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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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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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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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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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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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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....
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Informative on some topics, but plenty of b*llocks
- By Luke H. on 15-03-21
By: Luke O'Neill
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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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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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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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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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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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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....
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Informative on some topics, but plenty of b*llocks
- By Luke H. on 15-03-21
By: Luke O'Neill
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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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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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The Third Chimpanzee
- The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Jared Diamond explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world...and the means to irrevocably destroy it....
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A nice precursor to Guns, Germs and Steel
- By Balor of the Evil Eye on 19-08-13
By: Jared Diamond
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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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Evolutionary Psychology: Bolinda Beginner Guides
- By: Robin Dunbar, John Lycett, Louise Barrett
- Narrated by: Miranda Nation
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Evolutionary Psychology is a uniquely accessible yet comprehensive guide to the study of the effects of evolutionary theory on human behaviour....
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Excellent Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology
- By Ewan Melling on 20-12-15
By: Robin Dunbar, and others
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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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Wonderful Life
- The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- By: Stephen Jay Gould
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail....
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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
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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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Hormonal
- The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones -- How They Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, Influence Our Choices, and Make Us Wiser
- By: Martie Haselton
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs
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Did you know women walk more, eat less, socialize more, meet more men, dance more, and flirt more when they're ovulating? Or that PMS may have evolved to get rid of boyfriends with unfit sperm? Find out more....
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Daren Knight on 28-08-21
By: Martie Haselton
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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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Born to Be Good
- The Science of a Meaningful Life
- By: Dacher Keltner
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution....
By: Dacher Keltner
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Freedom Evolves
- By: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world?...
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I must get more cleverer
- By Simon on 07-03-15
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When Men Behave Badly
- The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
- By: David M. Buss
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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“An exceptional book” (Helen Fisher) by a leading evolutionary psychologist and sex researcher that lays out a new theory of sexual conflict, exposing the roots of the dangerous dynamics that underpin men’s predatory behavior - and what can be done to address it....
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Written in Fear
- By N D on 29-07-21
By: David M. Buss
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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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Free Agents
- How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
- By: Kevin J. Mitchell
- Narrated by: Kevin J. Mitchell
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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Neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents an evolutionary case for the existence of free will....
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Excellent explanation of why free will is not an illusion
- By Demetri on 28-03-24
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The Social Leap
- The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come from, and What Makes Us Happy
- By: William von Hippel
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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In The Social Leap, William von Hippel lays out a revolutionary hypothesis, tracing human development through three critical evolutionary inflection points to explain how events in our distant past shape our lives today....
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frustrating as nothing new
- By Ras on 03-09-19
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Undeniable
- Evolution and the Science of Creation
- By: Bill Nye
- Narrated by: Bill Nye
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Sparked by a controversial debate in February 2014, Bill Nye has set off on an energetic campaign to spread awareness of evolution and the powerful way it shapes our lives....
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My kind of booked
- By J Morris on 21-12-15
By: Bill Nye
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First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began
- By: David Deamer
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory....
By: David Deamer
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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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Darwin Devolves
- The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution
- By: Michael J. Behe
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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The scientist who has been dubbed the “Father of Intelligent Design” and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for an intelligent creator....
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Mind Opening
- By Dr Liz Miller on 29-09-19
By: Michael J. Behe
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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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The Science of Self-Empowerment
- Awakening the New Human Story
- By: Gregg Braden
- Narrated by: Gregg Braden
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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New York Times best-selling author and 2018 Templeton Award nominee Gregg Braden crosses the traditional boundaries of science and spirituality to answer the timeless question at the core of our existence....
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Fragmented and unconvincing
- By Konrad on 22-07-19
By: Gregg Braden
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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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Mother Nature
- Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
- By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- Narrated by: Helen Stern
- Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Maternal instinct - the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children - has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature....
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Hrdy's gift
- By Maria on 07-10-15
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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 5 mins
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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....
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Sing a song of Freedom and all will be well.
- By Kindle Customer on 18-02-23
By: Jeremy Griffith
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Echoes of the Past
- How Evolution Shaped Your Mind
- By: Freudian Trips
- Narrated by: Tania Mannion
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Unlock the secrets of your own mind! Have you ever wondered why you think the way you do, feel the way you feel, or act the way you act? "Echoes of the Past - How Evolution Shaped Your Mind" takes you on an eye-opening journey to explore the hidden, ancient forces that shape your behavior. This engaging and easy-to-understand guide explains how evolution has molded our brains for survival and reproduction.
By: Freudian Trips
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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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Best history book I've listened to this year
- By M. Bellamy on 22-03-24
By: Michael Taylor
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The God of Monkey Science
- People of Faith in a Modern Scientific World
- By: Janet Kellogg Ray
- Narrated by: Sheri Beth Dusek
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever since the Scopes Monkey Trial in the early twentieth century, American evangelicals have considered scientists public enemy #1. But this antipathy to modern science turned deadly during the COVID-19 crisis, when white evangelicals snubbed precautions and vaccines. Herself an evangelical Christian and a science educator, Janet Kellogg Ray explains how we got here and how to fix it.
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Microlands
- The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It’s Smaller Than You Think)
- By: J. Craig Venter, David Ewing Duncan
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project in 2002, J. Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on earth. Thus began a fifteen-year quest to collect DNA from the world's oldest and most abundant form of life: microbes. Boarding the Sorcerer II, a 100-foot sailboat turned research vessel, Venter travelled over 65,000 miles around the globe to sample ocean water and the microscopic life within. In this book, Venter and science writer David Ewing Duncan tell the remarkable story of these expeditions and of the momentous discoveries that ensued.
By: J. Craig Venter, and others
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Echoes of the Past
- How Evolution Shaped Your Mind
- By: Freudian Trips
- Narrated by: Tania Mannion
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Unlock the secrets of your own mind! Have you ever wondered why you think the way you do, feel the way you feel, or act the way you act? "Echoes of the Past - How Evolution Shaped Your Mind" takes you on an eye-opening journey to explore the hidden, ancient forces that shape your behavior. This engaging and easy-to-understand guide explains how evolution has molded our brains for survival and reproduction.
By: Freudian Trips
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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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Overall
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Performance
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Story
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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Best history book I've listened to this year
- By M. Bellamy on 22-03-24
By: Michael Taylor
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The God of Monkey Science
- People of Faith in a Modern Scientific World
- By: Janet Kellogg Ray
- Narrated by: Sheri Beth Dusek
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever since the Scopes Monkey Trial in the early twentieth century, American evangelicals have considered scientists public enemy #1. But this antipathy to modern science turned deadly during the COVID-19 crisis, when white evangelicals snubbed precautions and vaccines. Herself an evangelical Christian and a science educator, Janet Kellogg Ray explains how we got here and how to fix it.
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Microlands
- The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It’s Smaller Than You Think)
- By: J. Craig Venter, David Ewing Duncan
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project in 2002, J. Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on earth. Thus began a fifteen-year quest to collect DNA from the world's oldest and most abundant form of life: microbes. Boarding the Sorcerer II, a 100-foot sailboat turned research vessel, Venter travelled over 65,000 miles around the globe to sample ocean water and the microscopic life within. In this book, Venter and science writer David Ewing Duncan tell the remarkable story of these expeditions and of the momentous discoveries that ensued.
By: J. Craig Venter, and others