Social Evolution

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    • How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
    • By: Joseph Henrich
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies....

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    • The Evolution of Minds
    • By: Daniel C. Dennett
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists....

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    • Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Jamie Metzl
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives-sex, war, love, and death....

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    • The Science of Beauty
    • By: Nancy Etcoff
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 19-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argues that beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminism - it's in our biology....

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    • Why We Tell Stories
    • By: Christopher Booker
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of "basic stories" in the world....

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    • On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
    • By: Armand Marie Leroi
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-19
    • Language: English
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    • Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it....

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    • How Science Is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
    • By: Tom Higham
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Fifty thousand years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham....

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    • Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
    • By: Donald Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally....

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    • Warum wir Frieden wollen, aber Kriege führen - Eine Menschheitsgeschichte
    • By: Kai Michel, Harald Meller, Carel van Schaik
    • Narrated by: Olaf Pessler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-24
    • Language: German
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    • Wer hätte sich vor wenigen Jahren vorstellen können, dass Krieg wieder zu einer zentralen Bedrohung unserer Welt werden könnte? Was bringt Menschen ...

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    • Evolution and the Meanings of Life
    • By: Daniel C. Dennett
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 27 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection....

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    • A Brief Tour of Everything We Know
    • By: Paul Bloom
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you....

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    • The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
    • By: David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Two leading authorities – a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time – collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945....

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    • By: Ian Tattersall
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Human life, and how we came to be, is one of the greatest scientific and philosophical questions of our time. This compact and accessible book presents a modern view of human evolution.

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    • The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause
    • By: Susan Mattern
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Woodward
    • Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-19
    • Language: English
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    • The Slow Moon Climbs casts menopause, at last, in the positive light it deserves - not only as an essential life stage, but also as a key factor in the history of human flourishing....

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    • New, Updated and Completely Revised
    • By: Lawrence Freedman, Jeffrey Michaels
    • Narrated by: Richard Elwood
    • Length: 24 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 27-07-21
    • Language: English
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    • First published in 1981, Lawrence Freedman's The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy was immediately acclaimed as the standard work on the history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has now been completely rewritten....

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    • The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • Jared Diamond explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world...and the means to irrevocably destroy it....

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    • Awakening the New Human Story
    • By: Gregg Braden
    • Narrated by: Gregg Braden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author and 2018 Templeton Award nominee Gregg Braden crosses the traditional boundaries of science and spirituality to answer the timeless question at the core of our existence....

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    • Colonizing Ice Age America
    • By: David J. Meltzer
    • Narrated by: Christopher Prince
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 15-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world....

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