Social Evolution

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    • God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
    • Auteur(s): Brenda Wineapple
    • Narrateur(s): Gabra Zackman
    • Durée: 12 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-08-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes trial, which captivated the nation and exposed profound divisions in America that still resonate today—divisions over the meaning of freedom, religion, education, censorship, and civil liberties in a democracy.

    Prix courant: 29,14 $

    • The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
    • Auteur(s): Donald R. Prothero
    • Narrateur(s): Qarie Marshall
    • Durée: 6 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 22,97 $

    • Auteur(s): Henri Bergson
    • Narrateur(s): Ellis Freeman
    • Durée: 12 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Creative Evolution is a 1907 book by the French philosopher Henri Bergson. The work proposes a version of orthogenesis in place of Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by the “élan vital”, a vital impetus....

    Prix courant: 35,08 $

    • How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
    • Auteur(s): Gaia Vince
    • Narrateur(s): Gaia Vince
    • Durée: 11 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? Listeners of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues that we are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
    • Auteur(s): Edward J. Larson
    • Narrateur(s): Brian Troxell
    • Durée: 10 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the 20th century's most contentious dramas: the Scopes trial....

    Prix courant: 28,27 $

    • The Strange Relationship Between Peace and Violence in Human Evolution
    • Auteur(s): Richard Wrangham
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Page
    • Durée: 11 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • The Goodness Paradox gives a new and powerful argument for how and why the uncanny combination of peacefulness and violence crystallized after our ancestors acquired language in Africa a quarter of a million years ago....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • A Historical Journey Through Time - Understanding the Political, Social and Cultural Evolution of the Region
    • Auteur(s): Will Forrest
    • Narrateur(s): Will Forrest
    • Durée: 1 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Looking to delve deeper into the history of the Balkans? This insightful book explores the complex factors that have led to the region's ongoing conflict and division....

    Prix courant: 8,71 $

    • Busting Myths About Human Nature
    • Auteur(s): Agustín Fuentes
    • Narrateur(s): Korey Jackson
    • Durée: 12 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-12-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 31,26 $

    • The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Revised and Updated Edition)
    • Auteur(s): Jean Manco
    • Narrateur(s): Corrie James
    • Durée: 10 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Who are the Europeans? Where did they come from? New research in the fields of archaeology and linguistics, a revolution in the study of genetics, and cutting-edge analysis of ancient DNA are dramatically changing our picture of prehistory....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • Auteur(s): Ludovic Slimak, Dr. David Watson
    • Narrateur(s): John Sackville
    • Durée: 6 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Ludovic Slimak has travelled around the world for the past thirty years to uncover who the Neanderthals really were. A modern-day Indiana Jones, he takes us on a fascinating archaeological investigation, tracing the steps of these enigmatic creatures and working to decipher their real stories....

    Prix courant: 26,00 $

    • The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause
    • Auteur(s): Susan Mattern
    • Narrateur(s): Jennifer Woodward
    • Durée: 15 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 20,15 $

    • Completing the Darwinian Revolution
    • Auteur(s): David Sloan Wilson
    • Narrateur(s): René Ruiz
    • Durée: 8 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • It is widely understood that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution completely revolutionized the study of biology. Yet, according to David Sloan Wilson, the Darwinian revolution won’t be truly complete until it is applied more broadly....

    Prix courant: 20,40 $

    • A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
    • Auteur(s): Frans de Waal
    • Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
    • Durée: 10 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2005-12-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • What if our behavior actually makes us apes? What kind of apes are we....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
    • Auteur(s): Daniel S. Milo
    • Narrateur(s): Qarie Marshall
    • Durée: 8 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Why is the genome of a salamander 40 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? Find out....

    Prix courant: 19,20 $

    • The Science of Beauty
    • Auteur(s): Nancy Etcoff
    • Narrateur(s): Donna Postel
    • Durée: 10 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, Gorillas on Drugs, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves
    • Auteur(s): Laurel Braitman
    • Narrateur(s): Madeleine Maby
    • Durée: 11 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-06-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • For the first time, a historian of science draws evidence from across the world to show how humans and other animals are astonishingly similar when it comes to their feelings....

    Prix courant: 27,66 $

    • Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
    • Auteur(s): Laurence Gonzales
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin T. Collins
    • Durée: 9 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-08-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 20 évaluations
    • Whether you are climbing a mountain or the corporate ladder, Everyday Survival will change the way you view your choices in our complex, dangerous, and quickly changing world....

    Prix courant: 22,76 $

    • How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World
    • Auteur(s): Bee Wilson
    • Narrateur(s): Bee Wilson
    • Durée: 12 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Food is one of life's great joys. So why has eating become such a source of anxiety and confusion? Bee Wilson shows that in two generations the world has undergone a massive shift from traditional, limited diets to more globalized ways of eating....

    Prix courant: 32,31 $

    • Genes, Race, and Human History
    • Auteur(s): Nicholas Wade
    • Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
    • Durée: 10 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-05-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 17,48 $

    • The Unofficial Guide to the Evolution of Walt Disney's Dream
    • Auteur(s): Sam Gennawey
    • Narrateur(s): James Patrick Cronin
    • Durée: 16 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-06-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • The Disneyland Story is the story of how Walt Disney's greatest creation was conceived, nurtured, and how it grew into a source of joy and inspiration for generations of visitors....

    Prix courant: 37,53 $