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Evolving Ourselves audiobook

  • By: Juan Enriquez
  • Narrator: Rob Shapiro
  • Category: Evolution, Life Sciences, Science
  • Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2015
  • Language: English
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Evolving Ourselves Audiobook Summary

A sweeping, paradigm-shifting account of how evolution is no longer driven just by nature but also by human choices

Why are conditions like autism, asthma, obesity, and allergies exploding at unprecedented rates? Why are we living longer, getting smarter, having far fewer kids? If Darwin was alive today, how would he explain this new world?

Today’s humans have developed such profound capabilities for redesigning bacteria, plants, animals, and ourselves that random mutation and natural selection are no longer the primary determinants of which species survive and how they change over time. Evolution is now increasingly driven by two forces: Unnatural Selection (what lives and dies has to do with human desires and choices, not the natural ability to reproduce and thrive) and Nonrandom Mutation (our techniques have gotten so precise that we can drastically alter the genetics of any life form).

Evolving Ourselves is a chronicle of how life is evolving to meet our specs and choices, of how we can change our own biology, and of the unintended consequences for future generations. It proves that how we use our enormous power over life forms and our ability to engineer new environments will determine nothing less than the survival of humanity.

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Evolving Ourselves Audiobook Narrator

Rob Shapiro is the narrator of Evolving Ourselves audiobook that was written by Juan Enriquez

About the Author(s) of Evolving Ourselves

Juan Enriquez is the author of Evolving Ourselves

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Subjects

The publisher of the Evolving Ourselves is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: non-fiction, science, evolution, biology, popular science, intelligent design, creationism, darwin, natural selection, gene editing, futurism, transhumanism, biotechnology, innovation, human evolution, evolutionary biology, genetics, TED, ted talk, AI, mutation, VR, artificial intelligence, future, smarter, smarter faster better, genes, dna, evolutionary psychology, science books, ancestry, science gifts, gene, science gifts for adults, epigenetics, biology gifts, biology book, complexity, science books for adults, science book, Science, Life Sciences, Evolution, Science, Life Sciences, Genetics & Genomics, Science, Philosophy & Social Aspects The BISAC Subject Code is Evolution, Life Sciences, Science

Additional info

The publisher of the Evolving Ourselves is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780698189133.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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