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Blueprint
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- De: Nicholas A. Christakis
- Narrado por: Nicholas A. Christakis
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all our inventions - our tools, farms, machines, cities, nations - we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society.
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Many interesting thoughts
- De Jonas Blomberg Ghini en 06-01-19
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Our Political Nature
- The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us
- De: Avi Tuschman
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 17 h y 42 m
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Our Political Nature is the first book to reveal the hidden roots of our most deeply held moral values. It shows how political orientations across space and time arise from three clusters of measurable personality traits. These clusters entail opposing attitudes toward tribalism, inequality, and differing perceptions of human nature. Together, these traits are by far the most powerful cause of left-right voting, even leading people to regularly vote against their economic interests.
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A Trivial Version of Haidt's "The Righteous Mind"
- De Curt Doolittle en 10-29-13
De: Avi Tuschman
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On Human Nature: Revised Edition
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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This revised edition of Human Nature begins a new phase in the most important intellectual controversy of this generation: Is human behavior controlled by the species' biological heritage? Does this heritage limit human destiny?
With characteristic pungency and simplicity of style, the author of Sociobiology challenges old prejudices and current misconceptions about the nature-nurture debate.
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A Heralding Voice...
- De Douglas en 07-22-14
De: Edward O. Wilson
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How Sex Works
- De: Sharon Moalem
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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Can twins have different fathers? From the composition and function of human sex organs to the fascinating biochemistry behind sexual attraction, How Sex Works presents captivating new ideas and surprising answers to questions about contraception, fertility, circumcision, menopause, STDs, homosexuality, orgasms, and more. This is an entertaining, comprehensive exploration of culture, biology, and history that takes us far beyond our common understanding of sex.
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An interesting and easy listen
- De colleen en 06-15-12
De: Sharon Moalem
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Blindspot
- De: Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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I know my own mind. I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way. These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality. Blindspot is the authors’ metaphor for the portion of the mind that houses hidden biases.
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Difficult to interpret.
- De Ryan Arnold en 12-21-15
De: Mahzarin R. Banaji, y otros
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The Genetic Lottery
- Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
- De: Kathryn Paige Harden
- Narrado por: Katherine Fenton
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different. Weaving together personal stories with scientific evidence, Harden shows why our refusal to recognize the power of DNA perpetuates the myth of meritocracy, and argues that we must acknowledge the role of genetic luck if we are ever to create a fair society.
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Mix of Genetic Science and Ideology
- De James en 10-12-21
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Sex, Time, and Power
- How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
- De: Leonard Shlain
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
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Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human female's pelvis and the increasing size of infants' heads precipitated a crisis for the species. Natural selection allowed for reconfiguration of hormonal cycles, entraining women with the periodicity of the moon - and imbuing women with the concept of time.
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Interesting conjecture
- De DJKPP en 10-15-20
De: Leonard Shlain
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The Age of Insight
- The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
- De: Eric R. Kandel
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 16 h y 8 m
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A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind - our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions - and how mind and brain relate to art.
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Worth the listen
- De Amazon Customer en 01-28-19
De: Eric R. Kandel
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The Self Illusion
- Why There Is No "You" Inside Your Head
- De: Bruce Hood
- Narrado por: Bruce Hood
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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The Self Illusion provides a fascinating examination of how the latest science shows that our individual concept of a self is in fact an illusion. Most of us believe that we possess a self - an internal individual who resides inside our bodies, making decisions, authoring actions and possessing free will. The feeling that a single, unified, enduring self inhabits the body is compelling and inescapable. But that sovereignty of the self is increasingly under threat from science as our understanding of the brain advances.
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Disappointing
- De David R Pinsof en 05-10-12
De: Bruce Hood
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Wild Justice
- The Moral Lives of Animals
- De: Marc Bekoff, Jessica Pierce
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. Yet what are we to make of a female gorilla in a German zoo who spent days mourning the death of her baby? Or a wild female elephant who cared for a younger one after she was injured by a rambunctious teenage male?
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What Some Of Us Have Always Known...
- De Douglas en 12-12-13
De: Marc Bekoff, y otros
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The Spiritual Brain
- A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul
- De: Mario Beauregard, Denyse O'Leary
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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Does religious experience come from God, or is it just the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on brain research on Carmelite nuns that has attracted major media attention and provocative new research in near-death experiences, The Spiritual Brain proves that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. The authors make a convincing case for what many in science are loathe to consider: that it is God who creates our spiritual experiences, not the brain.
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interesting topic, but frustrating listen
- De Barry T en 08-27-08
De: Mario Beauregard, y otros
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Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life
- A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity Are Revolutionizing Our View of Human Nature
- De: Douglas T. Kenrick
- Narrado por: Fred Stella
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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Between what can be learned from evolutionary psychology and cognitive science a picture emerges. In Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life, social psychologist Douglas Kenrick fuses these two fields to create a coherent story of human nature. In his analysis, many ingrained, apparently irrational behaviors—one-night stands, prejudice, conspicuous consumption, even art and religious devotion—are quite explicable and (when desired) avoidable.
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Rather dated and self-aggrandizing
- De Laurie Frick en 07-21-11
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- Gary
- 06-10-23
The title is misleading
The book describes a lot about the existence of homosexuality but certainly does not give a definitive answer to why.
I am a gay man in his 60s. I knew I was different when I was a kid and I did everything in my power to change that. I worked hard to man up for lack of better terms. I learned to speak in a deeper voice and annunciation. I taught myself to walk different. I pretended to be interested in girls. I watched what other guys admired in women's bodies and acted like I noticed
I eventually got married had children and came out later in life after the military lifted its ban on homosexuality. I had a long military career.
This is a long story about wanting to know why.
I really didn't get that answer.
The book did give me insight Into not blaming myself and I think it was helpful in proving its not a choice.
The odd thing for me is my family is more accepting of me than I am of myself. The eraI grew up in and the long military career still make me question myself. This book helped.
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- Matt H.
- 06-28-17
Excellent litterature review on the topic
This book summarizes scientific studies on the reasons behind sexual orientation and behavior. It describes multiple hypotheses, experiments and findings on the topic.
Well written. Good voice acting. Contains lots of valuable information.
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