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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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Birds, Sex and Beauty
- The extraordinary implications of Charles Darwin’s strangest idea
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In his new book, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley looks to the peculiar mating rituals of birds to better understand the rich origins and ongoing significance of Darwin's sexual selection theory. 'FASCINATING' The Times ‘Matt Ridley is one of our finest science writers … A treat for bird...
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A rational love letter and journal
- By Anonymous on 10-06-26
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Birds, Sex and Beauty
- The extraordinary implications of Charles Darwin’s strangest idea
- Narrated by: Matt Ridley
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 13-03-25
- Language: English
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Understanding Human Evolution
- By: Ian Tattersall
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution. Written by a leading authority, it lucidly and engagingly explains not only the evolutionary process, but the technologies currently used to unravel the evolutionary past and emergence of Homo sapiens.
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Concise but not dogmatic
- By Amazon Customer on 04-12-25
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Understanding Human Evolution
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back
- The Evolution of Minds
- By: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of evolution, brains, and human culture.
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An excellent Dennett exploration
- By G Douglas Whistler on 12-03-17
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back
- The Evolution of Minds
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 07-02-17
- Language: English
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Origins
- The Search for Our Prehistoric Past
- By: Frank H. T. Rhodes
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance107
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In Origins, Frank H. T. Rhodes explores the origin and evolution of living things, the changing environments in which they have developed, and the challenges we now face on an increasingly crowded and polluted planet. Rhodes argues that the future well-being of our burgeoning population depends in no small part on our understanding of life's past, its long and slow development, and its intricate interdependencies.
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an outstanding book in writing and reading
- By Ghazi on 19-03-17
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Origins
- The Search for Our Prehistoric Past
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-09-16
- Language: English
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The Ancestor's Tale
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Overall395
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Performance277
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The Ancestor's Tale is a pilgrimage back through time - a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we and they converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join us at about six million years in the past, gorillas at seven million years, orangutans at 14 million years, as we stride on together, a growing band. The journey provides the setting for a collection of some 40 tales.
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Dawkins does it again
- By Tom on 01-11-07
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The Ancestor's Tale
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 09-10-07
- Language: English
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The Naked Neanderthal
- By: Ludovic Slimak, Dr. David Watson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. After new discoveries, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in palaeoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different - and they should be understood on their own terms rather than by comparing them to ourselves. As he reveals in this stunning book, the Neanderthals had their own history, their own rituals, their own customs.
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Expanding our idea of what is human
- By Peter Kenny on 27-09-23
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The Naked Neanderthal
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 21-09-23
- Language: English
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Moral Animal
- Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
- By: Robert Wright
- Narrated by: Greg Thornton
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall300
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Performance241
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Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics - as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies.
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Fascinating, and Frustrating
- By Greg Gauthier on 12-01-17
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Moral Animal
- Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
- Narrated by: Greg Thornton
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 29-06-10
- 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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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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A Little History of the Earth
- The Little Histories Series
- By: Jamie Woodward
- Narrated by: David Linski
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Where has our planet come from, and what lies beneath its surface? How have we come to understand its past and present environments, and what does its future look like? Thanks to scientists who study its rocks, fossils, and landscapes, we know that Earth history spans over four and a half billion years. But there is still much more to discover.
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Just the most amazing listen
- By GabyDavies on 25-02-26
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A Little History of the Earth
- The Little Histories Series
- Narrated by: David Linski
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 09-12-25
- Language: English
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When the Earth Was Green
- Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
- By: Riley Black
- Narrated by: Wren Mack
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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“You'll root for these creatures and their survival. A marvelous narration.”—Booklist “Paleontologist Riley Black’s vivid writing and Wren Mack’s wonderstruck narration make these vignettes of prehistoric life on Earth fascinating listening.”—AudioFile Winner, A Friend of Darwin...
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When the Earth Was Green
- Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
- Narrated by: Wren Mack
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 25-02-25
- Language: English
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Transform Your Life and Save the World
- Through the Dreamed of Arrival of the Rehabilitating Biological Explanation of the Human Condition
- By: Jeremy Griffith
- Narrated by: Tim Macartney-Snape
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The world is in crisis! What is the solution? Ultimately, we have to find the redeeming, and thus transforming, understanding of our psychologically troubled human condition. And it is precisely that dreamed-of insight, and its now desperately needed transformation of our lives, that Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith presents in this book.
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Sing a song of Freedom and all will be well.
- By Jim Gregory on 18-02-23
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Transform Your Life and Save the World
- Through the Dreamed of Arrival of the Rehabilitating Biological Explanation of the Human Condition
- Narrated by: Tim Macartney-Snape
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 21-10-22
- Language: English
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The Secret World of Denisovans
- The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
- By: Silvana Condemi, François Savatier
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Paleoanthropologist Silvana Condemi and science journalist François Savatier tell the Denisovans’ story in The Secret World of Denisovans. Leading us through the excavation of Denisova cave, the sequencing of the Denisovan genome, and recent research on Denisovan fossils, Condemi and Savatier uncover how the Denisovans migrated to Asia, who they interacted with along the way, and why traces of Denisovan DNA can be found in modern-day humans.
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The Secret World of Denisovans
- The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 19-08-25
- Language: English
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Other Minds
- The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
- By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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BBC R4 Book of the Week ‘Brilliant’ Guardian ‘Fascinating and often delightful’ The Times What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? In Other Minds, Peter...
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stunning look at the evolution of thinking...
- By Amazon Customer on 12-03-18
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Other Minds
- The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 09-03-17
- Language: English
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The Genesis Machine
- Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
- By: Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel
- Narrated by: Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, Tim Campbell, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance30
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A New Yorker Best Book of the Year A breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence and has the potential to program biological systems like we program computers. The breakthrough science of...
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Important topic but lacks novel insights
- By Donnacha FItzgerald on 24-03-24
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The Genesis Machine
- Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
- Narrated by: Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, Tim Campbell, Landon Woodson, Amanda Dolan
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 15-02-22
- Language: English
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The Ape That Understood the Universe
- How the Mind and Culture Evolve
- By: Steve Stewart-Williams
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
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The Ape That Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our child-rearing patterns, our moral codes, our religions, our languages, and science? The book tackles these issues by drawing on ideas from two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory.
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This is just a poor, misogynistic version of the book Moral Animal
- By Charlotte on 27-02-26
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The Ape That Understood the Universe
- How the Mind and Culture Evolve
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 15-07-24
- Language: English
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The Epigenetics Revolution
- How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
- By: Nessa Carey
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance30
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Nessa Carey’s The Epigenetics Revolution looks at how modern biology is rewriting our understanding of genetics, disease and inheritance. At the beginning of this century, enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was...
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Who's the reader???
- By J Lucy on 26-02-24
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The Epigenetics Revolution
- How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 30-04-20
- Language: English
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The Origin of Politics
- How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations
- By: Nicholas Wade
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Societies that ignore social disintegration and collapsing birth rates are putting their future in peril. So why are we ignoring the signs? ?In The Origin Of Politics, Nicholas Wade explains how our political systems compete with a more ancient set of rules for organizing society—those...
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The Origin of Politics
- How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 09-09-25
- Language: English
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
- By: David Reich
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Performance182
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Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archaeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our ancestry. In Who We Are and How We Got Here, Reich allows listeners to discover how the human genome provides not only all the information a human embryo needs to develop but also the hidden story of our species.
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We may never know the answer
- By Amazon Customer on 04-02-19
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 26-06-18
- Language: English
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Our Future is Biotech
- A Plain English Guide to How a Tech Revolution is Changing Our Lives and Our Health for the Better
- By: Andrew Craig
- Narrated by: Andrew Craig
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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"An essential read for anyone committed to understanding the technologies that will define our future." CHRISTIAN ANGERMAYER, BIOTECH ENTREPRENEUR AND FOUNDER OF APEIRON INVESTMENT GROUP Welcome to the biotech revolution In the last century, technology has transformed the human experience across...
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Interesting, unique and brilliantly written
- By Anonymous on 21-06-25
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Our Future is Biotech
- A Plain English Guide to How a Tech Revolution is Changing Our Lives and Our Health for the Better
- Narrated by: Andrew Craig
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 29-08-24
- Language: English
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