Human Genetics
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- Auteur(s): Gene Wolfe
- Narrateur(s): Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Durée: 7 h et 22 min
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Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there are robots. And there are clones. E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person, his personality an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer. Smithe is a piece of property, not a legal human. As such, Smithe can be loaned to other branches. Which he is. Along with two fellow reclones, a cookbook and romance writer, they are shipped to Polly's Cove, where Smithe meets a little girl who wants to save her mother, a father who is dead but perhaps not.
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- Narrateur(s): Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Série: A Borrowed Man, Livre 2
- Durée: 7 h et 22 min
- Date de publication: 2020-06-30
- Langue: Anglais
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Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there are robots. And there are clones. E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person, his personality an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer....
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The First Human
- The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
- Auteur(s): Ann Gibbons
- Narrateur(s): Renee Raudman
- Durée: 9 h et 54 min
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This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the "missing links" between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious scientists intent on pinpointing the dawn of humankind. The quest to find where and when the earliest human ancestors first appeared is one of the most exciting and challenging of all scientific pursuits.
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The First Human
- The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
- Narrateur(s): Renee Raudman
- Durée: 9 h et 54 min
- Date de publication: 2006-08-01
- Langue: Anglais
- This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the "missing links" between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting....
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- Auteur(s): Nicholas Wade
- Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
- Durée: 10 h et 48 min
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory. Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand years - to be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes.
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Fascinating how civilization drives evolution
- Écrit par Dilly Doe le 2025-01-22
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A Troublesome Inheritance
- Genes, Race, and Human History
- Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
- Durée: 10 h et 48 min
- Date de publication: 2014-05-06
- Langue: Anglais
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory....
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The Human Instinct
- Auteur(s): Kenneth R. Miller
- Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
- Durée: 10 h et 6 min
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Lately, the most passionate advocates of the theory of evolution seem to present it as bad news. Scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, and Sam Harris tell us that our most intimate actions, thoughts, and values are mere byproducts of thousands of generations of mindless adaptation. We are just one species among multitudes and therefore no more significant than any other living creature. Now comes Brown University biologist Kenneth R. Miller to make the case that this view betrays a gross misunderstanding of evolution.
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The Human Instinct
- Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
- Durée: 10 h et 6 min
- Date de publication: 2018-04-17
- Langue: Anglais
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A radical, optimistic exploration of how humans evolved to develop reason, consciousness, and free will. Equal parts natural science and philosophy, The Human Instinct is a moving and powerful celebration of what it means to be human....
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Rethinking Consciousness
- A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
- Auteur(s): Michael S. A. Graziano
- Narrateur(s): David de Vries
- Durée: 6 h et 29 min
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In this eye-opening work, Graziano accessibly explores how this sense of an inner being led to empathy and formed us into social beings. The theory may point the way to engineers for building consciousness artificially. Graziano discusses what a future with artificial consciousness might be like, including both advantages and risks, and what AI might mean for our evolutionary future.
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one of the best books on consciousness
- Écrit par A. Rahmani le 2021-04-03
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Rethinking Consciousness
- A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience
- Narrateur(s): David de Vries
- Durée: 6 h et 29 min
- Date de publication: 2019-09-17
- Langue: Anglais
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Focusing attention can help an animal find food or flee a predator. It also may have led to consciousness. Tracing evolution over millions of years, Michael S. A. Graziano uses examples from the natural world to show how neurons first allowed animals to develop simple forms of attention....
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A History of the Human Brain
- From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved
- Auteur(s): Bret Stetka
- Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
- Durée: 7 h et 54 min
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Just over 125,000 years ago, humanity was going extinct until a dramatic shift occurred—Homo sapiens started tracking the tides in order to eat the nearby oysters. Before long, they’d pulled themselves back from the brink of extinction. The human brain, and its evolutionary journey, is unlike anything else in history. In A History of the Human Brain, Bret Stetka takes listeners through that far-reaching journey. He also tackles the question of where the brain will take us next, exploring the burgeoning concepts of epigenetics and new technologies like CRISPR.
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He has not read Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Écrit par George Young le 2023-08-31
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A History of the Human Brain
- From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved
- Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
- Durée: 7 h et 54 min
- Date de publication: 2022-07-15
- Langue: Anglais
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In A History of the Human Brain, popular science writer Bret Stetka reveals how the evolution of the brain made us human—and where it may lead us to next....
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The History of Life
- A Very Short Introduction
- Auteur(s): Michael J. Benton
- Narrateur(s): Peter Larkin
- Durée: 5 h et 12 min
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Here is the extraordinary story of the unfolding of life on Earth, told by Michael J. Benton, a world-renowned authority on biodiversity. Ranging over four billion years, Benton weaves together the latest findings on fossils, earth history, evolutionary biology, and many other fields to highlight the great leaps that enabled life to evolve from microbe to human - big breakthroughs that made whole new ways of life possible - including cell division and multicellularity, hard skeletons, the move to land, the origin of forests, the move to the air.
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The History of Life
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrateur(s): Peter Larkin
- Durée: 5 h et 12 min
- Date de publication: 2021-06-22
- Langue: Anglais
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Here is the extraordinary story of the unfolding of life on Earth, told by Michael J. Benton, a world-renowned authority on biodiversity....
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution
- How We Became Sapiens
- Auteur(s): Silvana Condemi, Francois Savatier
- Narrateur(s): Christa Lewis
- Durée: 3 h et 30 min
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution brings us up-to-date on the exploits of all our ancient relatives. Paleoanthropologist Silvana Condemi and science journalist François Savatier consider what accelerated our evolution: Was it tools, our "large" brains, language, empathy, or something else entirely? And why are we the sole survivors among many early bipedal humans? Their conclusions reveal the various ways ancient humans live on today - from gossip as modern "grooming" to our gendered division of labor - and what the future might hold for our strange and unique species.
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Very good
- Écrit par Janet Drake le 2024-06-24
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution
- How We Became Sapiens
- Narrateur(s): Christa Lewis
- Durée: 3 h et 30 min
- Date de publication: 2019-10-29
- Langue: Anglais
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Why aren't we more like other apes? How did we win the evolutionary race? Find out how "wise" Homo sapiens really are....
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Minds Make Societies
- How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
- Auteur(s): Pascal Boyer
- Narrateur(s): Tom Parks
- Durée: 13 h et 4 min
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“There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature.” Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and other fields, Boyer offers precise models of why humans engage in social behaviors such as forming families, tribes, and nations, or creating gender roles.
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Minds Make Societies
- How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
- Narrateur(s): Tom Parks
- Durée: 13 h et 4 min
- Date de publication: 2018-09-27
- Langue: Anglais
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Integrating recent insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and other fields, Pascal Boyer offers precise models of why humans engage in social behaviors such as forming families, tribes, and nations, or creating gender roles....
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How the Mind Changed
- A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
- Auteur(s): Joseph Jebelli
- Narrateur(s): Joe Eyre
- Durée: 8 h et 4 min
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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.
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Intéressant mais insuffisant.
- Écrit par Paul Rivard le 2022-07-30
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How the Mind Changed
- A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
- Narrateur(s): Joe Eyre
- Durée: 8 h et 4 min
- Date de publication: 2022-07-12
- Langue: Anglais
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This is How the Mind Changed, the extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved…and is still evolving....
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Being a Human
- Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
- Auteur(s): Charles Foster
- Narrateur(s): Damian Lynch
- Durée: 10 h et 59 min
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How did humans come to be who we are? In his marvelous, eccentric, and widely lauded book Being a Beast, legal scholar, veterinary surgeon, and naturalist extraordinaire Charles Foster set out to understand the consciousness of animal species by living as a badger, otter, fox, deer, and swift. Now, he inhabits three crucial periods of human development to understand the consciousness of perhaps the strangest animal of all—the human being.
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Being a Human
- Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
- Narrateur(s): Damian Lynch
- Durée: 10 h et 59 min
- Date de publication: 2021-08-31
- Langue: Anglais
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Being a Human is one man’s audacious attempt to feel a connection with 45,000 years of human history. This glorious, fiercely imaginative journey from our origins to a possible future ultimately shows how we might best live on earth—and thrive....
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Human Evolution, 2nd Edition
- A Very Short Introduction
- Auteur(s): Bernard Wood
- Narrateur(s): Mike Cooper
- Durée: 3 h et 45 min
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The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly. Newly discovered fossil evidence is adding ever more pieces to the puzzle of our past, while revolutionary technological advances in the study of ancient DNA are completely reshaping theories of early human populations and migrations. In this Very Short Introduction, Bernard Wood traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the 18th century to the very latest fossil finds.
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great narrator; detailed novel
- Écrit par Kyle Riley le 2024-08-11
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Human Evolution, 2nd Edition
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrateur(s): Mike Cooper
- Durée: 3 h et 45 min
- Date de publication: 2021-08-10
- Langue: Anglais
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In this Very Short Introduction, Bernard Wood traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the 18th century to the very latest fossil finds....
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Meru
- The Alloy Era, Book 1
- Auteur(s): S.B. Divya
- Narrateur(s): Deepa Samuel
- Durée: 17 h et 43 min
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For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy. But when the Earthlike planet of Meru is discovered, two unlikely companions venture forth to test the habitability of this unoccupied new world and the future of human-alloy relations. For Jayanthi, the adopted human child of alloy parents, it’s an opportunity to rectify the ancient reputation of her species as avaricious and destructive, and to give humanity a new place in the universe.
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Great story, frustrating, if understandable, narration style
- Écrit par Dee Brooks le 2023-06-22
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Meru
- The Alloy Era, Book 1
- Narrateur(s): Deepa Samuel
- Série: The Alloy Era, Livre 1
- Durée: 17 h et 43 min
- Date de publication: 2023-02-01
- Langue: Anglais
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One woman and her pilot are about to change the future of the species in an epic space opera about aspiration, compassion, and redemption by Hugo and Nebula Award finalist S. B. Divya....
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The True Creator of Everything
- How the Human Brain Shaped the Universe as We Know It
- Auteur(s): Miguel Nicolelis
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
- Durée: 14 h et 41 min
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Nicolelis undertakes the first attempt to explain the entirety of human history, culture, and civilization based on a series of recently uncovered key principles of brain function. This new cosmology is centered around three fundamental properties of the human brain: its insurmountable malleability to adapt and learn; its exquisite ability to allow multiple individuals to synchronize their minds around a task, goal, or belief; and its incomparable capacity for abstraction.
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The True Creator of Everything
- How the Human Brain Shaped the Universe as We Know It
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
- Durée: 14 h et 41 min
- Date de publication: 2020-04-07
- Langue: Anglais
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Renowned neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis introduces listeners to a revolutionary new theory of how the human brain evolved to become an organic computer without rival in the known universe....
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Homo Mysterious
- Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
- Auteur(s): David P. Barash
- Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
- Durée: 11 h et 27 min
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For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P. Barash, there are even more things we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex the best minds in biology. Paradoxically, many of these mysteries are very close to home, involving some of the most personal aspects of being human. Homo Mysterious examines a number of these evolutionary mysteries, exploring things we don't yet know about ourselves, laying out the best current hypotheses, and pointing toward insights that scientists are just beginning to glimpse.
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Homo Mysterious
- Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
- Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
- Durée: 11 h et 27 min
- Date de publication: 2018-10-30
- Langue: Anglais
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For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P. Barash, there are even more things we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex the best minds in biology. Homo Mysterious examines a number of these evolutionary mysteries....
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Mother Nature
- Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
- Auteur(s): Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
- Narrateur(s): Helen Stern
- Durée: 22 h et 2 min
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Maternal instinct - the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children - has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature. But is it? In this provocative, groundbreaking audiobook, renowned anthropologist (and mother) Sarah Blaffer Hrdy shares a radical new vision of motherhood and its crucial role in human evolution. Hrdy strips away stereotypes and gender-biased myths to demonstrate that traditional views of maternal behavior are essentially wishful thinking codified as objective observation.
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Mother Nature
- Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
- Narrateur(s): Helen Stern
- Durée: 22 h et 2 min
- Date de publication: 2014-01-27
- Langue: Anglais
- Maternal instinct - the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children - has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature....
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What Is Health?
- Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design
- Auteur(s): Peter Sterling
- Narrateur(s): George Gopen
- Durée: 8 h et 20 min
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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
- Narrateur(s): George Gopen
- Durée: 8 h et 20 min
- Date de publication: 2023-10-04
- Langue: Anglais
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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....
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- Auteur(s): Annalee Newitz
- Narrateur(s): Kimberly Farr
- Durée: 10 h et 19 min
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In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?
As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet’s turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference.
It’s a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth’s past major disasters—from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation—resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent of the planet’s species died out. But in Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz, science journalist and editor of the science Web site io9.com explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation—humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just
during the last million years—but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions.
This brilliantly speculative work of popular science focuses on humanity’s long history of dodging the bullet, as well as on new threats that we may face in years to come. Most important, it explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow. From simulating tsunamis to studying central Turkey’s ancient underground cities; from cultivating cyanobacteria for “living cities” to designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective; from using math to stop pandemics to studying the remarkable survival strategies of gray whales, scientists and researchers the world over are discovering the keys to long-term resilience and learning how humans can choose life over death.
Newitz’s remarkable and fascinating journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about human ingenuity and our ability to change. In a world populated by doomsday preppers and media commentators obsessively forecasting our demise, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember is a compelling voice of hope. It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking into a future where we live to build a better world—on this planet and perhaps on others. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds.-
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- Narrateur(s): Kimberly Farr
- Durée: 10 h et 19 min
- Date de publication: 2013-05-14
- Langue: Anglais
- In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes....
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After Eden
- The Evolution of Human Domination
- Auteur(s): Kirkpatrick Sale
- Narrateur(s): Gary Regal
- Durée: 6 h et 28 min
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When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing the likelihood of an ecological catastrophe. How did humankind come to rule nature to such an extent? To regard the planet's resources and creatures as ours for the taking? To find ourselves on a seemingly relentless path toward ecocide?
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After Eden
- The Evolution of Human Domination
- Narrateur(s): Gary Regal
- Durée: 6 h et 28 min
- Date de publication: 2013-09-06
- Langue: Anglais
- Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct....
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Sex, Time, and Power
- How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
- Auteur(s): Leonard Shlain
- Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
- Durée: 14 h et 30 min
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Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human female's pelvis and the increasing size of infants' heads precipitated a crisis for the species. Natural selection allowed for reconfiguration of hormonal cycles, entraining women with the periodicity of the moon - and imbuing women with the concept of time.
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Sex, Time, and Power
- How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
- Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
- Durée: 14 h et 30 min
- Date de publication: 2020-07-28
- Langue: Anglais
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Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality....
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