Social Science Genetics
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Mean Genes
- Auteur(s): Terry Burnham, Jay Phelan
- Narrateur(s): Pat Woodruff
- Durée: 7 h et 26 min
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Short, sassy, and bold, Mean Genes reveals that our struggles for self-improvement are, in fact, battles against our own genes - genes that helped our distant ancestors flourish, but are selfish and out of place in the modern world.
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Mean Genes
- Narrateur(s): Pat Woodruff
- Durée: 7 h et 26 min
- Date de publication: 2000-10-30
- Langue: Anglais
- 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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Skeleton Keys
- The Secret Life of Bone
- Auteur(s): Riley Black (Brian Switek)
- Narrateur(s): Will Damron
- Durée: 6 h et 56 min
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Author Brian Switek is a charming and enthusiastic osteological raconteur. In this natural and cultural history of bone, he 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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bones babey!
- Écrit par LeAnna Kolbuch le 2021-04-12
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Skeleton Keys
- The Secret Life of Bone
- Narrateur(s): Will Damron
- Durée: 6 h et 56 min
- Date de publication: 2019-03-05
- Langue: Anglais
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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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Good Enough
- The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
- Auteur(s): Daniel S. Milo
- Narrateur(s): Qarie Marshall
- Durée: 8 h et 16 min
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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? In this lively and wide-ranging meditation on the curious accidents and unexpected detours on the path of life, Daniel Milo argues that we ask these questions because we’ve embraced a faulty conception of how evolution - and human society - really works.
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Important
- Écrit par Rob Farrow le 2020-08-21
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Good Enough
- The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
- Narrateur(s): Qarie Marshall
- Durée: 8 h et 16 min
- Date de publication: 2019-06-03
- Langue: Anglais
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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....
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Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression
- Auteur(s): Hector A. Garcia
- Narrateur(s): Seth Andrews
- Durée: 10 h et 46 min
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This book uses evolutionary psychology as a lens to explain religious violence and oppression. The author, a clinical psychologist, examines religious scriptures, rituals, and canon law, highlighting the many ways in which our evolutionary legacy has shaped the development of religion and continues to profoundly influence its expression.
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Very long
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-04-26
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Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression
- Narrateur(s): Seth Andrews
- Durée: 10 h et 46 min
- Date de publication: 2018-10-23
- Langue: Anglais
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This incisive analysis goes a long way toward explaining the historic and ongoing violence committed in the name of religion....
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Masters of the Planet
- The Search for Our Human Origins
- Auteur(s): Ian Tattersall
- Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
- Durée: 8 h et 43 min
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Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led to its survival while the rest became extinct. Just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become masters of the planet? Ian Tattersall, curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us deep into the fossil record to uncover what made humans so special.
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Masters of the Planet
- The Search for Our Human Origins
- Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
- Durée: 8 h et 43 min
- Date de publication: 2019-02-12
- Langue: Anglais
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Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack....
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Domesticated
- Evolution in a Man-Made World
- Auteur(s): Richard C. Francis
- Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
- Durée: 13 h et 6 min
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Without our domesticated plants and animals, human civilization as we know it would not exist. We would still be living at subsistence level as hunter-gatherers if not for domestication. It is no accident that the cradle of civilization - the Middle East - is where sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, and cats commenced their fatefully intimate associations with humans.
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Domesticated
- Evolution in a Man-Made World
- Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
- Durée: 13 h et 6 min
- Date de publication: 2015-07-28
- Langue: Anglais
- Without our domesticated plants and animals, human civilization as we know it would not exist....
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Perv
- The Sexual Deviant in All of Us
- Auteur(s): Jesse Bering
- Narrateur(s): Jesse Bering
- Durée: 6 h et 56 min
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In his eye-opening new book, Perv, the award-winning columnist and psychologist Jesse Bering argues that we are all sexual deviants on one level or another. As Bering takes us into the lives of a woman who falls madly in love with the Eiffel Tower, a young man addicted to seductive sneezes, and a pair of deeply affectionate identical twins, among others, he challenges us to move beyond our judgments and attitudes toward "deviant" sex and consider the alternative: What would happen if we rise above our fears and revulsions and accepted our true natures?
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Perv
- The Sexual Deviant in All of Us
- Narrateur(s): Jesse Bering
- Durée: 6 h et 56 min
- Date de publication: 2013-10-08
- Langue: Anglais
- In Perv, Jesse Bering argues that we are all sexual deviants on one level or another....
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Cro-Magnon
- How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
- Auteur(s): Brian Fagan
- Narrateur(s): James Langton
- Durée: 9 h et 52 min
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Best-selling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling. Cro-Magnon reveals human society in its infancy, facing enormous environmental challenges - including a rival species of humans, the Neanderthals. For ten millennia, Cro-Magnons lived side by side with Neanderthals, an encounter that Fagan fills with drama.
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Cro-Magnon
- How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
- Narrateur(s): James Langton
- Durée: 9 h et 52 min
- Date de publication: 2010-03-02
- Langue: Anglais
- Best-selling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling....
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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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Prehistory
- Making of the Human Mind
- Auteur(s): Colin Renfrew
- Narrateur(s): Robert Ian MacKenzie
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
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A giant of archaeology, Colin Renfrew has immeasurably improved our understanding of human history. In this passionately argued work, he offers a concise summary of prehistory - human existence that predates the development of written records - while challenging the very definition of prehistory itself.
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Prehistory
- Making of the Human Mind
- Narrateur(s): Robert Ian MacKenzie
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
- Date de publication: 2009-02-27
- Langue: Anglais
- In this passionately argued work, Colin Renfrew offers a concise summary of prehistory while challenging the very definition of prehistory itself....
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Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- Auteur(s): Frans de Waal
- Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
- Durée: 6 h et 4 min
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"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes.
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Good Discussion
- Écrit par Thom Tisher le 2021-12-07
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Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
- Durée: 6 h et 4 min
- Date de publication: 2010-07-16
- Langue: Anglais
- Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits....
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Sapiens (Tamil Edition)
- Auteur(s): Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrateur(s): Arvind Rathnavel
- Durée: 18 h et 56 min
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From a renowned historian comes a ground-breaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution, a number one international best seller that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human”.
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Sapiens (Tamil Edition)
- Narrateur(s): Arvind Rathnavel
- Série: A Brief History Series (Tamil Edition), Livre 1
- Durée: 18 h et 56 min
- Date de publication: 2022-08-30
- Langue: Tamoul
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From a renowned historian comes a ground-breaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution, a number one international best seller that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human”....
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Science in the Soul
- Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
- Auteur(s): Richard Dawkins
- Narrateur(s): Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, Gillian Somerscales
- Durée: 14 h et 40 min
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For decades Richard Dawkins has been the world's most brilliant scientific communicator, consistently illuminating the wonders of nature and attacking faulty logic. Science in the Soul brings together 42 essays, polemics, and paeans - culled from personal papers, newspapers, lectures, and online salons - all written with Dawkins' characteristic erudition, remorseless wit, and unjaded awe of the natural world.
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Science in the Soul
- Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
- Narrateur(s): Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, Gillian Somerscales
- Durée: 14 h et 40 min
- Date de publication: 2017-08-08
- Langue: Anglais
- For decades Richard Dawkins has been the world's most brilliant scientific communicator, consistently illuminating the wonders of nature and attacking faulty logic....
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Our Inner Ape
- 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
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We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our genes? What if our behavior actually makes us apes? What kind of apes are we?
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I am a Frans de Waal's fan! Even more, now!
- Écrit par htcc le 2022-01-10
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Our Inner Ape
- A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
- Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
- Durée: 10 h et 14 min
- Date de publication: 2005-12-12
- Langue: Anglais
- What if our behavior actually makes us apes? What kind of apes are we....
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Creative Evolution
- Auteur(s): Henri Bergson
- Narrateur(s): Ellis Freeman
- Durée: 12 h et 52 min
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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 that may also be understood as a natural creative impulse. The book also developed concepts of time which influenced writers like Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann. Bergson's term "duration", for example, refers to an individual, subjective experience of time, as opposed to the mathematical, objectively measurable clock time.
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Creative Evolution
- Narrateur(s): Ellis Freeman
- Durée: 12 h et 52 min
- Date de publication: 2020-02-25
- Langue: Anglais
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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....
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The Case Against Perfection
- Auteur(s): Michael J. Sandel
- Narrateur(s): Pete Cross
- Durée: 2 h et 44 min
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Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature - to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why.
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The Case Against Perfection
- Narrateur(s): Pete Cross
- Durée: 2 h et 44 min
- Date de publication: 2019-08-14
- Langue: Anglais
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Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature....
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The Invaders
- How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
- Auteur(s): Pat Shipman
- Narrateur(s): Donna Postel
- Durée: 7 h et 20 min
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Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe - descendants of a much earlier migration of the African genus Homo. But when modern humans eventually made their way to Europe 45,000 years ago, Neanderthals suddenly vanished.
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Thought provoking
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2021-01-02
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The Invaders
- How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
- Narrateur(s): Donna Postel
- Durée: 7 h et 20 min
- Date de publication: 2015-05-19
- Langue: Anglais
- Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe....
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The Kingdom of Speech
- Auteur(s): Tom Wolfe
- Narrateur(s): Robert Petkoff
- Durée: 4 h et 38 min
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Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.
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The Kingdom of Speech
- Narrateur(s): Robert Petkoff
- Durée: 4 h et 38 min
- Date de publication: 2016-08-30
- Langue: Anglais
- The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong....
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Summer for the Gods
- 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
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Edward Larson's classic, Summer for the Gods, received the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1998 and is the single most authoritative account of a pivotal event whose combatants remain at odds in school districts and courtrooms. For this edition Larson has added a new preface that assesses the state of the battle between creationism and evolution and points the way to how it might potentially be resolved.
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Summer for the Gods
- The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
- Narrateur(s): Brian Troxell
- Durée: 10 h et 47 min
- Date de publication: 2017-10-03
- Langue: Anglais
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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....
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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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