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Rebel Cell
- Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life
- By: Dr Kat Arney
- Narrated by: Dr Kat Arney
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Cancer has always been with us. It killed our hominid ancestors, the mammals they evolved from and the dinosaurs that trampled the ground before that. Tumours grow in pets, livestock and wild animals. Even tiny jelly-like Hydra - creatures that are little more than a tube full of water - can get cancer. Paradoxically, many of us think of cancer as a contemporary killer, a disease of our own making caused by our modern lifestyles.
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Fascinating and engaging
- By bookbuyer on 08-12-22
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Rebel Cell
- Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life
- Narrated by: Dr Kat Arney
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 06-08-20
- Language: English
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The Better Half
- On the Genetic Superiority of Women
- By: Sharon Moalem
- Narrated by: Sharon Moalem
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life 'A powerful antidote to the myth of a "weaker sex"' Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brain From birth, genetic females are better at fighting viruses...
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absolutely fascinating
- By Kelly Hassard on 27-02-24
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The Better Half
- On the Genetic Superiority of Women
- Narrated by: Sharon Moalem
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 07-04-20
- Language: English
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Proto
- How One Ancient Language Went Global
- By: Laura Spinney
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Bloomsbury presents Proto by Laura Spinney, read by Emma Spurgin-Hussey The enthralling story of how today’s largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world’s population, descended from one ancient dialect. Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit...
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Proto
- How One Ancient Language Went Global
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
- From the Life and Letters of Charles Darwin
- By: Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin - editor
- Narrated by: Oberon Michaels
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The original title of this text was Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character. This memoir was intended for Darwin’s family and was written between May and August 1876.
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
- From the Life and Letters of Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Oberon Michaels
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 28-10-25
- Language: English
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The Sacred Depths of Nature
- How Life Has Emerged and Evolved
- By: Ursula Goodenough
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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For many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age—the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, relativity—point to an existence that is bleak, devoid of meaning, pointless. But in The Sacred Depths of Nature, eminent biologist Ursula Goodenough shows us that the scientific world view need not be a source of despair. Indeed, it can be a wellspring of solace and hope. This volume reconciles the modern scientific understanding of reality with our timeless spiritual yearnings for reverence and continuity.
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education at it's finest
- By Anonymous on 29-11-23
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The Sacred Depths of Nature
- How Life Has Emerged and Evolved
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-06-23
- Language: English
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Bully for Brontosaurus
- Reflections in Natural History
- By: Stephen Jay Gould
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Bully for Brontosaurus and learn about natural history.
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Significant and entertaining
- By veyza on 29-11-23
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Bully for Brontosaurus
- Reflections in Natural History
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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Charles Darwin
- A Great Biologist. the Entire Life Story. Biography, Facts & Quotes (Great Biographies, Book 1)
- By: The History Hour
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and, in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding.
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Charles Darwin
- A Great Biologist. the Entire Life Story. Biography, Facts & Quotes (Great Biographies, Book 1)
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Series: Great Biographies, Book 1
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 28-10-20
- Language: English
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Darwin's Pharmacy
- Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere
- By: Richard M. Doyle
- Narrated by: Gerard Allen
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin’s Pharmacy shows they are by weaving the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs. Long suppressed as components of the human tool kit, psychedelic plants can be usefully modeled as “eloquence adjuncts” that intensify a crucial component of sexual selection in humans: discourse.
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Darwin's Pharmacy
- Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere
- Narrated by: Gerard Allen
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 22-02-19
- Language: English
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This View of Life
- Completing the Darwinian Revolution
- By: David Sloan Wilson
- Narrated by: René Ruiz
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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It is widely understood that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution completely revolutionized the study of biology. Yet, according to David Sloan Wilson, the Darwinian revolution won’t be truly complete until it is applied more broadly—to everything associated with the words “human,”...
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fascinating
- By LLB on 28-06-19
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This View of Life
- Completing the Darwinian Revolution
- Narrated by: René Ruiz
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 26-02-19
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Good Enough
- The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
- By: Daniel S. Milo
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Why is the genome of a salamander 40 times larger than that of a human? Why does the avocado tree produce a million flowers and only a hundred fruits? Why, in short, is there so much waste in nature? In this lively and wide-ranging meditation on the curious accidents and unexpected detours on the path of life, Daniel Milo argues that we ask these questions because we’ve embraced a faulty conception of how evolution - and human society - really works.
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One for acedmics of the subject, not the lay-person.
- By Adam Sheardown on 02-07-25
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Good Enough
- The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-06-19
- Language: English
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El origen de las especies [On the Origin of Species]
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Lluis Grau Grau
- Length: 23 hrs and 10 mins
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El origen de las especies es un libro de Charles Darwin publicado el 24 de noviembre de 1859, considerado uno de los trabajos precursores de la literatura científica y el fundamento de la teoría de la biología evolutiva. Presentó pruebas de que la diversidad de la vida surgió de la descendencia común a través de un patrón ramificado de evolución. Darwin incluyó las pruebas que reunió en su expedición en el viaje del Beagle en la década de 1830 y sus descubrimientos posteriores mediante la investigación, la correspondencia y la experimentación.
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El origen de las especies [On the Origin of Species]
- Narrated by: Lluis Grau Grau
- Length: 23 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 05-05-20
- Language: Spanish
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Exercised
- Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
- By: Daniel E. Lieberman
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
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If exercise is healthy (so good for you!), why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging stories and explanations will revolutionize the way you think about exercising—not to mention sitting, sleeping, sprinting, weight lifting, playing, fighting, walking, jogging, and even dancing...
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Exercised
- Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 05-01-21
- Language: English
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Goldilocks and the Water Bears
- The Search for Life in the Universe
- By: Louisa Preston
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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All life as we know it is carbon-based and reliant on sources of liquid water and energy for its survival; it is also, of course, known from just one planet: the Earth, a world perfectly suited to host life. But across a universe of at least 100 billion habitable, earthlike worlds, life cannot be restricted to just this one place. Or can it?
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Just a synopsis of others
- By Pete E on 27-07-16
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Goldilocks and the Water Bears
- The Search for Life in the Universe
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 16-06-16
- Language: English
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The Universe Within
- Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
- By: Neil Shubin
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded...
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The Universe Within
- Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 08-01-13
- Language: English
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Life as We Made It
- How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature
- By: Beth Shapiro
- Narrated by: Beth Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Once, we humans could only observe evolution. Suddenly, we had conquered it. And yet, in Life as We Made It, evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro argues that - despite how amazing our new technologies are - our ability to alter the course of evolution isn’t new. What is new is that where once we shaped evolution through brute force, we can now do it as artisans. That power comes not a moment too soon. If we are going to survive in the next few centuries, we must revise the book of life.
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Informative & Consice
- By Stewart on 26-09-25
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Life as We Made It
- How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature
- Narrated by: Beth Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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The Genesis Quest
- The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
- By: Michael Marshall
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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How did life begin? Why are we here? These are some of the most profound questions we can ask. For almost a century, a small band of eccentric scientists has struggled to answer these questions and explain one of the greatest mysteries of all: how and why life began on Earth. There are many different proposals and each idea has attracted passionate believers who promote it with an almost religious fervour, as well as detractors who reject it with equal passion.
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An excellent review of origin of life research
- By Martin Oetiker on 28-06-23
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The Genesis Quest
- The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 20-08-20
- 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
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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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Waiting for Superman
- By: Ron Davis, Tracie White
- Narrated by: Lyssa Browne
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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For the past six years, Whitney Dafoe has been confined to a bedroom in the back of his parents' home, unable to walk, eat or speak. His diagnosis? The mysterious disease myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) which affects 20 million people around the world who largely suffer in silence because the condition is little known and much misunderstood. Waiting for Superman follows Whitney's father, groundbreaking geneticist Ron, as he uncovers new possibilities for treatments and potentially a cure.
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The journey made real
- By Miss ScR on 17-03-21
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Waiting for Superman
- Narrated by: Lyssa Browne
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 05-02-21
- Language: English
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Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- By: Frans de Waal
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes.
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Informative, but often dry
- By OtterSpotter on 02-02-17
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Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 16-07-10
- Language: English
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