Social Science Genetics
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Big Ratchet
- How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
- Auteur(s): Ruth Defries
- Narrateur(s): Pam Ward
- Durée: 7 h et 15 min
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The Big Ratchet is the story of the ratchets: the technologies and innovations, big and small, that propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannahs of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket. Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on the miraculous. The Big Ratchet is the story of how it happened.
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Big Ratchet
- How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis
- Narrateur(s): Pam Ward
- Durée: 7 h et 15 min
- Date de publication: 2014-09-09
- Langue: Anglais
- The Big Ratchet is the story of the ratchets: the technologies and innovations, big and small, that propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannahs of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket....
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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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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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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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Born to Be Good
- The Science of a Meaningful Life
- Auteur(s): Dacher Keltner
- Narrateur(s): Marc Vietor
- Durée: 9 h et 49 min
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In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution: If humans are hardwired to lead lives that are "nasty, brutish, and short," why have we evolved with positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe, and compassion that promote ethical action and cooperative societies? Born to Be Good takes us on a journey through scientific discovery, personal narrative, and Eastern philosophy.
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Born to Be Good
- The Science of a Meaningful Life
- Narrateur(s): Marc Vietor
- Durée: 9 h et 49 min
- Date de publication: 2009-11-24
- Langue: Anglais
- In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution....
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Does Altruism Exist?
- Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
- Auteur(s): David Sloan Wilson
- Narrateur(s): Stuart Appleton
- Durée: 4 h et 28 min
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A powerful treatise that demonstrates the existence of altruism in nature, with surprising implications for human society. Does altruism exist? Or is human nature entirely selfish? In this eloquent and accessible book, famed biologist David Sloan Wilson provides new answers to this age-old question based on the latest developments in evolutionary science.
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Does Altruism Exist?
- Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
- Narrateur(s): Stuart Appleton
- Durée: 4 h et 28 min
- Date de publication: 2018-03-02
- Langue: Anglais
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A powerful treatise that demonstrates the existence of altruism in nature, with surprising implications for human society....
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Through a Glass Brightly
- Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are
- Auteur(s): David P. Barash
- Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
- Durée: 9 h et 3 min
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Noted scientist David P. Barash explores the process by which science has, throughout time, cut humanity "down to size", and how humanity has responded. A good paradigm is a tough thing to lose, especially when its replacement leaves us feeling more vulnerable and less special. And yet, as science has progressed, we find ourselves - like it or not - bereft of many of our most cherished beliefs, confronting an array of paradigms lost. Barash models his argument around a set of "old" and "new" paradigms that define humanity's place in the universe.
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Through a Glass Brightly
- Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are
- Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
- Durée: 9 h et 3 min
- Date de publication: 2018-09-11
- Langue: Anglais
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Noted scientist David P. Barash explores the process by which science has, throughout time, cut humanity "down to size", and how humanity has responded....
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Human Genetics
- Medical School Crash Course
- Auteur(s): AudioLearn Medical Content Team
- Narrateur(s): Bhama Roget
- Durée: 7 h et 35 min
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Written by experts and authorities in the field and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in the subject. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school human genetics course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master human genetics.
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Human Genetics
- Medical School Crash Course
- Narrateur(s): Bhama Roget
- Durée: 7 h et 35 min
- Date de publication: 2018-02-08
- Langue: Anglais
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Written by experts and authorities in the field and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in the subject....
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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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Persuasion
- The Practice of Influence: What Everyone Ought to Know About the Psychology of Persuasion. Become an Influencer Without Authority by Understanding the Science and Genetic Code of People
- Auteur(s): Jane Cialdini, Robert Austen
- Narrateur(s): Eric Nutting
- Durée: 2 h et 13 min
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Do you finally want to end the pain of missing out on life-changing opportunities and experiences because of a lack of being able to get people to see things your way? Are you wondering if there is a surefire method to help you get more out of life? If you thought yes, then you've come to the right place. Persuading people doesn't have to be complicated. In fact, it's much easier than you think, and you don't have to believe me.
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Persuasion
- The Practice of Influence: What Everyone Ought to Know About the Psychology of Persuasion. Become an Influencer Without Authority by Understanding the Science and Genetic Code of People
- Narrateur(s): Eric Nutting
- Durée: 2 h et 13 min
- Date de publication: 2020-02-04
- Langue: Anglais
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Persuading people doesn't have to be complicated. In fact, it's much easier than you think....
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Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life
- A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity Are Revolutionizing Our View of Human Nature
- Auteur(s): Douglas T. Kenrick
- Narrateur(s): Fred Stella
- Durée: 7 h et 31 min
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Between what can be learned from evolutionary psychology and cognitive science a picture emerges. In Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life, social psychologist Douglas Kenrick fuses these two fields to create a coherent story of human nature. In his analysis, many ingrained, apparently irrational behaviors—one-night stands, prejudice, conspicuous consumption, even art and religious devotion—are quite explicable and (when desired) avoidable.
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Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life
- A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity Are Revolutionizing Our View of Human Nature
- Narrateur(s): Fred Stella
- Durée: 7 h et 31 min
- Date de publication: 2011-04-26
- Langue: Anglais
- Social psychologist Douglas Kenrick fuses evolutionary psychology and cognitive science to create a coherent story of human nature....
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From Darwin to Derrida
- Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life
- Auteur(s): David Haig, Daniel C. Dennett - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
- Durée: 14 h et 59 min
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In From Darwin to Derrida, evolutionary biologist David Haig explains how a physical world of matter in motion gave rise to a living world of purpose and meaning. Natural selection, a process without purpose, gives rise to purposeful beings who find meaning in the world. The key to this, Haig proposes, is the origin of mutable “texts”―genes―that preserve a record of what has worked in the world. These texts become the specifications for the intricate mechanisms of living beings.
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From Darwin to Derrida
- Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life
- Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
- Durée: 14 h et 59 min
- Date de publication: 2020-11-24
- Langue: Anglais
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In From Darwin to Derrida, evolutionary biologist David Haig explains how a physical world of matter in motion gave rise to a living world of purpose and meaning. Natural selection, a process without purpose, gives rise to purposeful beings who find meaning in the world....
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Life’s Ratchet
- How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
- Auteur(s): Peter M. Hoffman
- Narrateur(s): Paul Hodgson
- Durée: 9 h et 52 min
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The cells in our bodies consist of molecules, made up of the same carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms found in air and rocks. But molecules, such as water and sugar, are not alive. So how do our cells - assemblies of otherwise "dead" molecules - come to life, and together constitute a living being? In Life’s Ratchet, physicist Peter M. Hoffmann locates the answer to this age-old question at the nanoscale.
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Life’s Ratchet
- How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
- Narrateur(s): Paul Hodgson
- Durée: 9 h et 52 min
- Date de publication: 2014-02-12
- Langue: Anglais
- Part history, part cutting-edge science, part philosophy, Life’s Ratchet takes us from ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern nanotechnology to tell the story of our quest for the machinery of life....
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Catching Fire
- How Cooking Made Us Human
- Auteur(s): Richard Wrangham
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Pariseau
- Durée: 6 h et 46 min
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Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution.
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Catching Fire
- How Cooking Made Us Human
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Pariseau
- Durée: 6 h et 46 min
- Date de publication: 2009-11-03
- Langue: Anglais
- Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability....
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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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Evolutions
- Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
- Auteur(s): Oren Harman
- Narrateur(s): Oren Harman
- Durée: 5 h et 49 min
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Evolutions brings to life the latest scientific thinking on the birth of the universe and the solar system, the journey from a single cell all the way to our human minds. Reawakening our sense of wonder and terror at the world around us and within us, Oren Harman uses modern science to create new and original mythologies.
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Evolutions
- Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
- Narrateur(s): Oren Harman
- Durée: 5 h et 49 min
- Date de publication: 2018-06-05
- Langue: Anglais
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Evolutions brings to life the latest scientific thinking on the birth of the universe and the solar system, the journey from a single cell all the way to our human minds....
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Women After All
- Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy
- Auteur(s): Melvin Konner MD
- Narrateur(s): Dina Pearlman
- Durée: 11 h et 21 min
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There is a human genetic fluke that is surprisingly common, due to a change in a key pair of chromosomes. In the normal condition the two look the same, but in this disorder one is malformed and shrunken beyond recognition. The result is a shortened life span, higher mortality at all ages, an inability to reproduce, premature hair loss, and brain defects variously resulting in attention deficit, hyperactivity, conduct disorder, hypersexuality, and an enormous excess of both outward and self-directed aggression. It is called maleness.
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Too much gender stereotypes
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-11-25
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Women After All
- Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy
- Narrateur(s): Dina Pearlman
- Durée: 11 h et 21 min
- Date de publication: 2015-07-15
- Langue: Anglais
- There is a human genetic fluke that is surprisingly common, due to a change in a key pair of chromosomes....
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Inferior
- 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
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Whether looking at intelligence or emotion, cognition or behavior, science has continued to tell us that men and women are fundamentally different. Biologists claim that women are better suited to raising families or are, more gently, uniquely empathetic. Men, on the other hand, continue to be described as excelling at tasks that require logic, spatial reasoning, and motor skills. But a huge wave of research is now revealing an alternative version of what we thought we knew.
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excellently articulated
- Écrit par Edwine Lwamba le 2023-04-29
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Inferior
- How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
- Narrateur(s): Hannah Melbourn
- Durée: 7 h et 31 min
- Date de publication: 2017-05-30
- Langue: Anglais
- 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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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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The Case Against Perfection
- Auteur(s): Michael J. Sandel
- Narrateur(s): Pete Cross
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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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