Social Science Genetics

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    • 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....

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    • Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
    • Auteur(s): Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
    • Narrateur(s): Helen Stern
    • Durée: 22 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-01-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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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    • Auteur(s): Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Esther Wane
    • Durée: 11 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began....

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    • 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
    • Date de publication: 2015-12-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • 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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    • How Cooking Made Us Human
    • Auteur(s): Richard Wrangham
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Pariseau
    • Durée: 6 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-11-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability....

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    • Auteur(s): Daniel C. Dennett
    • Narrateur(s): Robert Blumenfeld
    • Durée: 11 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-10-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world?...

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    • The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us
    • Auteur(s): Avi Tuschman
    • Narrateur(s): Jay Snyder
    • Durée: 17 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-09-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • The first book to tell the natural history of political orientations....

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    • Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
    • Auteur(s): Nicholas Wade
    • Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
    • Durée: 12 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Just in the last three years, a flood of new scientific findings, driven by revelations discovered in the human genome, has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries....

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    • 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....

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    • How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
    • Auteur(s): Angela Saini
    • Narrateur(s): Hannah Melbourn
    • Durée: 7 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-05-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 évaluations
    • Whether looking at intelligence or emotion, cognition or behavior, science has continued to tell us that men and women are fundamentally different....

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    • From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
    • Auteur(s): Rob Dunn
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Durée: 9 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination....

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    • Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
    • Auteur(s): David P. Barash
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
    • Durée: 11 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • 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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    • How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
    • Auteur(s): Leonard Shlain
    • 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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    • The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship Between You and Your Genes
    • Auteur(s): Steven J. Heine
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen R. Thorne
    • Durée: 10 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-04-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Around 250,000 people have had their genomes sequenced, and scientists expect that number to rise to one billion by 2025....

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    • How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are
    • Auteur(s): Libby Copeland
    • Narrateur(s): Cindy Kay
    • Durée: 11 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • A deeply reported look at the rise of home genetic testing and the seismic shock it has had on individual lives....

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    • 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....

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    • 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....

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    • Auteur(s): Tamler Sommers
    • Narrateur(s): Tamler Sommers
    • Durée: 6 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 évaluations
    • To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of honor is essential to living moral lives. In Why Honor Matters, Sommers argues that our collective rejection of honor has come at great cost....

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    • Auteur(s): Terry Burnham, Jay Phelan
    • Narrateur(s): Pat Woodruff
    • Durée: 7 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2000-10-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Why do we want - and do - so many things that are bad for us? We vow to lose those extra five pounds, put money in the bank, and mend neglected relationships...

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    • The Secret Life of Bone
    • Auteur(s): Riley Black (Brian Switek)
    • Narrateur(s): Will Damron
    • Durée: 6 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In this natural and cultural history of bone, author Brian Switek explains where our skeletons came from, what they do inside us, and what others can learn about us when these wondrous assemblies of mineral and protein are all we've left behind....

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