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Life as No One Knows It
- The Physics of Life's Emergence
- By: Sara Imari Walker
- Narrated by: Sara Imari Walker
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life originates or the full range of possibilities for what life on other planets might look like. In Life as No One Knows It, physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker argues that solving the origin of life requires radical new thinking and an experimentally testable theory for what life is.
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Life as No One Knows It
- The Physics of Life's Emergence
- Narrated by: Sara Imari Walker
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-06-24
- Language: English
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The Genetic Book of the Dead
- By: Richard Dawkins, Jana Lenzová - illustrator
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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In this groundbreaking approach to the evolution of all life, Richard Dawkins shows how the body, behaviour, and genes of every living creature can be read as a book – an archive of the worlds of its ancestors. A perfectly camouflaged desert lizard has a desiccated landscape of sand and stones ‘painted’ on its back. Its skin can be read as a description of ancient deserts in which its ancestors survived – and, before that, of the worlds of its more remote ancestors: a genetic book of the dead.
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The Genetic Book of the Dead
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 10-10-24
- Language: English
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The Origin of Politics
- By: Nicholas Wade
- Length: 12 hrs
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Combining the scope of Yuval Noah Harari with the political savvy of Francis Fukuyama, The Origin of Politics, Wade’s work draws from anthropology, evolutionary biology, and historical analysis to explore how human nature shapes the direction of society—and how policies which ignore human nature risk chaos and even extinction. Political scientists agree that the roots of politics must lie in human nature, but then assume that human behavior is infinitely flexible. The Origin of Politics shows that limits set by human evolution cannot be ignored without penalty.
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The Origin of Politics
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 04-29-25
- Language: English
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The Knowledge Gene
- By: Lynne Kelly
- Narrated by: Jessica Douglas-Henry
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Over 500,000 years ago, a single gene mutated. It spread over time, becoming critical in the journey transforming our earliest ancestors into fully modern humans, capable of navigating the entire planet and beyond. Then just a few thousand years ago, humans gradually outsourced knowledge to writing, and we displaced art and music from the heart of learning. This is the extraordinary story of the discovery of a supergene that makes us uniquely human.
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The Knowledge Gene
- Narrated by: Jessica Douglas-Henry
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 09-03-24
- Language: English
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Why Animals Talk
- The New Science of Animal Communication
- By: Arik Kershenbaum
- Narrated by: John Hastings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Why Animals Talk is an exhilarating journey through the untamed world of animal communication. Following his international bestseller, The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy, acclaimed zoologist Arik Kershenbaum draws on extensive original research to reveal how many of the animal kingdom’s most seemingly confusing or untranslatable signals are in fact logical and consistent—and not that different from our own.
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Why Animals Talk
- The New Science of Animal Communication
- Narrated by: John Hastings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 08-06-24
- Language: English
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Bite
- An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans
- By: Bill Schutt
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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In Bite, zoologist Bill Schutt makes a surprising case: it is teeth that are responsible for the long-term success of vertebrates. The appearance of teeth, roughly half a billion years ago, was an adaptation that allowed animals with backbones, such as fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, dinosaurs and mammals—including us—to chow down in pretty much every conceivable environment.
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Bite
- An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 08-13-24
- Language: English
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Is Earth Exceptional?
- The Quest for Cosmic Life
- By: Dr. Mario Livio PhD, Dr. Jack Szostak PhD
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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For a long time, scientists have wondered how life has emerged from inanimate chemistry, and whether Earth is the only place where it exists. Charles Darwin speculated about life on Earth beginning in a warm little pond. Some of his contemporaries believed that life existed on Mars. It once seemed inevitable that the truth would be known by now. It is not. For more than a century, the origins and extent of life have remained shrouded in mystery. But, as Mario Livio and Jack Szostak reveal in Is Earth Exceptional?, the veil is finally lifting.
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Is Earth Exceptional?
- The Quest for Cosmic Life
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 09-10-24
- Language: English
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Living on Earth
- Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
- By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Narrated by: Mitch Riley, Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years—most of our planet’s history and over a quarter of the age of the universe (as far as we can tell). What have these organisms—bacteria, animals, plants, and the rest—done in all this time? In Living on Earth, the philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith proposes a new way of understanding how the actions of living beings have shaped our planet.
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Living on Earth
- Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
- Narrated by: Mitch Riley, Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-03-24
- Language: English
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When the Earth Was Green
- Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
- By: Riley Black
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Riley Black brings listeners back in time to prehistoric seas, swamps, forests, and savannas where critical moments in plant evolution unfolded. Each chapter stars plants and animals alike, underscoring how the interactions between species have helped shape the world we call home. As the chapters move upwards in time, Black guides listeners along the burgeoning trunk of the Tree of Life, stopping to appreciate branches of an evolutionary story that links the world we know with one we can only just perceive now through the silent stone, from ancient roots to the present.
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When the Earth Was Green
- Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 02-25-25
- Language: English
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Ends of the Earth
- Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
- By: Neil Shubin
- Length: 14 hrs
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For three decades, renowned scientist Neil Shubin has made extraordinary discoveries by leading scientific expeditions to the sweeping ice landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic. He’s survived polar storms and faced the limits of human endurance to explore questions of how life survived and adapted, and what our future on a changing planet may hold. Written with enthusiasm and irresistible curiosity, Shubin shares lively adventure stories from the field to reveal just how far scientists will go to understand polar regions and to reveal the poles’ impact on the rest of life on the planet.
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Ends of the Earth
- Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
- Length: 14 hrs
- Release date: 02-04-25
- Language: English
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The Darwinian Trap
- The Hidden Evolutionary Forces That Explain Our World (and Threaten Our Future)
- By: Kristian Rönn
- Length: 9 hrs
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A provocative exploration of how humans are wired to seek short-term success at the expense of long-term survival—an evolutionary “glitch” that explains everything from toxic workplaces to climate change.
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The Darwinian Trap
- The Hidden Evolutionary Forces That Explain Our World (and Threaten Our Future)
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 09-24-24
- Language: English
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The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
- How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World
- By: Peter Brannen
- Length: 12 hrs
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Carbon dioxide. This seemingly simple and ubiquitous substance is fundamental to how our planet works. All life is made from CO2 and its behavior on this planet has kept it bizarrely habitable for hundreds of millions of years. In its workings lie both the splendor of our world—and the potential for life’s destruction. In short, it is the most important substance in Earth’s history.
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The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
- How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 05-20-25
- Language: English
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The Social Paradox
- Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 02-18-25
- Language: English
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Our Future Is Biotech
- A Plain English Guide to How a Tech Revolution is Changing Our Lives and Our Health for the Better
- By: Andrew Craig
- Length: 10 hrs
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The Apples, Amazons and Googles of the next few decades will be biotech companies. The tech companies of the last few years have changed how we do things but the businesses driving the biotech revolution are about making life better. These companies will solve many of our most intractable problems: cancer, dementia, diabetes, elderly care, mental health challenges, even power generation and agricultural production. Biotech will mean that we can live far better, safer, healthier, wealthier, happier, and longer lives.
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Our Future Is Biotech
- A Plain English Guide to How a Tech Revolution is Changing Our Lives and Our Health for the Better
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 08-29-24
- Language: English
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Living on Earth
- Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
- By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Narrated by: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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In Living on Earth, Godfrey-Smith takes us on a grand tour of the history of life on earth. He visits Rwandan gorillas and Australian bowerbirds, returns to coral reefs and octopus dens, considers the impact of language and writing, and weighs the responsibilities our unique powers bring with them, as they relate to factory farming, habitat preservation, climate change, and the use of animals in experiments.
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Living on Earth
- Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
- Narrated by: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 08-15-24
- Language: English
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The Miracle Century
- Making Sense of the Cell Therapy Revolution
- By: Scott Gottlieb
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs
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While traditional drugs mostly help us manage the effects of disease, cell therapies promise genuine cures for a broad range of intractable ailments, from Alzheimer’s to heart damage to cancer. They could even reverse the effects of aging. For the first time in history, on an unprecedented scale, we possess the power to modify the biology that gives rise to disease, ultimately restoring individuals to a state of normalcy and reversing debilitating ailments. Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb traces the scientific achievements that propelled progress in cell therapies.
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The Miracle Century
- Making Sense of the Cell Therapy Revolution
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 02-04-25
- Language: English
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Birds, Sex, and Beauty
- The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea
- By: Matt Ridley
- Length: 12 hrs
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The New York Times bestselling author of Genome and The Evolution of Everything revisits Darwin’s revelatory theory of mate choice through the close study of the peculiar rituals of birds, and how understanding this driver of evolution complicates our view of even how human mating evolved. In Birds, Sex, and Beauty, Ridley reopens the history of Darwin’s vexed theory, laying bare a century of disagreement about an idea so powerful, so weird, so wonderful, we may have yet to understand all of its implications.
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Birds, Sex, and Beauty
- The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 04-01-25
- Language: English
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The Lost World of the Dinosaurs
- On the Trail of the Dinosaurs' Final Secrets
- By: Armin Schmitt
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 8 hrs
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The Lost World of the Dinosaurs
- On the Trail of the Dinosaurs' Final Secrets
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 11-05-24
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
- By: Henry Gee
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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We are living through a period that is unique in human history. For the first time in more than ten thousand years, the rate of human population growth is slowing down. In the middle of this century population growth will stop, and the number of people on Earth will start to decline—fast. In this provocative book, award-winning science writer Henry Gee offers a concise, brilliantly told history of our species—and argues that we are on a rapid one-way trip to extinction.
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 03-18-25
- Language: English
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Living on Earth
- Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
- By: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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In Living on Earth, Godfrey-Smith takes us on a grand tour of the history of life on earth. He visits Rwandan gorillas and Australian bowerbirds, returns to coral reefs and octopus dens, considers the impact of language and writing, and weighs the responsibilities our unique powers bring with them, as they relate to factory farming, habitat preservation, climate change, and the use of animals in experiments. Living on Earth shows that Humans belong to the infinitely complex system that is the Earth, and our minds are products of that system, but we are also an acting force within it.
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Living on Earth
- Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 08-15-24
- Language: English
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