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Improbable Destinies
- Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 08-08-17
- Language: English
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The Master Builder
- How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
- By: Alfonso Martinez Arias
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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What defines who we are? For decades, the biological answer has been our genes. In The Master Builder, leading biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias breaks with decades of scientific and popular tradition to make a bold argument: what defines us is our cells. Drawing on new research from his lab and others, Martinez Arias reveals that we are composed of a thrillingly complex, constantly rearranging symphony of cells that know how to count, feel, and ultimately give form to our bodies.
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The Master Builder
- How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-08-23
- Language: English
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Dignity
- Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict
- By: Donna Hicks PhD
- Narrated by: Margaret Strom
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The desire for dignity is universal and powerful. It is a motivating force behind all human interaction - in families, in communities, in the business world, and in relationships at the international level. When dignity is violated, the response is likely to involve aggression, even violence, hatred, and vengeance. On the other hand, when people treat one another with dignity, they become more connected and are able to create more meaningful relationships.
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Dignity
- Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict
- Narrated by: Margaret Strom
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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Paranormality
- By: Richard Wiseman
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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'Wiseman shows us a higher joy as he deftly skewers the paranormal charlatans, blows away the psychic fog and lets in the clear light of reason.' – Richard Dawkins Professor Richard Wiseman is clear about one thing: paranormal phenomena don't exist. But in the same way that the science behind...
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Paranormality
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 17-07-25
- Language: English
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Fed Up
- What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet and Eating Well
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 11-08-26
- Language: English
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Close Encounters with Humankind
- A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species
- By: Sang-Hee Lee, Shin-Young Yoon
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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What can fossilized teeth tell us about our ancient life expectancy? What can big data on fossils reveal about farming's problematic role in human evolution? How can simple geometric comparisons of skull and pelvic fossils suggest an origin to our social nature? In Close Encounters with Humankind, paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee explores some of our biggest evolutionary questions from unexpected new angles. Through a series of entertaining, bite-sized chapters, we gain new perspectives into our first hominin ancestors, our first steps on two feet, and more.
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A great book
- By Dave Daniels on 18-08-24
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Close Encounters with Humankind
- A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 20-02-18
- Language: English
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Most Delicious Poison
- The Story of Nature's Toxins―from Spices to Vices
- By: Noah Whiteman
- Narrated by: Noah Whiteman
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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Scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxglove leaf, a magic-mushroom cap, a marijuana bud, or an apple seed, and we find a bevy of strange chemicals. We use these to greet our days (caffeine), titillate our tongues (capsaicin), recover from surgery (opioids), cure infections (penicillin), mend our hearts (digoxin), bend our minds (psilocybin), calm our nerves (CBD), and even kill our enemies (cyanide). But why do plants and fungi produce such chemicals? And how did we come to use and abuse some of them?
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amazing
- By Fernanda B on 13-05-25
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Most Delicious Poison
- The Story of Nature's Toxins―from Spices to Vices
- Narrated by: Noah Whiteman
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 24-10-23
- Language: English
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Born of Ice and Fire
- How Glaciers and Volcanoes (with a Pinch of Salt) Drove Animal Evolution
- By: Graham Shields
- Narrated by: Graham Mack
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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More than half a billion years ago, our world was completely covered by glaciers, a "Snowball Earth" that persisted for millions of years. Incredibly, this unimaginable cold led to the remarkable diversification of life on earth known as the Cambrian explosion. With a geologist's eye and a knack for storytelling, Graham Shields explores when and how such inhospitable conditions enabled animals to evolve, radiate, and diversify into our earliest ancestors.
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Born of Ice and Fire
- How Glaciers and Volcanoes (with a Pinch of Salt) Drove Animal Evolution
- Narrated by: Graham Mack
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 31-10-23
- Language: English
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