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- The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture
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In probing the mysteries of these sleeping beauties, Wagner reveals a crucial part of nature's rich and strange tapestry.
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Life's Engines
- How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
- De: Paul G. Falkowski
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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Paul Falkowski looks "under the hood" of microbes to find the engines of life, the actual working parts that do the biochemical heavy lifting for every living organism on Earth. With insight and humor, he explains how these miniature engines are built - and how they have been appropriated by and assembled like Lego sets within every creature that walks, swims, or flies. Falkowski shows how evolution works to maintain this core machinery of life, and how we and other animals are veritable conglomerations of microbes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Science Book Ever Written. Period.
- De serine en 07-28-15
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Biomimicry
- Innovation Inspired by Nature
- De: Janine M. Benyus
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes listeners into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; and many more examples.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dated but good
- De stephen taylor en 09-05-21
De: Janine M. Benyus
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The Vital Question
- Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
- De: Nick Lane
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,167
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,032
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,021
The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies, and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a solution to conundrums that have puzzled generations of scientists.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Ouch!
- De Mark en 06-24-16
De: Nick Lane
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A Series of Fortunate Events
- Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
- De: Sean B. Carroll
- Narrado por: Sean B. Carroll
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 106
Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason, or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that we live in a world driven by chance. A Series of Fortunate Events tells the story of the awesome power of chance and how it is the surprising source of all the beauty and diversity in the living world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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We are for a short time.
- De Anonymous User en 10-14-20
De: Sean B. Carroll
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The Ancestor's Tale
- A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
- Versión resumida
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In The Ancestor's Tale, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse tour through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial beginnings of life four billion years ago. Throughout the journey, Dawkins spins entertaining, insightful stories and sheds light on topics such as speciation, sexual selection, and extinction. The Ancestor's Tale is at once an essential education in evolutionary theory and riveting in its telling.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Please do an unabridged version!
- De MovieExpertise en 09-29-16
De: Richard Dawkins
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The Blind Watchmaker
- Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,792
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,416
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,387
The Blind Watchmaker, knowledgably narrated by author Richard Dawkins, is as prescient and timely a book as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the 18th-century theologian William Paley, who argued that just as a watch is too complicated and functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with their far greater complexity, be purposefully designed. Charles Darwin's brilliant discovery challenged the creationist arguments; but only Richard Dawkins could have written this elegant riposte.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Challenging textbook more than an enjoyable listen
- De Eric en 01-15-12
De: Richard Dawkins
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The Equations of Life
- How Physics Shapes Evolution
- De: Charles S. Cockell
- Narrado por: Ian Porter
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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In The Equations of Life, biologist Charles S. Cockell makes the forceful argument that the laws of physics narrowly constrain how life can evolve, making evolution's outcomes predictable. If we were to find something very much like a lady bug eating something very much like an aphid on a distant planet, we shouldn't be surprised. The forms of life are guided by a limited set of rules, and, as a result, there is a narrow set of solutions to the challenges of existence.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too many equations, not enough insights
- De Alec Drumm en 09-24-18
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Why Evolution Is True
- De: Jerry A. Coyne
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,916
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,433
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,429
Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact. In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design", there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned: the evidence, the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As great as everyone says it is
- De Joseph en 12-01-10
De: Jerry A. Coyne
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How to Build a Dinosaur
- Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever
- De: Jack Horner, James Gorman
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 101
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In movies, in novels, in comic strips, and on television, we've all seen dinosaurs - or at least somebody's educated guess of what they would look like. But what if it were possible to build, or grow, a real dinosaur without finding ancient DNA? Jack Horner, the scientist who advised Steven Spielberg on the blockbuster film Jurassic Park and a pioneer in bringing paleontology into the 21st century, teams up with the editor of the New York Times's Science Times section to reveal exactly what's in store.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book but misplaced title
- De Robert en 06-19-15
De: Jack Horner, y otros
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Origin Story
- A Big History of Everything
- De: David Christian
- Narrado por: Jamie Jackson
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,151
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,886
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,881
Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day - and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of "Big History", the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brilliant achievement, must read/listen
- De 11104 en 09-05-18
De: David Christian
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Population Wars
- A New Perspective on Competition and Coexistence
- De: Greg Graffin
- Narrado por: Tom Zingarelli
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today, those first wars continue to be fought around and literally inside us, influencing our individual behavior and that of civilization as a whole. War between populations - whether between different species or between rival groups of humans - is seen as an inevitable part of the evolutionary process. The popular concept of "the survival of the fittest" explains and often excuses these actions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Changing Book. No other like it.
- De Abraham R. Herrick-Rough en 05-16-16
De: Greg Graffin
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Life on the Edge
- The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
- De: Johnjoe McFadden, Jim Al-Khalili
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 393
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Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: Nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we still missing a vital ingredient in its creation?
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3 out of 5 stars
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More woo than new
- De Gary en 09-09-15
De: Johnjoe McFadden, y otros
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How to Clone a Mammoth
- The Science of De-Extinction
- De: Beth Shapiro
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks listeners through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Readable Take on a Complex Subject
- De John en 04-26-15
De: Beth Shapiro
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Pandora's Seed
- The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
- De: Spencer Wells
- Narrado por: Spencer Wells
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 167
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
This new book by Spencer Wells, the internationally known geneticist, anthropologist, author, and director of the Genographic Project, focuses on the seminal event in human history: mankind's decision to become farmers rather than hunter-gatherers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Short and unfocused, but often quite interesting.
- De Alan en 06-23-10
De: Spencer Wells
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The Lives of a Cell
- Notes of a Biology Watcher
- De: Lewis Thomas
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 4 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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In The Lives of a Cell, Dr. Lewis Thomas opens up to the listener a universe of knowledge and perception that is perhaps not wholly unfamiliar to the research scientist; but the world he explores is also one of men and women, of complex interrelationships, old ironies, peculiar powers, and intricate languages that give identity to the alienated and direction to the dependent. This remarkable work offers a subtle, bold vision of humankind and the world around us - a sense of what gives life - from a writer who seems to draw grace and strength from the very substance of his subject.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So enlightening and enjoyable!
- De Flora en 03-15-18
De: Lewis Thomas
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A Little History of the World
- De: E. H. Gombrich
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,960
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,305
E. H. Gombrich's world history, an international best seller now available in English for the first time, is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements, and an acute witness to its frailties.
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5 out of 5 stars
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an enlightening book; very well read
- De A.B.Oxford en 06-03-06
De: E. H. Gombrich
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Great overview of how evolution emerges again and again
Overall a great overview of how evolution emerges from the cellular level up to social and technological levels. It can feel a bit slow in the in the introduction but it’s worth sticking with.
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I wish this had been more into the science rather than the "story". It seemed to be greatly simplified, I guess to make it palatable to a greater common denominator.
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