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The Selfish Gene
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
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Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it....
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Great listen
- By Luke Barton on 20-08-11
By: Richard Dawkins
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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The definitive Audible purchase
- By Jim on 22-01-14
By: Jared Diamond
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Life on Earth
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads a brand-new edition of Life on Earth, now available as an audiobook for the first time....
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Alec Davis on 05-10-18
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The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being
- Evolution and the Making of Us
- By: Dr Alice Roberts
- Narrated by: Dr Alice Roberts
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Alice Roberts takes you on the most incredible journey, revealing your path from a single cell to a complex embryo to a living, breathing, thinking person....
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Ambitious and exhaustive
- By veyza on 26-03-23
By: Dr Alice Roberts
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Return of the God Hypothesis
- Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe
- By: Stephen C. Meyer
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling author of Darwin’s Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology....
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Facts based reasons, gathered, presented very well
- By Anonymous User on 07-04-21
By: Stephen C. Meyer
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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
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Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? 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....
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mind blowing
- By Jadedragon on 19-09-19
By: Donald Hoffman
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The Selfish Gene
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it....
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Great listen
- By Luke Barton on 20-08-11
By: Richard Dawkins
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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The definitive Audible purchase
- By Jim on 22-01-14
By: Jared Diamond
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Life on Earth
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads a brand-new edition of Life on Earth, now available as an audiobook for the first time....
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Alec Davis on 05-10-18
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The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being
- Evolution and the Making of Us
- By: Dr Alice Roberts
- Narrated by: Dr Alice Roberts
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Alice Roberts takes you on the most incredible journey, revealing your path from a single cell to a complex embryo to a living, breathing, thinking person....
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Ambitious and exhaustive
- By veyza on 26-03-23
By: Dr Alice Roberts
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Return of the God Hypothesis
- Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe
- By: Stephen C. Meyer
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling author of Darwin’s Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology....
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Facts based reasons, gathered, presented very well
- By Anonymous User on 07-04-21
By: Stephen C. Meyer
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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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Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? 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....
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mind blowing
- By Jadedragon on 19-09-19
By: Donald Hoffman
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The Story of the Human Body
- Evolution, Health, and Disease
- By: Daniel Lieberman
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years....
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Awfully slow
- By Mister Peridot on 21-03-14
By: Daniel Lieberman
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- Evolution and the Meanings of Life
- By: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 27 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection....
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Not an easy book to remain engaged with
- By HKM on 30-07-19
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Fossil Men
- The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- By: Kermit Pattison
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
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A behind-the-scenes account of the discovery of the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor, named "Ardi"—a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution....
By: Kermit Pattison
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Darwin's Backyard
- How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
- By: James T. Costa
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
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James T. Costa takes listeners on a journey from Darwin's youth and travels on the HMS Beagle to Down House, his bustling home of 40 years....
By: James T. Costa
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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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....
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Something Old made Something New
- By Tim on 05-03-11
By: Charles Darwin
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Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You
- Busting Myths About Human Nature
- By: Agustín Fuentes
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields, including anthropology, biology, and psychology, Fuentes devises a myth-busting toolkit to dismantle persistent fallacies about the validity of biological races, the innateness of violence, and the nature of monogamy, sex, and gender....
By: Agustín Fuentes
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Muscle
- The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement
- By: Roy A. Meals MD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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An entertaining deep dive into muscle, from the discovery of human anatomy to the latest science of strength training....
By: Roy A. Meals MD
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Darwin's Doubt
- The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
- By: Stephen C. Meyer
- Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
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When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought he had explained every clue but one. Darwin knew there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain....
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Captivating and Convincing!
- By Kindle Customer on 30-08-18
By: Stephen C. Meyer
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The Dragons of Eden
- Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Ann Druyan
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast....
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Wonderful wisdom from the Gentleman Genius
- By Shaun W. on 22-01-23
By: Carl Sagan
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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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Nature’s toxins, how they evolved, and why we use and abuse them....
By: Noah Whiteman
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The Bonobo and the Atheist
- By: Frans de Waal
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within....
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Disappointing
- By Jan W. H. Schnupp on 10-08-14
By: Frans de Waal
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The Earth
- A Biography of Life: The Story of Life on Our Planet Through 47 Incredible Organisms
- By: Dr Elsa Panciroli
- Narrated by: Reanne Farley
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The Earth provides a unique perspective on how our living planet has evolved and adapted, from early organisms to life in the current Anthropocene....
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Evolution
- The Human Odyssey
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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The complex story of human evolution is a tale seven million years in the making. Each new discovery adds to or revises our story and our understanding of how we came to be the way we are....
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Great book
- By Kindle Customer on 07-01-23
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The Beak of the Finch
- A Story of Evolution in Our Time
- By: Jonathan Weiner
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spent 20 years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos, studying natural selection....
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The "brief history of time" for evolution
- By AGGELOS IOAKIMIDES on 20-10-16
By: Jonathan Weiner
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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
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Are men born to cheat? Does monogamy serve women's interests? Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics....
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Fascinating, and Frustrating
- By Greg Gauthier on 12-01-17
By: Robert Wright
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Drunk
- How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
- By: Edward Slingerland
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place....
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Delectable
- By Lizzie Lay on 15-02-24
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Why Honor Matters
- By: Tamler Sommers
- Narrated by: Tamler Sommers
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of honor is essential to living moral lives. In Why Honor Matters, Sommers argues that our collective rejection of honor has come at great cost....
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Sometimes You Should Punch Someone In The Face
- By Tom Curtin on 07-04-23
By: Tamler Sommers
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Father Time
- A Natural History of Men and Babies
- By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton gives a sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies.
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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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Drawing upon revolutionary findings and unparalleled scientific studies, Who We Are and How We Got Here is a captivating glimpse into humankind - where we came from and what that says about our lives today....
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We may never know the answer
- By Amazon Customer on 04-02-19
By: David Reich
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Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Jürgen Holdorf
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
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Vor 100.000 Jahren war der Homo sapiens noch ein unbedeutendes Tier, das unauffällig in einem abgelegenen Winkel des afrikanischen Kontinents...
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A Brief History of Creation
- Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
- By: Bill Mesler, H. James Cleaves II
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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How did life begin? It is perhaps the most important question science has ever asked....
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Fantastic History Book
- By Andrew Golightly on 05-09-21
By: Bill Mesler, and others
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What Darwin Didn’t Know: The Modern Science of Evolution
- By: Scott Solomon, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Scott Solomon
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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Since the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's remarkable On the Origin of Species, the modern science of biology and genetics has added surprising new dimensions to evolutionary theory. In this course, you’ll discover what Darwin didn’t know....
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Excellent in most every way
- By Sam on 02-05-23
By: Scott Solomon, and others
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Homo Habilis
- The History of the Archaic Hominins and Their Use of Stone Tools
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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The evolutionary path from the original primates to modern man is a long one and has taken many twists and turns, but naturally, as the fossil record grows, scientists gain a more complete understanding of our own mental and physical history in terms of genetics and anatomy....
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Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism
- By: Aron Ra
- Narrated by: Aron Ra
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
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Religious fundamentalists and biblical literalists present any number of arguments that attempt to disprove evolution....
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Aron-Ra doing what he does best
- By George Bernard Raw on 10-02-17
By: Aron Ra
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Father Time
- A Natural History of Men and Babies
- By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton gives a sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies.
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Quanology
- Evolution & You
- By: John Khoury
- Narrated by: John Khoury
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A unified theory of human living, the concept of Quanology represents the next evolutionary step in achieving what humans would consider "the good life." And while it's currently popular to view nature and technology as two fundamentally opposed concepts, Quanology approaches each as complementary to the other.
By: John Khoury
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Infinite Life
- A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth
- By: Jules Howard
- Narrated by: Jules Howard
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Each animal on the planet owes its existence to one very simple but crucial piece of evolutionary engineering: the egg. It's time to tell a new story of life on Earth.
By: Jules Howard
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Monkey to Man
- The Evolution of the March of Progress Image
- By: Gowan Dawson
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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We are all familiar with the "march of progress," the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressively taller and more erect before finally reaching the upright human form. Its emphasis on linear progress has had a decisive impact on public understanding of evolution, yet the image contradicts modern scientific conceptions of evolution as complex and branching.
By: Gowan Dawson
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The Sacred Chain
- How Understanding Evolution Leads to Deeper Faith
- By: Jim Stump
- Narrated by: Jim Stump
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In this moving and deeply thoughtful book, Jim Stump takes listeners with him on his journey to understanding evolution and reconciling it with his faith. The Sacred Chain draws on philosophy, theology, and the latest scientific research to tackle some of the biggest questions facing humanity and people of faith today
By: Jim Stump
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Impossible Monsters
- Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion
- By: Michael Taylor
- Narrated by: James MacCallum
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1811, when the self-schooled daughter of a carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from Britain's southern shoreline, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had discovered the 'first' dinosaur, and over the next seventy-five years - as the science of palaeontology developed, as Charles Darwin posited theories of evolutionary biology, and as religious scholars identified the internal inconsistencies of the Scriptures - everything changed.
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was not what I was hoping
- By MR PAUL M on 10-05-24
By: Michael Taylor
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Father Time
- A Natural History of Men and Babies
- By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton gives a sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies.
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Quanology
- Evolution & You
- By: John Khoury
- Narrated by: John Khoury
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A unified theory of human living, the concept of Quanology represents the next evolutionary step in achieving what humans would consider "the good life." And while it's currently popular to view nature and technology as two fundamentally opposed concepts, Quanology approaches each as complementary to the other.
By: John Khoury
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Infinite Life
- A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth
- By: Jules Howard
- Narrated by: Jules Howard
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Each animal on the planet owes its existence to one very simple but crucial piece of evolutionary engineering: the egg. It's time to tell a new story of life on Earth.
By: Jules Howard
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Monkey to Man
- The Evolution of the March of Progress Image
- By: Gowan Dawson
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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We are all familiar with the "march of progress," the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressively taller and more erect before finally reaching the upright human form. Its emphasis on linear progress has had a decisive impact on public understanding of evolution, yet the image contradicts modern scientific conceptions of evolution as complex and branching.
By: Gowan Dawson
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The Sacred Chain
- How Understanding Evolution Leads to Deeper Faith
- By: Jim Stump
- Narrated by: Jim Stump
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In this moving and deeply thoughtful book, Jim Stump takes listeners with him on his journey to understanding evolution and reconciling it with his faith. The Sacred Chain draws on philosophy, theology, and the latest scientific research to tackle some of the biggest questions facing humanity and people of faith today
By: Jim Stump
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Impossible Monsters
- Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion
- By: Michael Taylor
- Narrated by: James MacCallum
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1811, when the self-schooled daughter of a carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from Britain's southern shoreline, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had discovered the 'first' dinosaur, and over the next seventy-five years - as the science of palaeontology developed, as Charles Darwin posited theories of evolutionary biology, and as religious scholars identified the internal inconsistencies of the Scriptures - everything changed.
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was not what I was hoping
- By MR PAUL M on 10-05-24
By: Michael Taylor