19 Best Evolution, Science Books
Evolution, Science is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Evolution, Science audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 19 Evolution, Science audiobooks below.
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Behold the Mighty Dinosaur
- By: John Kricher
- Narrator: John Kricher
- Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 12, 2008
- Language: English
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4.18(98 ratings)
4.18(98 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDDinosaurs-the word means “fearfully great reptile”-have been a source of fascination ever since their discovery in England early in the nineteenth century. Aside from birds, all dinosaurs have been extinct for 65 million years, yet,Dinosaurs-the word means “fearfully great reptile”-have been a source of fascination ever since their discovery in England early in the nineteenth century. Aside from birds, all dinosaurs have been extinct for 65 million years, yet, before then, they dominated Earth’s terrestrial habitats for about 160 million years, far longer than primates, or humans, have been around. Dinosaurs present the ultimate puzzle in forensic science, but we have learned a great deal about them, especially in the last fifty years. Our view of dinosaurs has changed radically, and the evolution and biology of dinosaurs has become a popular topic in college curriculums. This lecture series will explain how this changing view of dinosaurs developed, the evolutionary and ecological relationships among dinosaurs, what it might have been like to be present in the Mesozoic Era during the time of the dinosaurs, and the question of what ultimately brought about the total extinction of all of the non-bird dinosaurs and the end of the Cretaceous Period. Although extinct, dinosaurs have never been more a focus of science than they are today.
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The Greatest Show on Earth
- By: Richard Dawkins
- Narrator: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 14 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.16(47593 ratings)
4.16(47593 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.95 USDRichard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold millions of copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches aRichard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold millions of copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of “Intelligent Design” in his New York Times bestseller, The Greatest Show on Earth.
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“Intelligent Design” is being taught in our schools; educators are being asked to “teach the controversy” behind evolutionary theory. There is no controversy. Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence‚Äîfrom living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics‚Äîto make the airtight case that “we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection.” His unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument, exposing the absurdities of the creationist position, into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master‚Äôs vision of life, in all its splendor. -
The Secret Perfume of Birds
- By: Danielle J. Whittaker
- Narrator: Ann Richardson
- Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.09(48 ratings)
4.09(48 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe untold story of a stunning discovery: not only can birds smell, but their scents may be the secret to understanding their world. The puzzling lack of evidence for the peculiar but widespread belief that birds have no sense of smell irkedThe untold story of a stunning discovery: not only can birds smell, but their scents may be the secret to understanding their world.
The puzzling lack of evidence for the peculiar but widespread belief that birds have no sense of smell irked evolutionary biologist Danielle Whittaker. Exploring the science behind the myth led her on an unexpected quest investigating mysteries from how juncos win a fight to why cowbirds smell like cookies. In The Secret Perfume of Birds–part science, part intellectual history, and part memoir–Whittaker blends humor, clear writing, and a compelling narrative to describe how scent is important not just for birds but for all animals, including humans.
Whittaker engagingly describes how emerging research has uncovered bird’s ability to produce complex chemical signals that influence their behavior, including where they build nests, when they pick a fight, and why they fly away. Mate choice, or sexual selection–a still enigmatic aspect of many animal’s lives–appears to be particularly influenced by smell. Whittaker’s pioneering studies suggest that bird’s sexy–and scary–signals are produced by symbiotic bacteria that manufacture scents in the oil that birds stroke on their feathers when preening. From tangerine-scented auklets to her beloved juncos, redolent of moss, birds from across the world feature in Whittaker’s stories, but she also examines the smelly chemicals of all kinds of creatures, from iguanas and bees to monkeys and humans.
Listeners will enjoy a rare opportunity to witness the twisting roads scientific research can take, especially the challenging, hilarious, and occasionally dangerous realities of ornithology in the wild. The Secret Perfume of Birds will interest anyone looking to learn more about birds, about how animals and humans use our senses, and about why it can sometimes take a rebel scientist to change what we think we know for sure about the world–and ourselves.
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Darwin Comes to Town
- By: Menno Schilthuizen
- Narrator: Chris Nayak
- Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 20, 2018
- Language: English
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4.08(1011 ratings)
4.08(1011 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDDarwin Comes to Town draws on eye-popping examples of adaptation to share a stunning vision of urban evolution in which humans and wildlife co-exist in a unique harmony. *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passingDarwin Comes to Town draws on eye-popping examples of adaptation to share a stunning vision of urban evolution in which humans and wildlife co-exist in a unique harmony.
*Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts.*Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete.
*Europe’s urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heard over the din of traffic.
How is this happening?
Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of “urban ecologists” studying how our manmade environments are accelerating and changing the evolution of the animals and plants around us. In Darwin Comes to Town, he takes us around the world for an up-close look at just how stunningly flexible and swift-moving natural selection can be.
With human populations growing, we’re having an increasing impact on global ecosystems, and nowhere do these impacts overlap as much as they do in cities. The urban environment is about as extreme as it gets, and the wild animals and plants that live side-by-side with us need to adapt to a whole suite of challenging conditions: they must manage in the city’s hotter climate (the “urban heat island”); they need to be able to live either in the semidesert of the tall, rocky, and cavernous structures we call buildings or in the pocket-like oases of city parks (which pose their own dangers, including smog and free-ranging dogs and cats); traffic causes continuous noise, a mist of fine dust particles, and barriers to movement for any animal that cannot fly or burrow; food sources are mainly human-derived. And yet, as Schilthuizen shows, the wildlife sharing these spaces with us is not just surviving, but evolving ways of thriving.
This audiobook reveals that evolution can happen far more rapidly than Darwin dreamed, while providing a glimmer of hope that our race toward over population might not take the rest of nature down with us.
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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)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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The Tangled Tree
- By: David Quammen
- Narrator: Jacques Roy
- Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.97(3052 ratings)
3.97(3052 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDIn this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology affect ourIn this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology affect our understanding of evolution and life’s history.
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In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field–the study of life’s diversity and relatedness at the molecular level–is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the movement of genes across species lines. It turns out that HGT has been widespread and important; we now know that roughly eight percent of the human genome arrived sideways by viral infection–a type of HGT.
In The Tangled Tree, “the grandest tale in biology….David Quammen presents the science–and the scientists involved–with patience, candor, and flair” (Nature). We learn about the major players, such as Carl Woese, the most important little-known biologist of the twentieth century; Lynn Margulis, the notorious maverick whose wild ideas about “mosaic” creatures proved to be true; and Tsutomu Wantanabe, who discovered that the scourge of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a direct result of horizontal gene transfer, bringing the deep study of genome histories to bear on a global crisis in public health.
“David Quammen proves to be an immensely well-informed guide to a complex story” (The Wall Street Journal). In The Tangled Tree, he explains how molecular studies of evolution have brought startling recognitions about the tangled tree of life–including where we humans fit upon it. Thanks to new technologies, we now have the ability to alter even our genetic composition–through sideways insertions, as nature has long been doing. “The Tangled Tree is a source of wonder….Quammen has written a deep and daring intellectual adventure” (The Boston Globe). -
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
- By: Riley Black
- Narrator: Christina Delaine
- Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: April 26, 2022
- Language: English
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3.96(1197 ratings)
3.96(1197 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDIn The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks listeners through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining whatIn The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks listeners through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life’s losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the stage for the world as we know it now.
Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It’s a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away. Lush verdure will be replaced with fire. Tyrannosaurus rex will be toppled from their throne, along with every other species of non-avian dinosaur no matter their size, diet, or disposition. They just don’t know it yet.
The cause of this disaster was identified decades ago. An asteroid some seven miles across slammed into the Earth, leaving a geologic wound over 50 miles in diameter. In the terrible mass extinction that followed, more than half of known species vanished seemingly overnight. But this worst single day in the history of life on Earth was as critical for us as it was for the dinosaurs, as it allowed for evolutionary opportunities that were closed for the previous 100 million years.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press
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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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Fatal Flaws
- By: Hank Hanegraaff
- Narrator: Hank Hanegraaff
- Length: 2 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: January 21, 2012
- Language: English
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3.84(70 ratings)
3.84(70 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDMaterials drawn from The Face That Demonstrates The Farce of Evolution (ISBN 0-8499-4272-1) Today’s generation is bombarded with theories about humankind and its origins. The danger for Christians lies in the wealth of misinformation andMaterials drawn from The Face That Demonstrates The Farce of Evolution (ISBN 0-8499-4272-1) Today’s generation is bombarded with theories about humankind and its origins. The danger for Christians lies in the wealth of misinformation and miscommunication about simple biblical truths such as: (1) How and when the world began, (2) Whether humans are unique or merely a happenstance of evolution, (3) The distinction between humankind and other living creatures, (4) The evolution of life on this planet, and (5) The spiritual dimensions of the human soul. Hank Hanegraff keeps Christians from falling prey to corrupting scientific speculation about the origins of life and reminds us that we are God’s creation. This common sense approach puts the concept of evolution in the grasp of everyday Christians and reminds us that ultimately the key to our purpose in this life comes from understanding whose we are and who created us.
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The Human Instinct
- By: Kenneth R. Miller
- Narrator: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.81(241 ratings)
3.81(241 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFrom one of America’s best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows “why, in light of our origins, humans are still special” (Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofFrom one of America’s best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows “why, in light of our origins, humans are still special” (Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evolution).
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Once we had a special place in the hierarchy of life on Earth–a place confirmed by the literature and traditions of every human tribe. But then the theory of evolution arrived to shake the tree of human understanding to its roots. To many of the most passionate advocates for Darwin’s theory, we are just one species among multitudes, no more significant than any other. Even our minds are not our own, they tell us, but living machines programmed for nothing but survival and reproduction.
In The Human Instinct, Brown University biologist Kenneth R. Miller “confronts both lay and professional misconceptions about evolution” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), showing that while evolution explains how our bodies and brains were shaped, that heritage does not limit or predetermine human behavior. In fact, Miller argues in this “highly recommended” (Forbes) work that it is only thanks to evolution that we have the power to shape our destiny.
Equal parts natural science and philosophy, The Human Instinct makes an “absorbing, lucid, and engaging…case that it was evolution that gave us our humanity” (Ursula Goodenough, professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis). -
Origin
- By: Jennifer Raff
- Narrator: Tanis Parenteau
- Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 08, 2022
- Language: English
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3.8(1413 ratings)
3.8(1413 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDFrom celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story–and fascinating mystery–of how humans migrated to the Americas.ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, howFrom celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story–and fascinating mystery–of how humans migrated to the Americas.
ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete genomes. ORIGIN provides an overview of these new histories throughout North and South America, and a glimpse into how the tools of genetics reveal details about human history and evolution.
20,000 years ago, people crossed a great land bridge from Siberia into Western Alaska and then dispersed southward into what is now called the Americas. Until we venture out to other worlds, this remains the last time our species has populated an entirely new place, and this event has been a subject of deep fascination and controversy. No written records–and scant archaeological evidence–exist to tell us what happened or how it took place. Many different models have been proposed to explain how the Americas were peopled and what happened in the thousands of years that followed.A study of both past and present, ORIGIN explores how genetics is currently being used to construct narratives that profoundly impact Indigenous peoples of the Americas. It serves as a primer for anyone interested in how genetics has become entangled with identity in the way that society addresses the question “Who is indigenous?”... Read more -
Cosmosapiens
- By: John Hands
- Narrator: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 31 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.73(284 ratings)
3.73(284 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThe book that transforms our understanding of what we are and where we came from. Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to playThe book that transforms our understanding of what we are and where we came from.
Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?
John Hands’ extraordinarily ambitious quest is to bring together this scientific knowledge and evaluate without bias or preconception all the theories and evidence about the origin and evolution of matter, life, consciousness, and humankind.
This astonishing book provides the most comprehensive account yet of current ideas such as cosmic inflation, dark energy, the selfish gene, and neurogenetic determinism. In the clearest possible prose it differentiates the firmly established from the speculative and examines the claims of various fields such as string theory to approach a unified theory of everything. In doing so it challenges the orthodox consensus in those branches of cosmology, biology, and neuroscience that have ossified into dogma.
Its striking analysis reveals underlying patterns of cooperation, complexification, and convergence that lead to the unique emergence in humans of a self-reflective consciousness that enables us to determine our future evolution.
This groundbreaking book is destined to become a classic of scientific thinking.
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Good Enough
- By: Daniel S. Milo
- Narrator: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: June 18, 2019
- Language: English
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3.68(95 ratings)
3.68(95 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWhy is the genome of a salamander forty times larger than that of a human? Why does the avocado tree produce a million flowers and only a hundred fruits? Why, in short, is there so much waste in nature? In this lively and wide-ranging meditation onWhy is the genome of a salamander forty times larger than that of a human? Why does the avocado tree produce a million flowers and only a hundred fruits? Why, in short, is there so much waste in nature? In this lively and wide-ranging meditation on the curious accidents and unexpected detours on the path of life, Daniel Milo argues that we ask these questions because we’ve embraced a faulty conception of how evolution?and human society?really works. Good Enough offers a vigorous critique of the quasi-monopoly that Darwin’s concept of natural selection has on our idea of the natural world. Darwinism excels in accounting for the evolution of traits, but it does not explain their excess in size and number. Many traits far exceed the optimal configuration to do the job, and yet the maintenance of this extra baggage does not prevent species from thriving for millions of years. Philosopher Daniel Milo aims to give the messy side of nature its due?to stand up for the wasteful and inefficient organisms that nevertheless survive and multiply. But he does not stop at the border between evolutionary theory and its social consequences. He argues provocatively that the theory of evolution through natural selection has acquired the trappings of an ethical system. Optimization, competitiveness, and innovation have become the watchwords of Western societies, yet their role in human lives?as in the rest of nature?is dangerously overrated. Imperfection is not just good enough: it may at times be essential to survival.
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Wild Sex
- By: Carin Bondar
- Narrator: Erin Bennett
- Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.6(164 ratings)
3.6(164 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA brilliantly engaging guide to the reproductive habits of creatures great and small, based on the author’s popular web series Wild Sex, which has received over fourteen million views Birds do it, bees do it–every member of the animalA brilliantly engaging guide to the reproductive habits of creatures great and small, based on the author’s popular web series Wild Sex, which has received over fourteen million views
Birds do it, bees do it–every member of the animal kingdom does it, from fruit flies to blue whales. But if you think humans have a tough time dating, try having to do it while being hunted down by predators against a backdrop of unpredictable and life-threatening conditions. The animal kingdom is a wild place–and it’s got mating habits to match. The sex lives of our animal cousins are fiendishly difficult, infinitely varied, often incredibly violent–and absolutely fascinating.
In Wild Sex, Dr. Carin Bondar takes listeners on an enthralling tour of the animal kingdom as she explores the diverse world of sex in the wild. She looks at the evolution of sexual organs (and how they’ve shaped social hierarchies), tactics of seduction, and the mechanics of sex. She investigates a wide range of topics, from whether animals experience pleasure from sex to what happens when females hold the reproductive power. Along the way, she encounters razor-sharp penises, murderous carnal cannibals, and spontaneous chemical warfare in an epic battle between the sexes.
The resulting book is titillating, exhilarating, amusing, petrifying, alluring–and absolutely guaranteed to make you think about sex in a whole new way.
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Darwin and Evolution
- By: Michael Ghiselin
- Narrator: Edwin Newman
- Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.14(49 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.95 USDIn 1859, Charles Darwin published a vastly important work: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. For centuries, man had been seen as a created species, distinct from any other animal. Then, Darwin persuasively argued that mankindIn 1859, Charles Darwin published a vastly important work: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. For centuries, man had been seen as a created species, distinct from any other animal. Then, Darwin persuasively argued that mankind and other species are descended from common ancestors. His theory of “natural selection,” also known as “survival of the fittest,” explains how life evolved through natural processes. By the 1950s, most scientists accepted the theory. However, it upset many who believed that life was created by a supernatural God—a debate which is perpetuated today.
The Science and Discovery Series recreates one of history’s most successful journeys—four thousand years of scientific efforts to better understand and control the physical world. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisdom or accepted practices; this is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress. Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, and many others are featured.
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The Future of Humankind
- By: John Hands
- Narrator: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThis is the sequel to the award-winning Cosmosapiens, named Book of the Year by the UK’s Times Literary Supplement and One of the Best Science Books of 2015 by The Telegraph. In his acclaimed Cosmosapiens, renowned scientist John Hands lookedThis is the sequel to the award-winning Cosmosapiens, named Book of the Year by the UK’s Times Literary Supplement and One of the Best Science Books of 2015 by The Telegraph.
In his acclaimed Cosmosapiens, renowned scientist John Hands looked back on how we humans evolved from the origin of the universe to the present day. Building on that work, The Future of Humankind: Why We Should Be Optimistic looks ahead to our ultimate destiny.
Listeners embark on a fascinating journey in which Hands evaluates current major predictions for our future in three categories–extinction, survival, and transformation–before making his own unique and astonishing forecast.
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Por que creemos en cosas raras (Why People Believe Weird Things)
- By: Michael Shermer
- Length: 17 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: October 19, 2021
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDLas ideas mas peregrinas tienen hoy que adoptar una vestidura para obtener credibilidad. No son ahora extranas las de abducciones extraterrestres o de poderes telepaticos o los que respaldan que el Holocausto nunca ocurrio. Schermer se interna enLas ideas mas peregrinas tienen hoy que adoptar una vestidura <
... Read more> para obtener credibilidad. No son ahora extranas las < > de abducciones extraterrestres o de poderes telepaticos o los < > que respaldan que el Holocausto nunca ocurrio. Schermer se interna en ese mundo de profetas y visionarios, fundamentalistas religiosos e < > racistas, y nos ofrece un analisis de sus credos y metodos, que desmonta pieza a pieza, aplicando nada mas que el pensamiento cientifico. -
Memorias de un primate (A Primate’s Memoir)
- By: Robert M. Sapolsky
- Length: 19 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: October 19, 2021
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDEn la tradicion de Jane Goodall y Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, uno de los divulgadores cientificos mas reconocidos en la actualidad, cuenta la fascinante historia de como dejo las comodidades de la universidad para compartir durante mas de dosEn la tradicion de Jane Goodall y Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, uno de los divulgadores cientificos mas reconocidos en la actualidad, cuenta la fascinante historia de como dejo las comodidades de la universidad para compartir durante mas de dos decadas su trabajo de campo con una tropa de traviesos babuinos en la sabana africana. Solo un joven idealista podia aterrizar en el corazon de Kenia esperando encontrar ahi una version animada de lo que habia visto y estudiado hasta entonces en el Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Nueva York.
Memorias de un primate combina serias observaciones cientificas con comentarios ironicos sobre los desafios y placeres de la vida en la selva del Serengueti. Sapolsky sobrevive a atrocidades culinarias y surrealistas encuentros a punta de pistola, mientras da buena cuenta de la invasion de la mentalidad turistica en los vestigios mas remotos del Africa virgen.
Durante su investigacion sobre las alteraciones en el sistema nervioso de los primates enfrentados a situaciones de estres, se enamora perdidamente de estos animales, a primera vista agresivos y bastante antipaticos, y regresa a ellos verano tras verano. Aislado en la sabana, sin luz y sin agua, pero con el humor y la curiosidad siempre bien dispuestos, Sapolsky se convierte en un agudo observador de la fauna animal y humana del lugar.
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Do Elephants Have Knees? and Other Stories of Darwinian Origins
- By: Charles R. Ault
- Narrator: Richard Powers
- Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDWhat makes a penguin a bird? Is a camel more closely related to a horse than to a giraffe? Why is a whale not a fish? Similar puzzles preoccupied Charles Darwin throughout his life. Whimsy, in the playfulness of stories for children, is a way toWhat makes a penguin a bird? Is a camel more closely related to a horse than to a giraffe? Why is a whale not a fish? Similar puzzles preoccupied Charles Darwin throughout his life. Whimsy, in the playfulness of stories for children, is a way to appreciate Darwinian histories.
In Do Elephants Have Knees? Charles R. Ault Jr. uses the fanciful imagery of story to explain Darwinian thought. At the same time, he launches careful consideration of Darwin’s humanity, the origins of his curiosity, and the reach of his ideas.
Ault’s approach illustrates the value of story form in learning science and provides a wealth of resources for enriching courses that focus on Darwin’s ideas. “Good storytelling mines curiosity,” Ault writes, “and exuberant playfulness enriches a disciplined study of science.”
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