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The Secrets in Us
- By: Georgina Lawton
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What happens when your family tells you one thing, but a DNA test tells you another? Georgina Lawton grew up in a loving family but she didn’t look like anyone else. She has dark eyes, curly hair and brown skin. Both her parents were white. Georgina took a DNA test. The results changed her life forever. With millions around the world using 'do-it-yourself' DNA testing kits, Georgina follows the stories of those learning to live with the results.
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Captivating and candid!
- By A twisted crown of thorns! on 26-11-20
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How to Sleep Like a Caveman
- Ancient Wisdom for a Better Night’s Rest
- By: Merijn van de Laar
- Narrated by: Joe Eyre
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Sleep has hardly changed since Paleolithic humans snoozed soundly in their caves. While sabre-toothed tigers were their biggest night-time worry, today it’s stress and social media that keep us awake, but the solutions are the same, and sleep therapist Dr Merijn van de Laar offers...
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How to Sleep Like a Caveman
- Ancient Wisdom for a Better Night’s Rest
- Narrated by: Joe Eyre
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 16-01-25
- Language: English
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Most Delicious Poison
- The Story of Nature's Toxins―from Spices to Vices
- By: Noah Whiteman
- Narrated by: Noah Whiteman
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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Scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxglove leaf, a magic-mushroom cap, a marijuana bud, or an apple seed, and we find a bevy of strange chemicals. We use these to greet our days (caffeine), titillate our tongues (capsaicin), recover from surgery (opioids), cure infections (penicillin), mend our hearts (digoxin), bend our minds (psilocybin), calm our nerves (CBD), and even kill our enemies (cyanide). But why do plants and fungi produce such chemicals? And how did we come to use and abuse some of them?
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amazing
- By Fernanda B on 13-05-25
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Most Delicious Poison
- The Story of Nature's Toxins―from Spices to Vices
- Narrated by: Noah Whiteman
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 24-10-23
- Language: English
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The Social Paradox
- Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness
- By: William von Hippel
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A Next Big Idea Club Must Read of February 2025 From the author of The Social Leap comes this thought-provoking exploration into humans’ two core evolutionary needs, for connection and autonomy, how the modern world has thrown them out of whack, and how we can rebalance them to improve our...
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The Social Paradox
- Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 18-02-25
- Language: English
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The Social Instinct
- How Cooperation Shaped the World
- By: Nichola Raihani
- Narrated by: Nichola Raihani
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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Why cooperate? This may be the most important scientific question we have ever, and will ever, face. The science of cooperation tells us not only how we got here, but also where we might end up. Cooperation explains how strands of DNA gave rise to modern-day nation states. It defines our extraordinary ecological success, as well as many of the most surprising features of what make us human: not only why we live in families, why we have grandmothers and why women experience the menopause, but also why we become paranoid and jealous, and why we cheat.
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Fascinating
- By veyza on 14-02-23
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The Social Instinct
- How Cooperation Shaped the World
- Narrated by: Nichola Raihani
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 03-06-21
- Language: English
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What Is Life?
- How Chemistry Becomes Biology
- By: Addy Pross
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Seventy years ago, Erwin Schrdinger posed a simple, yet profound, question: What is life?. How could the very existence of such extraordinary chemical systems be understood? This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists both before, and ever since. Living things are hugely complex and have unique properties, such as self-maintenance and apparently purposeful behaviour which we do not see in inert matter. So how does chemistry give rise to biology?
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Such a complete experience
- By Anonymous on 29-04-20
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What Is Life?
- How Chemistry Becomes Biology
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 14-10-14
- Language: English
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Rebel Cell
- Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life
- By: Dr Kat Arney
- Narrated by: Dr Kat Arney
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance23
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Cancer has always been with us. It killed our hominid ancestors, the mammals they evolved from and the dinosaurs that trampled the ground before that. Tumours grow in pets, livestock and wild animals. Even tiny jelly-like Hydra - creatures that are little more than a tube full of water - can get cancer. Paradoxically, many of us think of cancer as a contemporary killer, a disease of our own making caused by our modern lifestyles.
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Superb narration, but content was not what I hoped
- By steve b on 15-10-20
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Rebel Cell
- Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life
- Narrated by: Dr Kat Arney
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 06-08-20
- Language: English
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They Had Names
- Tracing the History of the North American Indigenous People
- By: Nathaniel Jeanson
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Jeanson
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Before the Pilgrims landed at Cape Cod, what was happening in North America? Who was there? What civilizations rose and fell? For years, the answers to these questions have been shrouded in mystery. At the time of European contact, a diverse world of Native peoples thrived across the continent. What was their backstory? Who were the ancestors of the Sioux? Where did the Navajo come from? What about the Apache, the Comanche, the Cherokee?
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Thought provoking
- By mkb204 on 04-10-25
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They Had Names
- Tracing the History of the North American Indigenous People
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Jeanson
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 11-06-25
- 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
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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**Shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize** The bestselling author of Your Inner Fish takes readers on an epic adventure to the North and South Poles to reveal the secrets locked in the ice about life, the cosmos, and our planet’s future. “Urgent [and]...
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Ends of the Earth
- Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-02-25
- Language: English
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The Powerful Primate
- How Controlling Energy Enabled Us to Build Civilization
- By: Roland Ennos
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Over five million years ago, a group of primates discovered tools. Perhaps it was a large rock, ideal for cracking nuts, or a stick to extract honey from a beehive. Regardless, the future of our planet was changed forever. Slowly, the primate evolved, abandoning the trees for solid ground and four legs for two–and the tools changed with it. Stones were sharpened, then attached to sticks, before stone gave way to bronze, iron, steel.
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The Powerful Primate
- How Controlling Energy Enabled Us to Build Civilization
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 05-03-26
- Language: English
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When the Earth Was Green
- Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
- By: Riley Black
- Narrated by: Wren Mack
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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“You'll root for these creatures and their survival. A marvelous narration.”—Booklist “Paleontologist Riley Black’s vivid writing and Wren Mack’s wonderstruck narration make these vignettes of prehistoric life on Earth fascinating listening.”—AudioFile Winner, A Friend of Darwin...
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When the Earth Was Green
- Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
- Narrated by: Wren Mack
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 25-02-25
- Language: English
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What Is Health?
- Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design
- By: Peter Sterling
- Narrated by: George Gopen
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Homo sapiens emerged as a species about 200,000 years ago and soon—with fire, simple tools, and an egalitarian social system—we inhabited every continent. But now our infinitely elaborated tools and our highly non-egalitarian social system threaten sustainability. Many at the bottom lose the desire to live, committing suicide or succumbing to drugs, alcohol, and obesity. What is Health? explains from the bottom up—molecules to society—how we reached this point.
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What Is Health?
- Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design
- Narrated by: George Gopen
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 04-10-23
- Language: English
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First Steps
- How Walking Upright Made Us Human
- By: Jeremy DeSilva
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from bipedalism. First Steps takes our ordinary, everyday...
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will play this again and again
- By Gemma Bartlett on 29-02-24
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First Steps
- How Walking Upright Made Us Human
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 13-04-21
- Language: English
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Sapiens
- En kort historie om menneskeheden
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Niels Vedersø
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
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For 100.000 år siden var Jorden beboet af mindst seks menneskearter. I dag er der kun en tilbage: Os. Homo sapiens. Hvorfor endte lige praecis vores art med at herske over kloden? Hvordan kunne vores jaeger- og samlerforfaedre enes om at bygge byer og skabe kongeriger? Hvorfor begyndte vi at tro på guder, nationer og menneskerettigheder? At have tillid til penge, bøger og love? Og vaere slaver af bureaukrati, tidsplaner og forbrugerisme? Og hvordan vil vores verden udvikle sig i det naeste årtusinde?
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Sapiens
- En kort historie om menneskeheden
- Narrated by: Niels Vedersø
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 06-01-16
- Language: Danish
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The Resilience Response
- The New Science of Trauma and How We Heal Across Generations
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 01-04-27
- Language: English
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Transcendence
- How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
- By: Gaia Vince
- Narrated by: Gaia Vince
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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How four tools enabled humanity to control its destiny What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Listeners of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution - a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones - caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture that goes back into deep time.
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A great flowing history of humankind.
- By Mr T J Lynass on 29-01-24
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Transcendence
- How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
- Narrated by: Gaia Vince
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 21-01-20
- Language: English
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The Origin of Politics
- How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations
- By: Nicholas Wade
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Societies that ignore social disintegration and collapsing birth rates are putting their future in peril. So why are we ignoring the signs? ?In The Origin Of Politics, Nicholas Wade explains how our political systems compete with a more ancient set of rules for organizing society—those...
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The Origin of Politics
- How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 09-09-25
- Language: English
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The Genesis Machine
- Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
- By: Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel
- Narrated by: Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, Tim Campbell, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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A New Yorker Best Book of the Year A breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence and has the potential to program biological systems like we program computers. The breakthrough science of...
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Important topic but lacks novel insights
- By Donnacha FItzgerald on 24-03-24
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The Genesis Machine
- Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
- Narrated by: Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, Tim Campbell, Landon Woodson, Amanda Dolan
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 15-02-22
- Language: English
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Darwin's Origin of Species
- A Biography: Books That Changed the World
- By: Janet Browne
- Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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Charles Darwin's foremost biographer, Janet Browne, delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of the Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin's seminal work is nearly as controversial today.
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Worthy but dull
- By Allan on 16-02-08
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Darwin's Origin of Species
- A Biography: Books That Changed the World
- Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
- Series: Books That Changed the World
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-03-07
- Language: English
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The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars
- Cheating and Deception in the Living World
- By: Lixing Sun
- Narrated by: Jason Vu
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Nature is rife with cheating. Possums play possum, feigning death to cheat predators. Crows cry wolf to scare off rivals. Amphibians and reptiles are inveterate impostors. Even genes and cells cheat. The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars explores the evolution of cheating in the natural world, revealing how dishonesty has given rise to wondrous diversity.
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The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars
- Cheating and Deception in the Living World
- Narrated by: Jason Vu
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 18-04-23
- Language: English
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