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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
- Unabridged
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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
- 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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Herding Hemingway's Cats
- Understanding How Our Genes Work
- By: Kat Arney
- Narrated by: Kat Arney
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly or your nose straight. The media tells us that our genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism or Alzheimer's. The cost of DNA sequencing has plummeted from billions of pounds to a few hundred, and gene-based advances in medicine hold huge promise. So we've all heard of genes, but how do they actually work?
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Informative and current
- By Jay Dermott on 06-05-16
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Herding Hemingway's Cats
- Understanding How Our Genes Work
- Narrated by: Kat Arney
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 14-01-16
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Hacking the Code of Life
- How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures
- By: Nessa Carey
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Just 45 years ago, the age of gene modification was born. Researchers could create glow-in-the-dark mice, farmyard animals producing drugs in their milk, and vitamin-enhanced rice that could prevent half a million people going blind every year. But now GM is rapidly being supplanted by a new system called CRISPR or "gene editing". Using this approach, scientists can manipulate the genes of almost any organism with a degree of precision, ease and speed that we could only dream of ten years ago.
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Great book
- By James on 15-12-20
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Hacking the Code of Life
- How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-06-19
- Language: English
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Tyranny of the Gene
- Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health
- By: James Tabery
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A revelatory account of how power, politics, and greed have placed the unfulfilled promise of personalized medicine at the center of American medicine The United States is embarking on a medical revolution. Supporters of personalized, or precision, medicine—the tailoring of health care to our...
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Tyranny of the Gene
- Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 15-08-23
- Language: English
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The Secret Perfume of Birds
- Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent
- By: Danielle J. Whittaker
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The puzzling lack of evidence for the peculiar but widespread belief that birds have no sense of smell irked evolutionary biologist Danielle Whittaker. Exploring the science behind the myth led her on an unexpected quest investigating mysteries from how juncos win a fight to why cowbirds smell like cookies. In The Secret Perfume of Birds―part science, part intellectual history, and part memoir―Whittaker blends humor, clear writing, and a compelling narrative to describe how scent is important not just for birds but for all animals, including humans.
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Very interesting.
- By kris clark on 20-02-26
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The Secret Perfume of Birds
- Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 16-08-22
- Language: English
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)
- Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
- By: Lyudmila Trut, Lee Alan Dugatkin
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs - they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken - imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades. In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms in the USSR and attempting to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time.
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Great book
- By mr special on 31-05-24
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)
- Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-09-17
- Language: English
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The Fourth Age
- Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
- By: Byron Reese
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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As we approach a great turning point in history when technology is poised to redefine what it means to be human, The Fourth Age offers fascinating insight into AI, robotics, and their extraordinary implications for our species. “If you only read just one book about the AI revolution, make it...
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One of the best books I've come across.
- By Paul Murphy on 09-05-18
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The Fourth Age
- Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 24-04-18
- 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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Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods
- Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
- By: E. Fuller Torrey
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In this book, E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods locates the origin of gods within the human brain, arguing that religious belief is a by-product of evolution. Based on an idea originally proposed by Charles Darwin, Torrey marshals evidence that the emergence of gods was an incidental consequence of several evolutionary factors.
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very interesting book
- By Anon on 06-12-22
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Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods
- Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 08-01-21
- Language: English
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The Depths
- The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
- By: Jonathan Rottenberg
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Nearly every depressed person is assured by doctors, well-meaning friends and family, the media, and ubiquitous advertisements that the underlying problem is a chemical imbalance. Such a simple defect should be fixable, yet despite all of the resources that have been devoted to finding a pharmacological solution, depression remains stubbornly widespread. Why are we losing this fight?
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The Depths
- The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 18-02-14
- Language: English
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The Cheating Cell
- How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer
- By: Athena Aktipis
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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When we think of the forces driving cancer, we don’t necessarily think of evolution. But evolution and cancer are closely linked, for the historical processes that created life also created cancer. The Cheating Cell delves into this extraordinary relationship, and shows that by understanding cancer’s evolutionary origins, researchers can come up with more effective, revolutionary treatments.
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Very Interesting But Very Repeatative
- By RichardB on 02-09-22
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The Cheating Cell
- How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 24-03-20
- 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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Who is Conscious?
- A Guide to the Minds of Animals
- By: Marian Stamp Dawkins
- Narrated by: Nicola F. Delgado
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Consciousness is the most fascinating but tantalizingly difficult topic in biology. Although many people now believe that mammals, birds, and possibly all vertebrates are conscious, there are also claims that many other animals such as crabs and insects may be conscious too. Such claims, if true...
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Who is Conscious?
- A Guide to the Minds of Animals
- Narrated by: Nicola F. Delgado
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-04-26
- Language: English
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Машина творения [The Genesis Machine]
- Новые организмы, редактирование генома и лабораторные гамбургеры [Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology]
- By: Эми Уэбб, Эндрю Гессель
- Narrated by: Андрей Троммельман
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Синтетическая биология преобразит наше понимание семейных связей, время нашего старения, то, чем мы лечимся, где живем и что едим. В этой бурно развивающейся области, задействующей компьютеры для исправления и изменения генетического кода, уже разработаны революционные решения—от мРНК-вакцин и диагностики врожденных заболеваний у эмбрионов до выращенного в лаборатории мяса, которое на вкус почти неотличимо от настоящего. Она дает нам шанс справиться с глобальными угрозами—изменением климата, нехваткой еды и энергетическим кризисом.
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Машина творения [The Genesis Machine]
- Новые организмы, редактирование генома и лабораторные гамбургеры [Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology]
- Narrated by: Андрей Троммельман
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 29-05-26
- Language: Russian
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How to Grow a Human
- Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made
- By: Philip Ball
- Narrated by: Philip Ball
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading. After seeing his own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons – essentially mini-brains – Philip Ball begins to examine...
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Boundary breaking introduction to the new science.
- By Karl McAllister on 11-01-25
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How to Grow a Human
- Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made
- Narrated by: Philip Ball
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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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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The Battle for the Beginning
- The Bible on Creation and the Fall of Adam
- By: John F. MacArthur
- Narrated by: Henry O. Arnold
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The battle lines have been drawn. Is the enemy winning? "Thanks to the theory of evolution," writes best-selling author John MacArthur, "naturalism is now the dominant religion of modern society. Less than a century and a half ago, Charles Darwin popularized the credo for this secular religion...
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The Battle for the Beginning
- The Bible on Creation and the Fall of Adam
- Narrated by: Henry O. Arnold
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 25-01-22
- 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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