17 Best Biology, Science Books
Biology, Science is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Biology, Science audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 17 Biology, Science audiobooks below.
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Viral
- By: Matt Ridley
- Narrator: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 16, 2021
- Language: English
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4.35(799 ratings)
4.35(799 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USD“Chan and Ridley write with an urgency…that inspires gripping depictions of what viruses are, how infectious-disease laboratories work and wonderfully lucid descriptions of bats. . . . They powerfully recount how dangerous pathogens can“Chan and Ridley write with an urgency…that inspires gripping depictions of what viruses are, how infectious-disease laboratories work and wonderfully lucid descriptions of bats. . . . They powerfully recount how dangerous pathogens can both leak from a lab and emerge in nature.” (New York Times Book Review)
Understanding how Covid-19 started is crucial for the future of humankind. Viral is the most incisive and authoritative book about the search for the source of the virus.
A new virus descended on the human species in 2019 wreaking unprecedented havoc. Finding out where it came from and how it first jumped into people is an urgent priority, but early expectations that this would prove an easy question to answer have been dashed. Nearly two years into the pandemic, the crucial mystery of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is not only unresolved but has deepened.
In this uniquely insightful book, a scientist and a writer join forces to try to get to the bottom of how a virus whose closest relations live in bats in subtropical southern China somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometres away in the city of Wuhan. They grapple with the baffling fact that the virus left none of the expected traces that such outbreaks usually create: no infected market animals or wildlife, no chains of early cases in travellers to the city, no smouldering epidemic in a rural area, no rapid adaptation of the virus to its new host–human beings.
To try to solve this pressing mystery, Viral delves deep into the events of 2019 leading up to 2021, the details of what went on in animal markets and virology laboratories, the records and data hidden from sight within archived Chinese theses and websites, and the clues that can be coaxed from the very text of the virus’s own genetic code.
The result is a gripping detective story that takes the reader deeper and deeper into a metaphorical cave of mystery. One by one the authors explore promising tunnels only to show that they are blind alleys, until, miles beneath the surface, they find themselves tantalisingly close to a shaft that leads to the light.
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Silent Earth
- By: Dave Goulson
- Narrator: Dave Goulson
- Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 28, 2021
- Language: English
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4.31(487 ratings)
4.31(487 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDIn the tradition of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking environmental classic Silent Spring, an award-winning entomologist and conservationist explains the importance of insects to our survival, and offers a clarion call to avoid a loomingIn the tradition of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking environmental classic Silent Spring, an award-winning entomologist and conservationist explains the importance of insects to our survival, and offers a clarion call to avoid a looming ecological disaster of our own making.
Drawing on thirty years of research, Goulson has written an accessible, fascinating, and important book that examines the evidence of an alarming drop in insect numbers around the world. “If we lose the insects, then everything is going to collapse,” he warned in a recent interview in the New York Times–beginning with humans’ food supply. The main cause of this decrease in insect populations is the indiscriminate use of chemical pesticides. Hence, Silent Earth‘s nod to Rachel Carson’s classic Silent Spring which, when published in 1962, led to the global banning of DDT. This was a huge victory for science and ecological health at the time.
Yet before long, new pesticides just as lethal as DDT were introduced, and today, humanity finds itself on the brink of a new crisis. What will happen when the bugs are all gone? Goulson explores the intrinsic connection between climate change, nature, wildlife, and the shrinking biodiversity and analyzes the harmful impact for the earth and its inhabitants.
Meanwhile we have all read stories about hive collapse syndrome affecting honeybee colonies and the tragic decline of monarch butterflies in North America, and more. But it is not too late to arrest this decline, and Silent Earth should be the clarion call. Smart, eye-opening, and essential, Silent Earth is a forceful call to action to save our world, and ultimately, ourselves.
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Darwin’s Doubt
- By: Stephen C. Meyer
- Narrator: Derek Shetterly
- Length: 14 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: December 20, 2016
- Language: English
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4.15(891 ratings)
4.15(891 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDWhen Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did notWhen Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the “Cambrian explosion,” many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock.
In Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal life–a mystery that has intensified, not only because the expected ancestors of these animals have not been found, but because scientists have learned more about what it takes to construct an animal. During the last half century, biologists have come to appreciate the central importance of biological information–stored in DNA and elsewhere in cells–to building animal forms.
Expanding on the compelling case he presented in his last book, Signature in the Cell, Meyer argues that the origin of this information, as well as other mysterious features of the Cambrian event, are best explained by intelligent design, rather than purely undirected evolutionary processes.
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Darwin Devolves
- By: Michael J. Behe
- Narrator: Timothy Andres Pabon
- Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 26, 2019
- Language: English
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4.07(222 ratings)
4.07(222 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDThe scientist who has been dubbed the “Father of Intelligent Design” and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for anThe scientist who has been dubbed the “Father of Intelligent Design” and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for an intelligent creator.
In his controversial bestseller Darwin’s Black Box, biochemist Michael Behe challenged Darwin’s theory of evolution, arguing that science itself has proven that intelligent design is a better explanation for the origin of life. In Darwin Devolves, Behe advances his argument, presenting new research that offers a startling reconsideration of how Darwin’s mechanism works, weakening the theory’s validity even more.
A system of natural selection acting on random mutation, evolution can help make something look and act differently. But evolution never creates something organically. Behe contends that Darwinism actually works by a process of devolution–damaging cells in DNA in order to create something new at the lowest biological levels. This is important, he makes clear, because it shows the Darwinian process cannot explain the creation of life itself. “A process that so easily tears down sophisticated machinery is not one which will build complex, functional systems,” he writes.
In addition to disputing the methodology of Darwinism and how it conflicts with the concept of creation, Behe reveals that what makes Intelligent Design unique–and right–is that it acknowledges causation. Evolution proposes that organisms living today are descended with modification from organisms that lived in the distant past. But Intelligent Design goes a step further asking, what caused such astounding changes to take place? What is the reason or mechanism for evolution? For Behe, this is what makes Intelligent Design so important.
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The Violinist’s Thumb
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrator: Henry Leyva
- Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 17, 2012
- Language: English
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4(7749 ratings)
4(7749 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA. In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In TheFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA.... Read moreIn The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In The Violinist’s Thumb, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of life: DNA.
There are genes to explain crazy cat ladies, why other people have no fingerprints, and why some people survive nuclear bombs. Genes illuminate everything from JFK’s bronze skin (it wasn’t a tan) to Einstein’s genius. They prove that Neanderthals and humans bred thousands of years more recently than any of us would feel comfortable thinking. They can even allow some people, because of the exceptional flexibility of their thumbs and fingers, to become truly singular violinists.
Kean’s vibrant storytelling once again makes science entertaining, explaining human history and whimsy while showing how DNA will influence our species’ future.
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A Brief History of Creation
- By: Bill Mesler
- Narrator: Sean Runnette
- Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4(239 ratings)
4(239 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDHow did life begin? It is perhaps the most important question science has ever asked. Over the centuries, the search for an answer has been entwined with some of science’s most revolutionary advances, including van Leeuwenhoek’sHow did life begin?
It is perhaps the most important question science has ever asked. Over the centuries, the search for an answer has been entwined with some of science’s most revolutionary advances, including van Leeuwenhoek’s microscope, Darwin’s theory of evolution, and Crick and Watson’s unveiling of DNA. Now, in an age of genetic engineering and space exploration, some scientists believe they are on the verge of creating life from nonliving elements and that our knowledge of the potential for life on other planets is ever-expanding. In the midst of these exciting developments, A Brief History of Creation provides an essential and illuminating history of Western science, tracing the trials and triumphs of the iconoclastic scientists who have sought to uncover the mystery of how life first came to be.
Authors Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II examine historical discoveries in the context of philosophical debates, political change, and our evolving understanding of the complexity of biology. The story they tell is rooted in metaphysical arguments, in a changing understanding of the age of the earth, and even in the politics of the Cold War. It has involved exploration into the inner recesses of our cells and scientific journeys to the farthest reaches of outer space. This elegantly written narrative culminates in an analysis of modern models for life’s genesis, such as the possibility that some of the earliest life was composed of little more than RNA, and that life arose around deep-sea hydrothermal vents or even on other planets, only to be carried to the earth on meteorites.
Can we ever conclusively prove how life began? A Brief History of Creation is a fascinating exploration not only of the origin-of-life question but of the very nature of scientific objectivity and the process of scientific discovery.
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In Search of the Canary Tree
- By: Lauren E. Oakes
- Narrator: Ellen Archer
- Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 27, 2018
- Language: English
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3.98(433 ratings)
3.98(433 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThe award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman’s search for resiliency in a warming world Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska’s old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: theThe award-winning and surprisingly hopeful story of one woman’s search for resiliency in a warming world
Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska’s old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants and people could cope with their rapidly changing world. Amidst the standing dead, she discovered the resiliency of forgotten forests, flourishing again in the wake of destruction, and a diverse community of people who persevered to create new relationships with the emerging environment. Eloquent, insightful, and deeply heartening, In Search of the Canary Tree is a case for hope in a warming world.
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The Equations of Life
- By: Charles S. Cockell
- Narrator: Ian Porter
- Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: June 19, 2018
- Language: English
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3.94(281 ratings)
3.94(281 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWe are all familiar with the popular idea that strange alien life is wildly different from life on Earth. Maybe it’s made of silicon! Maybe it has wheels! Or maybe it doesn’t. In The Equations of Life, biologist Charles S. Cockell makesWe are all familiar with the popular idea that strange alien life is wildly different from life on Earth. Maybe it’s made of silicon! Maybe it has wheels! Or maybe it doesn’t. In The Equations of Life, biologist Charles S. Cockell makes the forceful argument that the laws of physics narrowly constrain how life can evolve, making evolution’s outcomes predictable. If we were to find something very much like a lady bug eating something very much like an aphid on a distant planet, we shouldn’t be surprised. The forms of life are guided by a limited set of rules, and, as a result, there is a narrow set of solutions to the challenges of existence. A remarkable scientific contribution breathing new life into Darwin’s theory of evolution, The Equations of Life makes a radical argument about what life can-and can’t-be.
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How the Mind Changed
- By: Joseph Jebelli
- Narrator: Joe Eyre
- Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 12, 2022
- Language: English
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3.93(61 ratings)
3.93(61 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDThe extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved… and is still evolving. We’ve come a long way. The earliest human had a brain as small as a child’s fist; ours are four times bigger, with spectacular abilities and potentialThe extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved… and is still evolving.
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We’ve come a long way. The earliest human had a brain as small as a child’s fist; ours are four times bigger, with spectacular abilities and potential we are only just beginning to understand.
This is How the Mind Changed, a seven-million-year journey through our own heads, packed with vivid stories, groundbreaking science, and thrilling surprises. Discover how memory has almost nothing to do with the past; meditation rewires our synapses; magic mushroom use might be responsible for our intelligence; climate accounts for linguistic diversity; and how autism teaches us hugely positive lessons about our past and future.
Dr. Joseph Jebelli’s In Pursuit of Memory was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and longlisted for the Wellcome. In this, his eagerly awaited second book, he draws on deep insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, and philosophy to guide us through the unexpected changes that shaped our brains. From genetic accidents and environmental forces to historical and cultural advances, he explores how our brain’s evolution turned us into Homo sapiens and beyond.
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Creating Humans
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrator: Alexander McCall Smith
- Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 12, 2008
- Language: English
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3.9(22 ratings)
3.9(22 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDIn this course, we will discuss the various moral aspects of human reproduction from methods of conception to methods of ending a pregnancy. We will discuss the moral, cultural, legal, and political influences on reproduction as well as theIn this course, we will discuss the various moral aspects of human reproduction from methods of conception to methods of ending a pregnancy. We will discuss the moral, cultural, legal, and political influences on reproduction as well as the scientific advances in reproductive technology.
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Tree Thieves
- By: Lyndsie Bourgon
- Narrator: Hayden Bishop
- Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 21, 2022
- Language: English
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3.79(410 ratings)
3.79(410 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDA gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market–and how it intersects with environmentalism, class, and culture.In Tree Thieves, Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the illegal timber market. As she traces threeA gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market–and how it intersects with environmentalism, class, and culture.
In Tree Thieves, Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the illegal timber market. As she traces three timber poaching cases, she introduces us to tree poachers, law enforcement, forensic wood specialists, the enigmatic residents of former logging communities, environmental activists, international timber cartels, and indigenous communities along the way.
Old-growth trees are invaluable and irreplaceable for both humans and wildlife, and are the oldest living things on earth. But the morality of tree poaching is not as simple as we might think: stealing trees is a form of deeply rooted protest, and a side effect of environmental preservation and protection that doesn’t include communities that have been uprooted or marginalized when park boundaries are drawn. As Bourgon discovers, failing to include working class and rural communities in the preservation of these awe-inducing ecosystems can lead to catastrophic results.
Featuring excellent investigative reporting, fascinating characters, logging history, political analysis, and cutting-edge tree science, Tree Thieves takes readers on a thrilling journey into the intrigue, crime, and incredible complexity sheltered under the forest canopy.
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The Hunt for FOXP5
- By: Wallace Kaufman
- Narrator: Nancy Wu
- Length: 13 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.74(29 ratings)
3.74(29 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDGenetics professor Michelle Murphy loses her husband under mysterious circumstances and without warning, while their brilliant eight-year-old daughter Avalon, adopted in Kazakhstan, stubbornly believes she is a mutant. As if this were not enough sheGenetics professor Michelle Murphy loses her husband under mysterious circumstances and without warning, while their brilliant eight-year-old daughter Avalon, adopted in Kazakhstan, stubbornly believes she is a mutant.
As if this were not enough she soon finds herself thrown into the middle of a quickly thickening plot, where the legacy of Genghis Khan meets the hunt for FOXP5, a genetic transcription factor that could herald the dawn of new human species.
Initially caught helplessly between well-meaning fellow scientists, the government, and more sinister agents, Michelle, with the help of a host of unlikely heroes, eventually takes control and finds the courage to confront the decision of whether to save human lives or humanity.
The scientific and technical aspects underlying the plot–in particular aspects of FOX proteins, genetic mutations, viruses, and cancer, as well as the relation between intelligence and cortical complexity–are introduced and discussed by the authors in an extensive nontechnical appendix.
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Nano Comes to Life
- By: Sonia Contera
- Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 05, 2019
- Language: English
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3.74(37 ratings)
3.74(37 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThe nanotechnology revolution that will transform human health and longevity Nano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale?the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet?and introducesThe nanotechnology revolution that will transform human health and longevity Nano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale?the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet?and introduces readers to the rapidly evolving nanotechnologies that are allowing us to manipulate the very building blocks of life. Sonia Contera gives an insider’s perspective on this new frontier, revealing how nanotechnology enables a new kind of multidisciplinary science that is poised to give us control over our own biology, our health, and our lives. Drawing on her perspective as one of today’s leading researchers in the field, Contera describes the exciting ways in which nanotechnology makes it possible to understand, interact with, and manipulate biology?such as by designing and building artificial structures and even machines at the nanoscale using DNA, proteins, and other biological molecules as materials. In turn, nanotechnology is revolutionizing medicine in ways that will have profound effects on our health and longevity, from nanoscale machines that can target individual cancer cells and deliver drugs more effectively, to nanoantibiotics that can fight resistant bacteria, to the engineering of tissues and organs for research, drug discovery, and transplantation. The future will bring about the continued fusion of nanotechnology with biology, physics, medicine, and cutting-edge fields like robotics and artificial intelligence, ushering us into a new “transmaterial era.” As we contemplate the power, advantages, and risks of accessing and manipulating our own biology, Contera offers insight and hope that we may all share in the benefits of this revolutionary research.
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Biopunk
- By: Marcus Wohlsen
- Narrator: Richard Powers
- Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.63(439 ratings)
3.63(439 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDBill Gates told Wired that if he were a teenager today, he would be hacking biology. “If you want to change the world in some big way,” he says, “that’s where you should start–biological molecules.” The mostBill Gates told Wired that if he were a teenager today, he would be hacking biology. “If you want to change the world in some big way,” he says, “that’s where you should start–biological molecules.”
The most disruptive force on the planet resides in DNA. Biotech companies and academic researchers are just beginning to unlock the potential of piecing together life from scratch. Champions of synthetic biology believe that turning genetic code into Lego-like blocks to build never-before-seen organisms could solve the thorniest challenges in medicine, energy, and environmental protection. But as the hackers who cracked open the potential of the personal computer and the Internet proved, the most revolutionary discoveries often emerge from out-of-the-way places, forged by brilliant outsiders with few resources besides boundless energy and great ideas.
In Biopunk, Marcus Wohlsen chronicles a growing community of DIY scientists working outside the walls of corporations and universities who are committed to democratizing DNA the way the Internet did information. The “biohacking” movement, now in its early, heady days, aims to unleash an outbreak of genetically modified innovation by making the tools and techniques of biotechnology accessible to everyone. Borrowing their idealism from the worlds of open-source software, artisinal food, Internet startups, and the Peace Corps, biopunks are devoted advocates for open-sourcing the basic code of life. They believe in the power of individuals with access to DNA to solve the world’s biggest problems.
You’ll meet a new breed of hackers who aren’t afraid to get their hands wet, from entrepreneurs who aim to bring DNA-based medical tools to the poorest of the poor to a curious tinkerer who believes a tub of yogurt and a jellyfish gene could protect the world’s food supply. These biohackers include:
A duo who started a cancer drug company in their kitchen A team who built an open-source DNA copy machine A woman who developed a genetic test in her apartment for a deadly disease that had stricken her family
Along with the potential of citizen science to bring about disruptive change, Wohlsen explores the risks of DIY bioterrorism, the possibility of genetic engineering experiments gone awry, and whether the ability to design life from scratch on a laptop might come sooner than we think.
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Saved by Science
- By: Mark J. Poznansky, PhD
- Narrator: Jim Seybert
- Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 22, 2020
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDHow can we accelerate the development of vaccines? How do we feed three billion people when twelve million died of hunger in 2019? Does synthetic biology hold the answer? With all the advances in science in the last century, why are there still soHow can we accelerate the development of vaccines? How do we feed three billion people when twelve million died of hunger in 2019? Does synthetic biology hold the answer? With all the advances in science in the last century, why are there still so many infectious diseases? Why haven’t we found cures for difficult cancers? Why hasn’t any major progress been made in the treatment of mental illness? And how do we intend to stop, and not only that but reverse, global warming and the climate crisis? In Saved by Science, scientist Mark Poznansky examines the many crises facing humanity while encouraging us with the promise of an emerging solution: synthetic biology. This is the science of building simple organisms, or “biological apps,” to make manufacturing greener energy production more sustainable, agriculture more robust, and medicine more powerful and precise. Synthetic biology is the marriage of the digital revolution with a revolution in biology and genomics; some have even called it “the fourth industrial revolution.”
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El Ultimo abrazo (Mama’s Last hug)
- By: Frans de Waal
- Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: October 19, 2021
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDEste libro comienza narrando el ultimo encuentro entre Mama, una hembra de chimpance moribunda, y su cuidador. La escena, en la que Mama intenta sonreir mientras se abraza a la persona que se ocupo de ella durante anos fue filmada y ha emocionado aEste libro comienza narrando el ultimo encuentro entre Mama, una hembra de chimpance moribunda, y su cuidador. La escena, en la que Mama intenta sonreir mientras se abraza a la persona que se ocupo de ella durante anos fue filmada y ha emocionado a millones de personas a traves de la red. Al hilo de este episodio, De Waal habla del significado de las expresiones faciales, las emociones ocultas tras la politica humana o la ilusion de la libertad. Esta obra describe las multiples maneras en que los humanos y el resto de animales estamos intimamente conectados y nos muestra que los humanos no somos la unica
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Comportate (Behave)
- By: Robert M. Sapolsky
- Length: 45 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: October 19, 2021
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0039.99 USDUn examen minucioso del comportamiento humano y una respuesta a la pregunta: ?por que hacemos las cosas que hacemos? Sapolsky analiza los factores en juego, desde el momento previo hasta los factores arraigados en la historia de nuestra especie y suUn examen minucioso del comportamiento humano y una respuesta a la pregunta: ?por que hacemos las cosas que hacemos? Sapolsky analiza los factores en juego, desde el momento previo hasta los factores arraigados en la historia de nuestra especie y su legado evolutivo. Partiendo de una explicacion neurobiologica –?que sucedio en el cerebro de una persona un segundo antes de que se comportara asi?, ?que vision, sonido u olor hicieron que el sistema nervioso produjera ese comportamiento?–, pasamos a pensar en el mundo sensorial y la endocrinologia: ?como fue influenciado ese comportamiento por cambios estructurales en el sistema nervioso durante los meses anteriores, por la adolescencia, la infancia y la vida fetal de esa persona, e incluso por su composicion genetica? Y, mas alla del individuo, ?como dio forma la cultura al grupo de ese individuo, que factores ecologicos milenarios formaron esa cultura? El resultado es uno de los recorridos mas deslumbrantes de la ciencia del comportamiento humano jamas propuestos, que puede responder a muchas preguntas profundas y espinosas sobre el tribalismo y la xenofobia, la jerarquia, la competencia, la moral y el libre albedrio, la guerra y la paz.
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