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Riveted
- The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe
- Auteur(s): Jim Davies
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Josdal
- Durée: 9 h et 15 min
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Professor Jim Davies's fascinating and highly accessible book, Riveted, reveals the evolutionary underpinnings of why we find things compelling. Drawing on work from philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, psychology, economics, computer science, and biology, Davies offers a comprehensive explanation to show that in spite of the differences between the many things that we find compelling, they have similar effects on our minds and brains.
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Really Interesting
- Écrit par J Taylor le 2018-03-07
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Riveted
- The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Josdal
- Durée: 9 h et 15 min
- Date de publication: 2017-08-15
- Langue: Anglais
- Professor Jim Davies's fascinating and highly accessible book, Riveted, reveals the evolutionary underpinnings of why we find things compelling....
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The 10,000 Year Explosion
- How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
- Auteur(s): Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
- Durée: 8 h et 10 min
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Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years.
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The 10,000 Year Explosion
- How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
- Durée: 8 h et 10 min
- Date de publication: 2022-01-18
- Langue: Anglais
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Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years....
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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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Unfortunately Bold
- Écrit par Honjovi le 2023-05-17
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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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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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When Humans Nearly Vanished
- The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
- Auteur(s): Donald R. Prothero
- Narrateur(s): Qarie Marshall
- Durée: 6 h et 47 min
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Some 73,000 years ago, the Mount Toba supervolcano in toda's Indonesia erupted, releasing the energy of a million tons of explosives. So much ash and debris was injected into the stratosphere that it partially blocked the sun's radiation and caused global temperatures to drop for a decade. In this book, Donald R. Prothero presents the controversial argument that the Toba catastrophe nearly wiped out the human race, leaving only about a thousand to ten thousand breeding pairs of humans worldwide.
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This book did die, unlike humans
- Écrit par Kadman67 le 2018-10-30
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When Humans Nearly Vanished
- The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
- Narrateur(s): Qarie Marshall
- Durée: 6 h et 47 min
- Date de publication: 2018-10-16
- Langue: Anglais
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Some 73,000 years ago, the Mount Toba supervolcano in toda's Indonesia erupted, releasing the energy of a million tons of explosives. So much ash and debris was injected into the stratosphere that it partially blocked the sun's radiation and caused global temperatures to drop for a decade....
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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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Life
- The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science
- Auteur(s): John Brockman
- Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain, Antony Ferguson, Jonathan Yen
- Durée: 12 h et 37 min
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Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more rapidly than at any point in human history, from the extraordinary decoding of DNA to the controversial emergence of biotechnology. Featuring pioneering biologists, geneticists, physicists, and science writers, Life explains just how far we've come - and takes a brilliantly educated guess at where we're heading.
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Life
- The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science
- Narrateur(s): Mike Chamberlain, Antony Ferguson, Jonathan Yen
- Durée: 12 h et 37 min
- Date de publication: 2015-12-27
- Langue: Anglais
- Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more rapidly than at any point in human history, from the extraordinary decoding of DNA to the controversial emergence of biotechnology....
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The Human Advantage
- A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
- Auteur(s): Suzana Herculano-Houzel
- Narrateur(s): Dina Pearlman
- Durée: 7 h et 8 min
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Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25 percent of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cousins, the great apes, behind. So the human brain is special, right? Wrong, according to Suzana Herculano-Houzel. Humans have developed cognitive abilities that outstrip those of all other animals but not because we are evolutionary outliers.
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The Human Advantage
- A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
- Narrateur(s): Dina Pearlman
- Durée: 7 h et 8 min
- Date de publication: 2016-06-16
- Langue: Anglais
- Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25 percent of all the energy the body requires each day....
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Future Humans
- Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution
- Auteur(s): Scott Solomon
- Narrateur(s): Donald Corren
- Durée: 5 h et 34 min
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In this intriguing book, evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon draws on the explosion of discoveries in recent years to examine the future evolution of our species. Combining knowledge of our past with current trends, Solomon offers convincing evidence that evolutionary forces still affect us today. But how will modernization - including longer lifespans, changing diets, global travel, and widespread use of medicine and contraceptives - affect our evolutionary future?
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Future Humans
- Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution
- Narrateur(s): Donald Corren
- Durée: 5 h et 34 min
- Date de publication: 2016-10-25
- Langue: Anglais
- In this intriguing book, evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon draws on the explosion of discoveries in recent years to examine the future evolution of our species....
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50 Great Myths of Human Evolution
- Understanding Misconceptions About Our Origins
- Auteur(s): John H. Relethford
- Narrateur(s): Steven Menasche
- Durée: 14 h et 11 min
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50 Great Myths of Human Evolution uses common misconceptions to explore basic theory and research in human evolution and strengthen critical thinking skills for lay audiences, listeners, and students. Includes myths such as: "Humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs"; "Lucy was so small because she was a child"; "Our ancestors have always made fire"; and "There is a strong relationship between brain size and intelligence."
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50 Great Myths of Human Evolution
- Understanding Misconceptions About Our Origins
- Narrateur(s): Steven Menasche
- Durée: 14 h et 11 min
- Date de publication: 2017-10-02
- Langue: Anglais
- 50 Great Myths of Human Evolution uses common misconceptions to explore basic theory and research in human evolution and strengthen critical thinking skills for lay audiences, listeners, students....
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A Natural History of the Future
- What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
- Auteur(s): Rob Dunn
- Narrateur(s): Donald Chang
- Durée: 8 h et 40 min
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Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which we have tried to use to seize control of life and bend the planet to our will. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life’s overlords, but we are instead at its mercy. In the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the power of natural selection to create biodiversity, and even the surprising life of the London Underground, Dunn finds laws of life that no human activity can annul.
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A Natural History of the Future
- What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
- Narrateur(s): Donald Chang
- Durée: 8 h et 40 min
- Date de publication: 2021-11-09
- Langue: Anglais
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Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which we have tried to use to seize control of life and bend the planet to our will. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile....
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The Secret Body
- How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live
- Auteur(s): Daniel M Davis
- Narrateur(s): Jot Davies
- Durée: 6 h et 46 min
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The Secret Body is a gripping drama of discovery and a landmark account of the dawning revolution in human health that reveals a hitherto invisible universe within each of us.
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The Secret Body
- How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live
- Narrateur(s): Jot Davies
- Durée: 6 h et 46 min
- Date de publication: 2021-07-01
- Langue: Anglais
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The Secret Body is a gripping drama of discovery and a landmark account of the dawning revolution in human health that reveals a hitherto invisible universe within each of us....
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Red
- A History of the Redhead
- Auteur(s): Jacky Colliss Harvey
- Narrateur(s): Jacky Colliss Harvey
- Durée: 6 h et 36 min
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Red is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. An audiobook that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the special nature of being a redhead, with a look at multiple disciplines, including science, religion, politics, feminism and sexuality, literature, and art. With an obsessive fascination that is as contagious as it is compelling, author Jacky Colliss Harvey (herself a redhead) begins her exploration of red hair in prehistory and traces the redhead gene as it made its way out of Africa with the early human diaspora.
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Red
- A History of the Redhead
- Narrateur(s): Jacky Colliss Harvey
- Durée: 6 h et 36 min
- Date de publication: 2015-06-09
- Langue: Anglais
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Red is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. An audiobook that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the special nature of being a redhead, with a look at multiple disciplines, including science, religion, politics, feminism and sexuality....
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Evolutionary History: A Captivating Guide to the Theory of Evolution, Evolutionary History, and Human Evolution
- Exploring the Past
- Auteur(s): Captivating History
- Narrateur(s): Colin Fluxman
- Durée: 4 h et 26 min
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Dive into Evolutionary History, a mesmerizing journey through time, tracing the origins and development of all living beings. From the earliest single-celled organisms to the rise of Homo sapiens, this audiobook unravels the intricate tapestry of evolution with clarity and passion. Explore the wonders of life’s evolution across geological epochs, uncovering the secrets of adaptation, survival, and the remarkable journey of our ancestors.
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Evolutionary History: A Captivating Guide to the Theory of Evolution, Evolutionary History, and Human Evolution
- Exploring the Past
- Narrateur(s): Colin Fluxman
- Durée: 4 h et 26 min
- Date de publication: 2024-08-23
- Langue: Anglais
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Dive into Evolutionary History, a mesmerizing journey through time, tracing the origins and development of all living beings.
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Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You
- Busting Myths About Human Nature
- Auteur(s): Agustín Fuentes
- Narrateur(s): Korey Jackson
- Durée: 12 h et 13 min
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Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields, including anthropology, biology, and psychology, Fuentes devises a myth-busting toolkit to dismantle persistent fallacies about the validity of biological races, the innateness of aggression and violence, and the nature of monogamy, sex, and gender. This revised and expanded edition provides up-to-date references, data, and analyses, and addresses new topics, including the popularity of home DNA testing kits and the lies behind ‘"incel" culture.
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Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You
- Busting Myths About Human Nature
- Narrateur(s): Korey Jackson
- Durée: 12 h et 13 min
- Date de publication: 2022-12-27
- Langue: Anglais
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Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields, including anthropology, biology, and psychology, Fuentes devises a myth-busting toolkit to dismantle persistent fallacies about the validity of biological races, the innateness of violence, and the nature of monogamy, sex, and gender....
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Enough
- Setting Limits on Human Genetic Technology
- Auteur(s): Bill McKibben
- Narrateur(s): Bill McKibben
- Durée: 4 h et 48 min
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Bill McKibben, examines the dangers inherent in an array of technologies that threaten not just our survival, but our identity. Imagine a future where lab workers can reprogram human embryos to make our children "smarter" or "more sociable" or "happier." Enough examines such possibilities, and explains how we can avoid their worst consequences while still enjoying the fruits of our new scientific understandings.
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Enough
- Setting Limits on Human Genetic Technology
- Narrateur(s): Bill McKibben
- Durée: 4 h et 48 min
- Date de publication: 2003-05-02
- Langue: Anglais
- We are on the verge of crossing a line - from born to made, from created to built...
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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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Evolution Gone Wrong
- The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don’t)
- Auteur(s): Alex Bezzerides
- Narrateur(s): Joe Knezevich
- Durée: 9 h et 12 min
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An eye-opening look into why our bodies work - or don’t - the way they do. From blurry vision to crooked teeth, ACLs (anterior cruciate ligaments) that tear at alarming rates and spines that seem to spend a lifetime falling apart, it’s surprising that human beings have beaten the odds as a species. After all, we’re the only survivors on our branch of the tree of life. In this funny, wide-ranging and often surprising book, biologist Alex Bezzerides tells us from where we inherited our adaptable, achy, brilliant bodies in the process of evolution.
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Good general study on our weird evolution
- Écrit par Jamie Levine le 2022-04-23
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Evolution Gone Wrong
- The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don’t)
- Narrateur(s): Joe Knezevich
- Durée: 9 h et 12 min
- Date de publication: 2021-05-18
- Langue: Anglais
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In this funny, wide-ranging and often surprising book, biologist Alex Bezzerides tells us from where we inherited our adaptable, achy, brilliant bodies in the process of evolution....
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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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First Steps
- How Upright Walking Made Us Human
- Auteur(s): Jeremy DeSilva
- Narrateur(s): Kaleo Griffith
- Durée: 9 h et 17 min
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Blending history, science, and culture, a stunning and highly engaging evolutionary story exploring how walking on two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s dominant species.
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First Steps
- How Upright Walking Made Us Human
- Narrateur(s): Kaleo Griffith
- Durée: 9 h et 17 min
- Date de publication: 2021-04-06
- Langue: Anglais
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Blending history, science, and culture, a stunning and highly engaging evolutionary story exploring how walking on two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s dominant species....
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