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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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Lifespan
- Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To
- By: Dr David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrated by: Dr David A. Sinclair
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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For decades, the medical community has looked to a variety of reasons for why we age, and the consensus is that no-one dies of old age; they die of age-related diseases....
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Good science bundled with annoying social justice
- By MastaRob on 18-12-19
By: Dr David A. Sinclair, and others
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The Human Mind
- A Brief Tour of Everything We Know
- By: Paul Bloom
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you....
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Very influential book
- By Harvinder on 01-06-23
By: Paul Bloom
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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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Fascinating story of Us
- By toby oxford on 29-03-23
By: Dr Alice Roberts
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
- The Stories in Our Genes
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is for every one of the 100 billion modern humans who has ever drawn breath....
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Brilliant
- By John Ottaway on 14-09-16
By: Adam Rutherford
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
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The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from best-selling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee....
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20 hours very well spent
- By Judy Corstjens on 21-09-17
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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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Lifespan
- Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To
- By: Dr David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrated by: Dr David A. Sinclair
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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For decades, the medical community has looked to a variety of reasons for why we age, and the consensus is that no-one dies of old age; they die of age-related diseases....
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Good science bundled with annoying social justice
- By MastaRob on 18-12-19
By: Dr David A. Sinclair, and others
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The Human Mind
- A Brief Tour of Everything We Know
- By: Paul Bloom
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you....
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Very influential book
- By Harvinder on 01-06-23
By: Paul Bloom
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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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Fascinating story of Us
- By toby oxford on 29-03-23
By: Dr Alice Roberts
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
- The Stories in Our Genes
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is for every one of the 100 billion modern humans who has ever drawn breath....
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Brilliant
- By John Ottaway on 14-09-16
By: Adam Rutherford
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
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The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from best-selling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee....
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20 hours very well spent
- By Judy Corstjens on 21-09-17
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The World Before Us
- How Science Is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
- By: Tom Higham
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Fifty thousand years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham....
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Quality stuff
- By Anonymous User on 05-04-22
By: Tom Higham
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What Is Life?
- Understand Biology in Five Steps
- By: Paul Nurse
- Narrated by: Paul Nurse
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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Sir Paul Nurse is one of Britain's greatest living scientists. Here he invites listeners on a journey of discovery of biology's five great building blocks....
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Good but I expected more from this great mind.
- By Ian Davidson on 30-06-21
By: Paul Nurse
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Identically Different
- Why You Can Change Your Genes
- By: Professor Tim Spector
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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Professor Tim Spector reveals how the latest genetic research and his own pioneering studies on epigenetics are rewriting everything we thought we knew about genes, identity and evolution....
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Fabulous
- By Dr2ma on 22-08-22
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Control
- The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Control is an urgently needed discussion exploring the science, history and future of eugenics, and the practice of population control by selective procreation....
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Thought provoking, enlightening, & horrifying
- By Bufster on 11-10-22
By: Adam Rutherford
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The Sports Gene
- Talent, Practice and the Truth About Success
- By: David Epstein
- Narrated by: David Epstein
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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In this ground-breaking and entertaining exploration of athletic success, award-winning writer David Epstein gets to the heart of the great nature vs. nurture debate....
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Almost ruined by the accents
- By Joe Tietjen on 07-07-20
By: David Epstein
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Tasting the Past
- The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine
- By: Kevin Begos
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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The characters in Tasting the Past include a young Swiss scientist who set out to decode the DNA of every single wine grape in the world; Middle Eastern researchers who seek to discover the wines that King David drank; and much more....
By: Kevin Begos
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Blueprint
- How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
- By: Robert Plomin
- Narrated by: Robert Plomin
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1 percent of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion, our vulnerability to mental illness, even whether we are a morning person....
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Very challenging (as a topic and a medium)
- By P W. on 03-07-19
By: Robert Plomin
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How to Argue with a Racist
- History, Science, Race and Reality
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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How to Argue with a Racist dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics can and can't tell us about human difference. It is a vital manifesto for a 21st-century understanding of human evolution and variation....
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Started well then lost the plot
- By Kindle Customer on 03-10-20
By: Adam Rutherford
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The Tangled Tree
- A Radical New History of Life
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
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Our understanding of the ‘tree of life’, with powerful implications for human genetics, human health and our own human nature, has recently completely changed. This book is about a new method of telling the story of life on earth....
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Fantastic book, well read
- By Mr. W. R. Francis on 26-07-19
By: David Quammen
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The Genetics of God: Word Became Flesh
- A Scientist Explains How God Became Man
- By: Sam Rose
- Narrated by: Mica Matthews
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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The historical Jesus of Nazareth is arguably the most influential person ever to walk on the face of the planet Earth. Thousands of books have been written about him, and yet no book has been written about the mechanism by which the God—the Christ—became Jesus, the man in the flesh....
By: Sam Rose
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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....
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Fascinating
- By Sona on 11-04-23
By: Charlotte Mykura, and others
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Connections
- The New Science of Emotion
- By: Karl Deisseroth
- Narrated by: Karl Deisseroth, Natalie Naudus, Karen Chilton
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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In this ground-breaking tour of the human mind, a world-renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist explores the origins of human emotion through the stories of his patients....
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brilliant but complex
- By Anonymous User on 08-07-21
By: Karl Deisseroth
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Rebel Cell
- Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life
- By: Dr Kat Arney
- Narrated by: Dr Kat Arney
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Cancer has always been with us. It killed our hominid ancestors, the mammals they evolved from and the dinosaurs that trampled the ground before that....
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Superb narration, but content was not what I hoped
- By steve b on 15-10-20
By: Dr Kat Arney
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Moral Choices
- An Introduction to Ethics
- By: Scott Rae
- Narrated by: Maurice England
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
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This Christian introduction to ethics familiarizes both seminary and secular university students with basic processes of ethical decision making....
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Too much Chapter and Verse
- By Cathryn on 24-04-12
By: Scott Rae
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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
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What if the miracle that created mRNA vaccines is less a once-in-lifetime event and more the harbinger of the emerging age of synthetic biology? This fusion of biology and computers has a singular goal: to gain access to cells in order to write new—and possibly better—biological code....
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excellent book
- By Matt mcclay on 16-02-22
By: Amy Webb, and others
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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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Here is a pilgrimage back through time - a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join us at about six million years in the past....
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Dawkins does it again
- By Tom on 01-11-07
By: Richard Dawkins
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Humanology
- A Scientist’s Guide to Our Amazing Existence
- By: Luke O’Neill
- Narrated by: Ruairi Conaghan
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Discover the answers to 20 burning questions about life and our amazing existence with Ireland’s most exciting scientist, Professor Luke O’Neill. Humanology is a humbling reminder that we’re just a small speck in a big universe - so sit back and embrace the adventure....
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Incredibly fascinating and humbling
- By Iain on 03-03-20
By: Luke O’Neill
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Unravelling the Double Helix
- The Lost Heroes of DNA
- By: Gareth Williams
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
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Unravelling the Double Helix covers the most colourful period in the history of DNA, from the discovery of 'nuclein' in the late 1860s to the publication of Watson's The Double Helix in 1968. This is a saga packed with awful mistakes as well as brilliant science....
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Keeps you gripped from start to finish
- By DR ALUN GRIFFITH on 17-12-19
By: Gareth Williams
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The Remarkable Life of the Skin
- An Intimate Journey Across Our Surface
- By: Monty Lyman
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Perched on the exterior of our delicate and intricate bodies, the skin is our largest and fastest growing organ....
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Fascinating journey across science and culture
- By BookReviewer on 14-07-19
By: Monty Lyman
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The Age of Scientific Wellness
- Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands
- By: Leroy Hood MD PhD, Nathan Price PhD
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
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At top hospitals and a few innovative health-tech startups, scientists are working closely with patients to dramatically extend their "healthspan"—the number of healthy years before disease sets in....
By: Leroy Hood MD PhD, and others
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Ancestors in Our Genome
- The New Science of Human Evolution
- By: Eugene E. Harris
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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In Ancestors in Our Genome, molecular anthropologist Eugene E. Harris presents us with a complete and up-to-date account of the evolution of the human genome and our species....
By: Eugene E. Harris
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The Scots
- A Genetic Journey
- By: Alistair Moffat
- Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies, and this book traces the ancient story of Scotland from that scientific viewpoint....
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Excellent book well narrated
- By merchant on 26-07-22
By: Alistair Moffat
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
- By: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- Narrated by: Nick Sagan, Ann Druyan, Clinnette Minnis
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
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World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are....
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Conflicted
- By Edward R Lyons on 25-04-20
By: Carl Sagan, and others
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Signature in the Cell
- DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
- By: Stephen C. Meyer
- Narrated by: Derek Shetterly
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
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This controversial and compelling audiobook from Dr. Stephen C. Meyer presents a convincing new case for intelligent design based on revolutionary discoveries in science and DNA....
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must read!
- By James on 04-01-19
By: Stephen C. Meyer