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Free Agents
- How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
- By: Kevin J. Mitchell
- Narrated by: Kevin J. Mitchell
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free will—is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose.
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Good but misleading
- By Anonymous on 04-12-25
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Free Agents
- How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
- Narrated by: Kevin J. Mitchell
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-10-23
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here's the Science
- By: Luke O'Neill
- Narrated by: Ruairi Conaghan
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall174
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Performance146
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In the fascinating new audiobook from the best-selling author of Humanology, Luke O'Neill explores some of the big human questions and tells us what science has to say about topics such as gender, addiction and euthanasia. With his trademark easy wit and clever pop-culture references, Luke is a serious scientist with an amazing knack of making science accessible. If you are curious about us, this bizarre animal called the human being, this is a book for you.
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Informative on some topics, but plenty of b*llocks
- By Luke H. on 15-03-21
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Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here's the Science
- Narrated by: Ruairi Conaghan
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 16-11-20
- Language: English
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This Is Life
- From the acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Universe in Your Hand
- By: Christophe Galfard, Stuart Wilson
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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'An entertaining, expert guide to the precarious, miraculous and wondrous journey to where we are now' – Dara Ó Briain 'What a fun book! Like having a chat with a friendly scientist over a coffee' – Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs What is life? How did it first...
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This Is Life
- From the acclaimed author of the international bestseller The Universe in Your Hand
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 25-06-26
- Language: English
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The Tree of Life
- Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle
- By: Max Telford
- Narrated by: Max Telford
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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'A DELIGHT' HENRY GEE 'BEAUTIFUL' THOMAS HALLIDAY Where do we come from and how did we get here? Come time-travelling through the history of every species that has ever lived with Professor Max Telford. A four-billion-year journey through the evolution of our planet, The Tree of Life tells the...
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Nicely explained. Pleasant, gentle tone. Super job Max. Best wishes, Daniel Jeffares
- By Daniel Jeffares on 17-05-26
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The Tree of Life
- Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle
- Narrated by: Max Telford
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 24-04-25
- Language: English
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The Story of the Human Body
- Evolution, Health, and Disease
- By: Daniel E. Lieberman
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall337
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Performance294
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In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman—chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field—gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing...
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Awfully slow
- By Mister Peridot on 21-03-14
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The Story of the Human Body
- Evolution, Health, and Disease
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-10-13
- Language: English
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The Case Against Reality
- Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
- By: Donald Hoffman
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall197
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Performance168
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Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. How can it be possible that the world we see is not objective reality? And how can our senses be useful if they are not communicating the truth? Hoffman grapples with these questions and more over the course of this eye-opening work.
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mind blowing
- By Jadedragon on 19-09-19
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The Case Against Reality
- Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 13-08-19
- Language: English
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Brief Candle in the Dark
- My Life in Science
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he continues his autobiography, following the threads that have run through the second half of his life so far and homing in on the key individuals, institutions and ideas that inspired and motivated him.
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Fascinating incites, evolution, science and Oxford
- By DD on 15-09-15
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Brief Candle in the Dark
- My Life in Science
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-09-15
- Language: English
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On the Future of Species
- Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence
- By: Adrian Woolfson
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents On the Future of Species by Adrian Woolfson, read by Peter Noble. 'Visionary and exhilarating ... A work of astonishing scope and imagination' TIM COULSON 'The book we need right now ... Essential reading' TOM ELLIS 'A brilliantly crafted, sweeping exposition with profound...
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Groundbreaking!
- By Matthew Davies on 26-02-26
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On the Future of Species
- Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 12-02-26
- 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: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents How to Fly: Taking Wing with Birds, Bats, Insects and humans, written and read by Simon Barnes. A unique and all-encompassing exploration of the wonders of flight and the way different species have evolved different solutions to the problem of defying gravity – including...
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Witty and informative
- By veyza on 19-05-26
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How to Fly
- Taking Wing with Birds, Bats, Insects and Humans
- Narrated by: Simon Barnes
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-05-26
- Language: English
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The Sports Gene
- What makes an athlete? This pioneering study redefines elite performance.
- By: David Epstein
- Narrated by: David Epstein
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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*** Shortlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2013 *** Is Usain Bolt a superhuman one-off? Are sports stars like Paula Radcliffe and Tiger Woods born or made? Could we all be Olympians if we trained hard enough? And is the answer to be found by looking at Alaskan huskies? In this...
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Almost ruined by the accents
- By Joe Tietjen on 07-07-20
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The Sports Gene
- What makes an athlete? This pioneering study redefines elite performance.
- Narrated by: David Epstein
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 13-11-14
- Language: English
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Human Diversity
- The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
- By: Charles Murray
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences. The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual orthodoxy that has ruled the social sciences for decades. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three...
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This doesn't work as an audio book.
- By Jungian on 20-05-20
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Human Diversity
- The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
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Inferior
- How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story
- By: Angela Saini
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall263
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From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story. Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes...
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Essential reading.
- By Daisy Day on 25-08-18
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Inferior
- How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 30-05-17
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Performance181
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Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and a life-long committed Darwinist, abridges and reads this special audio version of Charles Darwin's famous book. A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals, starting with fish, all the way up through the ranks to apes, then to our current form.
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Something Old made Something New
- By Tim on 05-03-11
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On the Origin of Species
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-12-07
- 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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The Accidental Species
- Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
- By: Henry Gee
- Narrated by: Martin Dew
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed in headlines as revealing the elusive transitional step, the moment when we stopped being "animal" and started being "human". In The Accidental Species, Henry Gee, longtime paleontology editor at Nature, takes aim at this misleading notion.
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Don't say 'missing link'!
- By Chris on 22-11-21
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The Accidental Species
- Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
- Narrated by: Martin Dew
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-02-14
- Language: English
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Human Evolution
- A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
- By: Bernard Wood
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly. Newly discovered fossil evidence is adding ever more pieces to the puzzle of our past, while revolutionary technological advances in the study of ancient DNA are completely reshaping theories of early human populations and migrations. In this Very Short Introduction, Bernard Wood traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the 18th century to the very latest fossil finds.
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Human Evolution
- A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 10-08-21
- Language: English
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River out of Eden
- A Darwinian View of Life
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The number-one Sunday Times best seller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works from best-selling author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins. Complete and unabridged and read by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward. The river of Dawkins' title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on Earth to the present and onwards.
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Rather disappointing
- By Mr Edward G Dewhurst on 03-07-21
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River out of Eden
- A Darwinian View of Life
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 11-06-15
- Language: English
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The Pattern Seekers
- How Autism Drives Human Invention
- By: Simon Baron-Cohen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for 70,000 years, from the first tools to the digital revolution. How? Because the same genes that cause autism enable the pattern seeking that is essential to our species' inventiveness.
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Awful reading, fascinating text
- By PH on 12-04-21
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The Pattern Seekers
- How Autism Drives Human Invention
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 16-02-21
- Language: English
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Epigenetics: How Environment Changes Your Biology
- By: Charlotte Mykura, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Charlotte Mykura
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Epigenetics is the science of living DNA, charting the chemical pathways that spur DNA into action by turning genes on and off. While the Human Genome Project of the early 2000s was hailed as the key to understanding human heredity and disease, that historic effort was just the beginning. It has taken epigenetics to fill in the picture, explaining how the fixed code of our genome is implemented in countless living processes.
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If you can get over the “once upon a time” tone
- By Cecile on 21-02-24
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Epigenetics: How Environment Changes Your Biology
- Narrated by: Charlotte Mykura
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 24-02-23
- Language: English
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