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- The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
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In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field - discovering 10 new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork - masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy.
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"The Rise of the Scientists Who Study Dinosaurs"
- De Daniel Powell en 09-16-18
De: Steve Brusatte
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The Jesus Family Tomb
- The Discovery and Evidence That Could Change History
- De: Simcha Jacobovici
- Narrado por: Michael Ciulla
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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The Jesus Family Tomb tells the story of what may very well be the greatest archaeological find of all time: the discovery and investigation of the tomb belonging to Jesus' family. The tomb in question houses ossuaries (bone boxes) with inscriptions bearing the names of Jesus of Nazareth, the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Judas, the son of Jesus.
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Can It Really Be?
- De David en 03-05-07
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
- A True Story
- De: Douglas Preston
- Narrado por: Bill Mumy
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
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Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die.
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Still Lost...
- De Mel en 01-12-17
De: Douglas Preston
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The Jesuit and the Skull
- Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
- De: Amir D. Aczel
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
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In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin uncovered a prehuman skull. The find quickly became known around the world as Peking Man and was acclaimed as the missing link between erect hunting apes and our Cro-Magnon ancestors. It also became a provocative piece of evidence in the roiling debate over creationism versus evolution.
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More skull than Jesuit
- De connie en 10-25-07
De: Amir D. Aczel
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The Sediments of Time
- My Lifelong Search for the Past
- De: Meave Leakey, Samira Leakey
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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Preeminent paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey brings us along on her remarkable journey to reveal the diversity of our early pre-human ancestors and how past climate change drove their evolution. She offers a fresh account of our past, as recent breakthroughs have allowed new analysis of her team’s fossil findings and vastly expanded our understanding of our ancestors. Meave’s own personal story is replete with drama, from thrilling discoveries on the shores of Lake Turkana to run-ins with armed herders and every manner of wildlife, to raising her children....
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Brilliant!
- De tess koffler en 04-07-21
De: Meave Leakey, y otros
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Written in Stone
- Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature
- De: Brian Switek
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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Spectacular fossil finds make today's headlines; new technology unlocks secrets of skeletons unearthed 100 years ago. Still, evolution is often poorly represented by the media and misunderstood by the public. A potent antidote to pseudoscience, Written in Stone is an engrossing history of evolutionary discovery for anyone who has marveled at the variety and richness of life.
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Very good but has some weaknesses
- De Anonymous User en 06-23-19
De: Brian Switek
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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
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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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Good book but misplaced title
- De Robert en 06-19-15
De: Jack Horner, y otros
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First Steps
- How Upright Walking Made Us Human
- De: Jeremy DeSilva
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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Blending history, science, and culture, a stunning and highly engaging evolutionary story exploring how walking on two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s dominant species.
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Mammalian Bipedalism's Many Layers
- De Sarah C. en 06-07-22
De: Jeremy DeSilva
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America Before
- The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
- De: Graham Hancock
- Narrado por: Graham Hancock
- Duración: 17 h y 17 m
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Stunning new archaeological discoveries in North America together with new genetic evidence have launched a revolution in our understanding of the remote past of our species and of the origins of civilization. Graham Hancock, the internationally best-selling author has been overwhelmingly vindicated by recent discoveries. America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization is a mind-dilating exploration of the mystery of ancient civilizations, amazing archaeological discoveries, and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.
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Fun to Think About
- De Amazon Customer en 04-26-19
De: Graham Hancock
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In Search of the Canary Tree
- The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World
- De: Lauren E. Oakes
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants and people could cope with their rapidly changing world. Amidst the standing dead, she discovered the resiliency of forgotten forests, flourishing again in the wake of destruction, and a diverse community of people who persevered to create new relationships with the emerging environment.
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Moving and inspiring
- De Catherine A Gould en 05-26-19
De: Lauren E. Oakes
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)
- Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
- De: Lyudmila Trut, Lee Alan Dugatkin
- Narrado por: Joe Hempel
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs - they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken - imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades. In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms in the USSR and attempting to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time.
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Amazing
- De paul en 10-26-17
De: Lyudmila Trut, y otros
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The Fire Seekers
- The Babel Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Richard Farr
- Narrado por: Scott Merriman
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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An undeciphered language in Crete. A rash of mysterious disappearances, from Bolivia to Japan. An ancient warning at the ruins of Babel. And a new spiritual leader, who claims that human history as we understand it is about to come to an end.
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A fresh story!
- De AB en 02-08-15
De: Richard Farr
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Cave of Bones
- De: Lee Berger, John Hawks
- Narrado por: Lee Berger
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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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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Engaging and interesting but may trigger claustrophobia
- De M en 09-03-23
De: Lee Berger, y otros
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Ancient Bones
- Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
- De: Madelaine Böhme
- Narrado por: Aimée Ayotte
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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Africa has long been considered the cradle of life - where life and humans evolved - but somewhere west of Munich, Germany, paleoclimatologist and paleontologist Madelaine Böhme and her team make a discovery that is beyond anything they ever imagined: the 12-million-year-old bones of an ancient ape - Danuvius guggenmos - which makes headlines around the world and defies prevailing theories of human history and where human life began.
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Brave Attempt
- De Bill Treat en 10-15-22
De: Madelaine Böhme
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Fossil Men
- The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- De: Kermit Pattison
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White—"the Steve Jobs of paleoanthropology"—uncovered the bones of a human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar region. The findings challenged many assumptions about human evolution and repudiated a half-century of paleoanthropological orthodoxy. An intriguing tale of scientific discovery, obsession and rivalry that moves from the sun-baked desert of Africa to modern high-tech labs and academic lecture halls, Fossil Men is popular science at its best, and a must-listen for fans of Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, and Edward O. Wilson.
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- De Paul en 01-21-21
De: Kermit Pattison
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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered
- The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins
- De: Paul Pettitt
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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Who are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens, and how does our species differ from the extinct hominins that came before us? In this accessible account palaeoarchaeologist Paul Pettitt shows how the latest scientific advances, especially in genetics, are revolutionizing our understanding of human evolution. Pettitt reveals the extraordinary story of how our ancestors adapted to unforgiving and relentlessly changing climates, leading to remarkable innovations in art, technology, and society that we are only now beginning to comprehend.
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A Good Overview
- De Brandon en 02-08-23
De: Paul Pettitt
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered
- How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (Revised and Updated Edition)
- De: Dimitra Papagianni, Michael A. Morse
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals' behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in their prime, harvested seafood, and communicated with spoken language. Meanwhile, advances in DNA technologies are compelling us to reassess the Neanderthals' place in our own past.
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Fascinating Subject... Soporific Reader
- De Andrew E. Yarosh en 11-21-17
De: Dimitra Papagianni, y otros
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution
- How We Became Sapiens
- De: Silvana Condemi, Francois Savatier
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution brings us up-to-date on the exploits of all our ancient relatives. Paleoanthropologist Silvana Condemi and science journalist François Savatier consider what accelerated our evolution: Was it tools, our "large" brains, language, empathy, or something else entirely? And why are we the sole survivors among many early bipedal humans? Their conclusions reveal the various ways ancient humans live on today - from gossip as modern "grooming" to our gendered division of labor - and what the future might hold for our strange and unique species.
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- De Jim Griggs en 11-11-21
De: Silvana Condemi, y otros
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Cave of Bones
- De: Lee Berger, John Hawks
- Narrado por: Lee Berger
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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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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Engaging and interesting but may trigger claustrophobia
- De M en 09-03-23
De: Lee Berger, y otros
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Ancient Bones
- Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
- De: Madelaine Böhme
- Narrado por: Aimée Ayotte
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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Africa has long been considered the cradle of life - where life and humans evolved - but somewhere west of Munich, Germany, paleoclimatologist and paleontologist Madelaine Böhme and her team make a discovery that is beyond anything they ever imagined: the 12-million-year-old bones of an ancient ape - Danuvius guggenmos - which makes headlines around the world and defies prevailing theories of human history and where human life began.
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Brave Attempt
- De Bill Treat en 10-15-22
De: Madelaine Böhme
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Fossil Men
- The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- De: Kermit Pattison
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White—"the Steve Jobs of paleoanthropology"—uncovered the bones of a human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar region. The findings challenged many assumptions about human evolution and repudiated a half-century of paleoanthropological orthodoxy. An intriguing tale of scientific discovery, obsession and rivalry that moves from the sun-baked desert of Africa to modern high-tech labs and academic lecture halls, Fossil Men is popular science at its best, and a must-listen for fans of Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, and Edward O. Wilson.
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- De Paul en 01-21-21
De: Kermit Pattison
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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered
- The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins
- De: Paul Pettitt
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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Who are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens, and how does our species differ from the extinct hominins that came before us? In this accessible account palaeoarchaeologist Paul Pettitt shows how the latest scientific advances, especially in genetics, are revolutionizing our understanding of human evolution. Pettitt reveals the extraordinary story of how our ancestors adapted to unforgiving and relentlessly changing climates, leading to remarkable innovations in art, technology, and society that we are only now beginning to comprehend.
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A Good Overview
- De Brandon en 02-08-23
De: Paul Pettitt
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered
- How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (Revised and Updated Edition)
- De: Dimitra Papagianni, Michael A. Morse
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals' behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in their prime, harvested seafood, and communicated with spoken language. Meanwhile, advances in DNA technologies are compelling us to reassess the Neanderthals' place in our own past.
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Fascinating Subject... Soporific Reader
- De Andrew E. Yarosh en 11-21-17
De: Dimitra Papagianni, y otros
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution
- How We Became Sapiens
- De: Silvana Condemi, Francois Savatier
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution brings us up-to-date on the exploits of all our ancient relatives. Paleoanthropologist Silvana Condemi and science journalist François Savatier consider what accelerated our evolution: Was it tools, our "large" brains, language, empathy, or something else entirely? And why are we the sole survivors among many early bipedal humans? Their conclusions reveal the various ways ancient humans live on today - from gossip as modern "grooming" to our gendered division of labor - and what the future might hold for our strange and unique species.
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- De Jim Griggs en 11-11-21
De: Silvana Condemi, y otros
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Seven Skeletons
- The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
- De: Lydia Pyne
- Narrado por: Randye Kaye
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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Over the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most of these discoveries live quietly in museums, there are a few that have become world-renowned celebrity personas. In Seven Skeletons, historian of science Lydia Pyne explores how seven such famous fossils of our ancestors have the social cachet they enjoy today.
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- De Walter P. en 11-20-19
De: Lydia Pyne
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Ancestors in Our Genome
- The New Science of Human Evolution
- De: Eugene E. Harris
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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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. Written from the perspective of population genetics, and in simple terms, the book traces human origins back to their source among our earliest human ancestors, and explains many of the most intriguing questions that genome scientists are currently working to answer.
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Population genetics textbook with bad narrator
- De Talia en 05-25-20
De: Eugene E. Harris
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Masters of the Planet
- The Search for Our Human Origins
- De: Ian Tattersall
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led to its survival while the rest became extinct. Just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become masters of the planet? Ian Tattersall, curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us deep into the fossil record to uncover what made humans so special.
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Great Book, Some Sloppy Editing
- De DB en 11-23-20
De: Ian Tattersall
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
- De: David Reich
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archaeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our ancestry. In Who We Are and How We Got Here, Reich allows listeners to discover how the human genome provides not only all the information a human embryo needs to develop but also the hidden story of our species.
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Great Book, No Maps Available thru Audible
- De Jane W. en 07-15-18
De: David Reich
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The Smart Neanderthal
- Bird Catching, Cave Art & The Cognitive Revolution
- De: Clive Finlayson
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a "cognitive revolution" (c. 50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing archaic Homo species, ultimately leading to the superiority of modern humans. Or so we thought. As Clive Finlayson explains, the latest advances in genetics prove that there was significant interbreeding between modern humans and the Neanderthals.
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Birds, birds and more birds
- De Pamela en 01-05-20
De: Clive Finlayson
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Origin
- A Genetic History of the Americas
- De: Jennifer Raff
- Narrado por: Tanis Parenteau, Jennifer Raff - Interview, Yvonne Russo - Interview
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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Origin is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete genomes. Origin provides an overview of these new histories throughout North and South America, and a glimpse into how the tools of genetics reveal details about human history and evolution.
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A Superb Account Of The Science Of Indigenous American Anthropology
- De Linda S. en 02-21-22
De: Jennifer Raff
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Genetics in the Madhouse
- The Unknown History of Human Heredity
- De: Theodore M. Porter
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages.
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Before the Dawn
- Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
- De: Nicholas Wade
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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Just in the last three years a flood of new scientific findings, driven by revelations discovered in the human genome, has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries about our most ancient ancestors, the people who first evolved in Africa and then went on to colonize the whole world. Nicholas Wade weaves this host of news-making findings together for the first time into an intriguing new history of the human story before the dawn of civilization.
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Amazing information
- De Albert en 06-15-07
De: Nicholas Wade
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The Seven Daughters of Eve
- The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
- De: Bryan Sykes
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of both the Ice Man's discovery and his age, which was put at over 5,000 years, fascinated scientists and newspapers throughout the world. But what made Sykes's story particularly revelatory was his successful identification of a genetic descendant of the Ice Man, a woman living in Great Britain today. How was Sykes able to locate a living relative?
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- De Ann en 04-09-20
De: Bryan Sykes
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The First Human
- The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
- De: Ann Gibbons
- Narrado por: Renee Raudman
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the "missing links" between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious scientists intent on pinpointing the dawn of humankind. The quest to find where and when the earliest human ancestors first appeared is one of the most exciting and challenging of all scientific pursuits.
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Interesting subject, poor execution
- De A book reader en 10-14-06
De: Ann Gibbons
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Neanderthal Man
- In Search of Lost Genomes
- De: Svante Pääbo
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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A preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal genome to answer the biggest question of them all: what does it mean to be human? What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pbo’s mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009.
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- De Neuron en 01-19-15
De: Svante Pääbo
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The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries
- The Evidence and the People Who Found It
- De: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity's place in the universe into necessary perspective. Despite a history of controversy, the evidence for evolution continues to accumulate as a result of many separate strands of incredible scientific sleuthing. In The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero explores the most fascinating breakthroughs in piecing together the evidence for evolution.
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Meticulous explanations for a general audience.
- De tetrahymena en 04-03-24
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Almost Human
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- steve
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Excellent book
It is always a good idea to read a book where you have very little previous knowledge. This book is the one to read.
Writing is excellent and narration is very good.
Well worth your time
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- BB
- 01-31-22
Captivating
I was halfway through this fascinating story of our origins in Africa and just at the point where Lee Berger puts together an amazing team of scientists that become “astronauts” deep in ancient caves when I realized I had seen footage of this amazing group of women scientists going deep into treacherous caves to recover fossils on Nova on PBS. This is a wonderful book to listen to on audible and recounts the evolution of sharing information rapidly of new fossil finds that has changed the discipline of paleontology from secretive and restrictive to an approach that shares fossil discoveries worldwide and makes this exciting field accessible to so many.
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- Creative reader
- 09-06-22
Reality better than fiction
A spell binding tale of the discovery of ancient species of hominids. Told by the discoverer and in such detail that one feels like one is climbing into the caves fu of bones. This is an amazing time of understanding our ancient origins as humans. As exciting as the best detective story.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-02-20
Exciting Story!
Perfect weekend read. I was nervous that this book might be bogged down with scientific terms I didn't understand, but I was wonderfully surprised! Easy read for any layman who has a basic understanding of anthropology. The story is enticing and taps into the adventurer inside of everyone..finished it in just two days!
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- 4wethepeople
- 12-21-22
Sadly self aggrandizing effort
I admit I’ve only made it to chapter 9, and the author is clearly a significant actor in the hominid fossil discovery history. But the whiny, poor- me tone of the story as other anthropologists criticize his work really is over done in this book.
Don’t bother.
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- 07-11-23
Excellent!
I loved this book. Anyone interested in Anthropology and Archeology won’t be able to turn it off. It is worth all 5 stars.
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- Andi Rosenmeier
- 11-08-20
More Vanity than Anthropology
Seven chapters in and I can tell you many useless things about this man, yet very little about Early Man.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-24-21
Amazing!
An amazing journey! Wonderfully written and read. i highly recommend this book to all, especially those starting in this field of study.
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- Lacci Battafarano
- 11-19-20
A Great Anthropology Story
I really enjoyed this. The discovery of Homo Naledi and Professor Berger's whole career are fascinating. There are a few editing errors in the audio, repeated passages and stuff like that. I didn't find them too distracting.
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- wechselhau
- 07-19-22
A well-written narrative for interested non-scientists.
I’m NOT an expert in paleo anthropology. I AM a well-educated novice who has been fascinated by the topic and following new research since the mid-80’s.
I’m not going to opine on the specific scientific merits of the author’s position.
The work is engaging to listen to, fascinating for those interested in the subject, and presented in a way to make it accessible for folk whose interest in the subject might not be as deep as mine is.
His ideas are radical for some folk in his field, but his finds ARE definitely worth a longer look and careful consideration by his peers.
Plus, it’s free. Give it a listen, and at least hear the man out.
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