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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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Racist pseudoscience may be on the rise, but science is no ally to racists. Instead science and history can be powerful allies against bigotry, granting us the clearest view of how people actually are, rather than how we judge them to be. How to Argue with a Racist dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics can and can't tell us about human difference.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 and a timely weapon against the misuse of science to justify racism.
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Started well then lost the plot
- By Kindle Customer on 03-10-20
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How to Argue with a Racist
- History, Science, Race and Reality
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-02-20
- Language: English
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- By: Nicholas Wade
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races...
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-05-14
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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"A rip-roaring tale, Fossil Men is one of those rare books that can be a prism through which to view the world, exposing the fabric of the Earth and illuminating the Tree of Life." —New York Times bestselling author Peter Nichols A behind-the-scenes account of the shocking discovery of the...
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Anthropologists behaving badly
- By veyza on 01-06-24
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Fossil Men
- The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 10-11-20
- Language: English
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Metazoa
- Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
- By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The scuba-diving philosopher explores the origins of animal consciousness. Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that...
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Probably better read with your eyes than your ears
- By Liz on 31-10-20
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Metazoa
- Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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A Little History of Everything
- From the Big Bang to You
- By: Tim Coulson
- Narrated by: Tim Coulson
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Tim Coulson – Professor of Zoology at Oxford – takes us back to the beginning of everything: the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. From there, he leads us step by step along the path to the most astonishing thing we have yet encountered – the staggering complexity of the modern human mind. Covering physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, the emergence of life, evolution, consciousness and the rise of humankind, yet written to be understood by anyone with a child’s curiosity, this book takes the biggest story of all and tells it simply, grippingly and, above all, entertainingly.
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A Little History of Everything
- From the Big Bang to You
- Narrated by: Tim Coulson
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 29-05-25
- Language: English
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Genome
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrated by: Paul Matthews
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Genome unravels the secrets of human nature without the usual reams of technical jargon. It shows outstanding breakthroughs in gene research, how we've gone from knowing almost nothing to knowing almost everything, and how our genes reveal more about our past, our evolution, and even our minds. Every important event in human history is written into our genes, whether it happened four billion or a few hundred years ago. All you need to know is where to look.
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Mixed feelings about this book.
- By Earthmo on 18-12-20
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Genome
- Narrated by: Paul Matthews
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 24-11-17
- Language: English
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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? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers "yes!" Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original arguments - drawing upon evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, and philosophy - that far from being an enemy of traditional explorations of freedom, morality, and meaning, the evolutionary perspective can be an indispensable ally.
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I must get more cleverer
- By Simon on 07-03-15
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Freedom Evolves
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 08-10-13
- Language: English
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The Case Against Reality
- Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
- By: Donald Hoffman
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Impossible Monsters
- How the Discovery of Dinosaurs Changed the World
- By: Michael Taylor
- Narrated by: James MacCallum
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world. In 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some strange-looking bones in Britain’s southern shoreline. They belonged to no...
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Michael Taylor takes a dry subject and turns it into a compelling narrative. I loved this book.
- By Anne-Marie Glennon on 24-08-25
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Impossible Monsters
- How the Discovery of Dinosaurs Changed the World
- Narrated by: James MacCallum
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 14-03-24
- 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
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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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Nature's Genius
- Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet
- By: David Farrier
- Narrated by: David Farrier
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In Nature's Genius David Farrier takes us on a profound journey into this ever-changing natural world. What we discover could change us. The ways animals adjust to the urban landscape can help us design sustainable cities. Examining other intelligences can help us remake our economies. Learning from bacterial evolution may help solve our waste problem. Synthetic biology could rescue animals from the brink of extinction. Thinking in timescales of the natural world could help us choose a better future.
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Fantastically hopeful and frightening all at once.
- By Fluid Gestures on 10-03-26
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Nature's Genius
- Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet
- Narrated by: David Farrier
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 08-05-25
- Language: English
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The Accidental Species
- Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
- By: Henry Gee
- Narrated by: Martin Dew
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed in headlines as revealing the elusive transitional step, the moment when we stopped being "animal" and started being "human". In The Accidental Species, Henry Gee, longtime paleontology editor at Nature, takes aim at this misleading notion.
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Don't say 'missing link'!
- By Chris on 22-11-21
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The Accidental Species
- Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
- Narrated by: Martin Dew
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-02-14
- Language: English
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Paranormality
- By: Richard Wiseman
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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'Wiseman shows us a higher joy as he deftly skewers the paranormal charlatans, blows away the psychic fog and lets in the clear light of reason.' – Richard Dawkins Professor Richard Wiseman is clear about one thing: paranormal phenomena don't exist. But in the same way that the science behind...
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Paranormality
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 17-07-25
- Language: English
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How to Grow a Human
- Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made
- By: Philip Ball
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading. After seeing his own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons – essentially mini-brains – Philip Ball begins to examine...
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Boundary breaking introduction to the new science.
- By Karl McAllister on 11-01-25
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How to Grow a Human
- Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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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
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In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet", focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the universe. Dennett vividly describes the theory itself and then extends Darwin's vision with impeccable arguments to their often surprising conclusions, challenging the views of some of the most famous scientists of our day.
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Not an easy book to remain engaged with
- By HKM on 30-07-19
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- Evolution and the Meanings of Life
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 27 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-10-13
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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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 including The Cell, The Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, Life as Information and then an inspiring piece on how we can change the world with this knowledge. Accessible and easy to listen to, Paul's engaging, personal tone will make listeners light up with excitement as they learn how all living beings are connected.
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Good but I expected more from this great mind.
- By Ian Davidson on 30-06-21
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What Is Life?
- Understand Biology in Five Steps
- Narrated by: Paul Nurse
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 04-09-20
- Language: English
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Eve
- How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction)
- By: Cat Bohannon
- Narrated by: Cat Bohannon
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer's? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? And does the female brain really exist? In Eve...
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Not the place for a gender debate
- By Anonymous on 28-01-24
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Eve
- How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction)
- Narrated by: Cat Bohannon
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 12-10-23
- Language: English
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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. In this book, Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.
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Wonderful Life
- The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 11-04-23
- 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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Cave of Bones
- By: Lee Berger, John Hawks
- Narrated by: Lee Berger
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. Lead researcher Berger had never made his way into the dark, cramped, dangerous underground spaces where many of the naledi fossils had been found. Now he was ready to do so. Once inside the cave, Berger made shocking new discoveries that expand our understanding of this early hominid.
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Read by the author
- By J. Rutter on 26-12-24
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Cave of Bones
- Narrated by: Lee Berger
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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