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Cannibalism
- De: Bill Schutt
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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Eating one's own kind is a completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons related to famine, burial rites, and medicine. Cannibalism has also been used as a form of terrorism and as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, Bill Schutt takes us on a tour of the field, exploring exciting new avenues of research and investigating questions like why so many fish eat their offspring and some amphibians consume their mothers' skin.
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Ruined it at the end
- De Kimberly Ames en 12-07-17
De: Bill Schutt
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites
- How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
- De: Kathleen McAuliffe
- Narrado por: Nicol Zanzarella
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creatures - including humans - think, feel, and act. These tiny organisms can live only inside another animal, and, as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their host's behavior. Far more often than appreciated, these puppeteers orchestrate the interplay between predator and prey.
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Entertaining but questionable studies
- De mdkoci en 01-02-17
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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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Genesis
- The Deep Origin of Societies
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
- Duración: 3 h y 8 m
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Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. Of these, Wilson demonstrates that at least 17 - among them the African naked mole rat and the sponge-dwelling shrimp - have been found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation.
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Simply awful
- De Mike A Klotz en 02-07-20
De: Edward O. Wilson
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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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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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As great as everyone says it is
- De Joseph en 12-01-10
De: Jerry A. Coyne
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Welcome to the Microbiome
- Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You
- De: Rob DeSalle, Susan L. Perkins
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 7 h y 25 m
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Suddenly, research findings require a paradigm shift in our view of the microbial world. The Human Microbiome Project at the National Institutes of Health is well under way, and unprecedented scientific technology now allows the censusing of trillions of microbes inside and on our bodies as well as in the places where we live, work, and play. This intriguing, up-to-the-minute book for scientists and nonscientists alike explains what researchers are discovering about the microbe world and what the implications are for modern science and medicine.
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I learned so much from this book. I am happy.
- De Jonathan Miller en 09-08-18
De: Rob DeSalle, y otros
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An Epidemic of Absence
- A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases
- De: Moises Velasquez-Manoff
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 17 h y 6 m
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An Epidemic of Absence asks what will happen in developing countries, which, as they become more affluent, have already seen an uptick in allergic disease: Will India end up more allergic than Europe? Velasquez-Manoff also details a controversial underground movement that has coalesced around the treatment of immune-mediated disorders with parasites. Against much of his better judgment, he joins these do-it-yourselfers and reports his surprising results.
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The point of view from a Veterinarian immunologist
- De rtgymnast en 11-03-17
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Domesticated
- Evolution in a Man-Made World
- De: Richard C. Francis
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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Without our domesticated plants and animals, human civilization as we know it would not exist. We would still be living at subsistence level as hunter-gatherers if not for domestication. It is no accident that the cradle of civilization - the Middle East - is where sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, and cats commenced their fatefully intimate associations with humans.
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Well, what did you expect?
- De Mark en 03-25-16
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Blueprint
- The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
- 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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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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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
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Paleofantasy
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- David
- 09-29-15
Love a good discussion of Evolution and not....
Excellent discussion of Evolution and a lot of current health trends. I have found that many people don't begin to understand evolution. In particular they seem to see evolution as a directing force towards some optimal form. However, that assumes a static system so there can be some optimal form. I think the author does a thorough job of debunking that particular fantasy. The other fantasy she goes after is that there was once some idealized state of man before the fall, which lately seems to be staked to the rise of agriculture. She references a lot of interesting evidence of what our species was and was doing which challenges most or perhaps, all of the notions of what she refers to as paleofantacists. It's interesting to see evidence based on dental plaque on our most ancient remains. If you are trying to eat like our ancestors, or exercise like our ancestors because you believe that it is inherently better, you'll likely be wrong. On the exercise front, it appears that a lot of the notions of what we were doesn't line up with the evidence either. I think this is an important read. I feel more prepared when some paleo zealot wants to drone on endlessly about the truth of our ancestry, and I can ask how he or she knows that, and be able to challenge them better. I may be a curmudgeon on the subject, but I get bored with folks treating pseudoscience reverentially. Look, if it's what you want to believe, and it doesn't interfere with me, you go right ahead. Just don't try and muddle science and call it gospel. Go do the research from people who study genetics, anthropology, paleontology, and stay away from the cranks, please.
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- 08-29-16
mediocre
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There is good information here. Unfortunately the book is filled with horrible prose and useless remarks. The audio book is not helped by the narrator who has bad intonation and cadence. I am surprised that the book's editor and the audio producer would have let this pass.
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- Gary
- 08-09-13
Clever narative device, covers many topics
The author uses the clever narrative device of using modern day caveman wannabes incorrect beliefs and tells a story that teaches the reader about prehistory, evolution, psychology, diet, genetics and etc.
She'll state an incorrect caveman wannabe belief. Show why it's absurd. State that "the truth is much more complex than that", and give all the relative current science on that matter and how it doesn't really make sense. All the while doing it in a highly listenable way because the topics are always interesting.
This is a good book. She's not a great writer and sometimes takes multiple paragraphs to say something that should have been said in a single paragraph. The narrator is not a great narrator either.
I'd much prefer an interesting topic presently poorly than a boring topic presented well. If you have an interest in how we fit into the universe (and who doesn't?), I'd recommend this book strongly.
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- Alyson
- 07-18-18
It may not be what you want to hear, but it’s important to hear!
Marlene Zuk has done a solid job of pulling together research from multiple arenas of science to back up everything she is explaining. She uses great analogies and helps us to understand more clearly our own evolutionary past and future.
I would have rated this book higher, but at some points I struggled to make sense of what was being said. I think I’m going to get a hard copy of this book so that I can more fully digest her claims and information. While not a “beginners guide“ to evolution and natural selection and the science behind how we understand it, Zuk does a really good job of helping to make the complex understandable.
I teach high school biology so I probably have more background then the average listener, but this book is so important for everyone to at least think about. She lays out a very strong case for why it is false to think that humans are “done“ evolving and that natural selection does not still work on us.
Her treatment of the Paleo crowd is not harsh but is not particularly kind. She is more matter-of-fact and clearly explains why our fantasy with all things Paleo is just that, a fantasy.
A solid listen, but I think it would be a better physical read. If you don’t have the time for it though, listening is the next best thing.
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- Frank H.
- 06-08-16
An Entertaining & Informative Book
I enjoyed the author pithy writing style, and the narrator's perfectly pitched "snarky" delivery of Ms. Zuk's sharply reasoned, factually data based arguments that first punctured and then swept away the debris of so many Half Baked, and somewhat looney evolutionary based food and disease related theories and fads.
A good listen! ;-)
FCHOWLANDJR, Oxford-on-the-Choccolocco, AL
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- astaiannymph
- 03-13-16
Excellent
This book was amazing. It really helps you think about calling back to human evolutionary history. It lost me a little bit near the end, but overall worth reading.
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- Elly
- 04-28-16
Interesting rebuttal of the ideas behind paleo
The author takes the ideas behind the paleo movement one by one and confronts them with the scientific research available. Humans are still evolving and we never fitted perfectly into the one hunter gatherer society, one reason is that there is no single such society.
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- Sarah
- 04-15-14
Awful narrator
What did you like best about Paleofantasy? What did you like least?
It was interesting but was a bit long winded and sciency. It was definitely food for thought but could have been condensed which would have kept me listening more consistently.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Paleofantasy?
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Would you be willing to try another one of Laura Darrell’s performances?
Maybe for fiction. Her voice was really annoying when listening to a scientific book. If I hear "neandra-tal" instead of "neandra-thal" one more time I'll kick a puppy.
Do you think Paleofantasy needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
No.
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- Azura S
- 12-01-18
A Brilliant Book With Awful Narration
The narrator appears to be struggling with reading throughout. It's awkwardly paced, phrased and she has a whining tone on top of that. This is a shame because the data within is fascinating and I learned an awful lot about evolutionary biology from this text. I, cautiously, recommend this but I am thinking reading it would be far less painful than listening to it. One of the worst things about this is that the author clearly has a good sense of humor and a keen wit and it's completely butchered by the reading of this work. I would love to read more by this author but I'd prefer to avoid the narrator completely in future.
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- thequickbrownfox
- 05-15-16
Politics distracts from interesting science
There's a lot of interesting science, about genetics, evolution, sociology, and paleontology. I greatly enjoy works that explore topics using evidence from multiple disciplines.
However, the author's feminism and antipathy towards the paleo culture casts a shadow, leaving an impression that some of the evidence is selected from confirmation bias rather than letting the evidence lead.
it's still a good listen.
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