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Sapiens

A Brief History of Humankind: The multi-million copy bestseller

by Yuval Noah Harari ...

Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

Unabridged

15 hours 18 min

****ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.In this bold and ... Read more

£14.40

****ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.In this bold and
... Read more
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The Greatest Show on Earth

The Evidence for Evolution

by Richard Dawkins ...

Narrated by Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward ...

Unabridged

14 hours 35 min

Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet ... Read more

£10.80

Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet
... Read more
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The Elephant in the Brain

Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

by Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson ...

Narrated by Jeffrey Kafer ...

Unabridged

10 hours 26 min

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better—and thus we don't like to talk or even think about the ... Read more

£16.66

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better—and thus we don't like to talk or even think about the
... Read more
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Power, Sex, Suicide

Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life

by Nick Lane ...

Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

Unabridged

15 hours 54 min

Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But there is much more to them than that.Mitochondria have their own DNA, with their own small collection of genes, separate from those in the cell ... Read more

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Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But there is much more to them than that.Mitochondria have their own DNA, with their own small collection of genes, separate from those in the cell
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Gaia Wakes

Earth's Emergent Consciousness in an Age of Environmental Devastation

by Topher McDougal ...

Narrated by Topher McDougal ...

Unabridged

12 hours 27 min

Gaia Wakes presents a compelling new framework for understanding the past, present, and future of our planet. Starting from a strong foundation in economics and drawing on a vast range of multidisciplinary scholarship, Topher McDougal explores the possibility of a fifth transition towards an upgraded Earth: the development of a technologically enabled planetary brain capable of coordinating ... Read more

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Gaia Wakes presents a compelling new framework for understanding the past, present, and future of our planet. Starting from a strong foundation in economics and drawing on a vast range of multidisciplinary scholarship, Topher McDougal explores the possibility of a fifth transition towards an upgraded Earth: the development of a technologically enabled planetary brain capable of coordinating
... Read more
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Making Sense of Cancer

From Its Evolutionary Origin to Its Societal Impact and the Ultimate Solution

by Jarle Breivik ...

Narrated by Jarle Breivik ...

Unabridged

6 hours 30 min

Embark on a captivating journey that will fundamentally change how you see cancer—and perhaps life itself. Cancer is more than a disease. It is an integral part of who we are—complex biological and cultural beings with a limited life span. You will be surprised, challenged, and even amused by this eloquent synthesis of knowledge. Firmly rooted in science and the principles of evolution, this book ... Read more

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Embark on a captivating journey that will fundamentally change how you see cancer—and perhaps life itself. Cancer is more than a disease. It is an integral part of who we are—complex biological and cultural beings with a limited life span. You will be surprised, challenged, and even amused by this eloquent synthesis of knowledge. Firmly rooted in science and the principles of evolution, this book
... Read more
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Design Dissected

Is the design real?

by David J Galloway ...

Narrated by David J Galloway ...

Unabridged

5 hours 58 min

Many people assert that all of reality, including life, has simply emerged as a result of natural law and circumstance. How credible is that assumption? How well does it fit with what we find? Exquisite features of apparent design are in evidence everywhere we look. Either something is responsible for all the molecular engineering of life or, it just happened and nothing is directly responsible. ... Read more

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Many people assert that all of reality, including life, has simply emerged as a result of natural law and circumstance. How credible is that assumption? How well does it fit with what we find? Exquisite features of apparent design are in evidence everywhere we look. Either something is responsible for all the molecular engineering of life or, it just happened and nothing is directly responsible.
... Read more
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Survival

Evolutionary Rules for Intelligent Species Survival

by Samuel Layne, Sherry Wang, Illustrator ...

Narrated by Nathaniel Ascher ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Survival
Unabridged

20 hours 40 min

FINALIST: (1) 2020 (14TH) ANNUAL NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS; (2) 2021 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDSHow different might the history of our species have been had our hunter-gatherer forebears failed to migrate out of Africa in time to survive 70,000 years ago when threatened by extinction due to climate change brought on by the last ice age? Simply put, we would not exist. Now, similarly ... Read more

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FINALIST: (1) 2020 (14TH) ANNUAL NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS; (2) 2021 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDSHow different might the history of our species have been had our hunter-gatherer forebears failed to migrate out of Africa in time to survive 70,000 years ago when threatened by extinction due to climate change brought on by the last ice age? Simply put, we would not exist. Now, similarly
... Read more
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Divine Intelligence

Is Life Woven Into the Fabric of the Universe?

by Ylia Callan ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Chris G ...

Unabridged

1 hour 31 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Divine Intelligence - Is Life Woven Into the Fabric of the Universe takes listeners on a profound journey through science, philosophy, and spirituality to explore one of the deepest questions of all: is life an accident of chance, or a fundamental feature of the cosmos itself?From the first sparks on a young Earth to the latest discoveries of ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Divine Intelligence - Is Life Woven Into the Fabric of the Universe takes listeners on a profound journey through science, philosophy, and spirituality to explore one of the deepest questions of all: is life an accident of chance, or a fundamental feature of the cosmos itself?From the first sparks on a young Earth to the latest discoveries of
... Read more
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Reflective Cosmos, The

A Unified Theory of Space, Life and Mind

by Ylia Callan ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Chris G ...

Unabridged

1 hour 35 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Reflective Cosmos - A Unified Theory of Space, Life and Mind invites listeners on a profound journey into the very fabric of existence. Blending cosmology, physics, biology, and philosophy, this groundbreaking work proposes that the universe itself is a mirror - a reflective medium through which space, time, life, and consciousness reveal their ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Reflective Cosmos - A Unified Theory of Space, Life and Mind invites listeners on a profound journey into the very fabric of existence. Blending cosmology, physics, biology, and philosophy, this groundbreaking work proposes that the universe itself is a mirror - a reflective medium through which space, time, life, and consciousness reveal their
... Read more
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A Little History of Everything

From the Big Bang to You

by Tim Coulson ...

Narrated by Tim Coulson ...

Unabridged

12 hours 32 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.A COMPLETE, UNCOMPLICATED GUIDE TO THE SCIENCE OF LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING**Have you ever wondered why you exist?What had to happen for you – and all life on Earth – to come into being?What is the true answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything?In The Universal History of Us, Tim Coulson – Professor of Zoology at Oxford – takes us back ... Read more

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**Brought to you by Penguin.A COMPLETE, UNCOMPLICATED GUIDE TO THE SCIENCE OF LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING**Have you ever wondered why you exist?What had to happen for you – and all life on Earth – to come into being?What is the true answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything?In The Universal History of Us, Tim Coulson – Professor of Zoology at Oxford – takes us back
... Read more
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Inheritance

The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World

by Harvey Whitehouse ...

Narrated by Harvey Whitehouse ...

Unabridged

10 hours 55 min

Brought to you by PenguinHow our evolved psychology has shaped the past, present and future of humanity.Each of us is endowed with an inheritance. A set of ancient biases, forged through countless millennia of natural and cultural selection, which shape every facet of our behaviour.For generations, this inheritance has taken us to ever greater heights, driving the rise of more sophisticated ... Read more

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Brought to you by PenguinHow our evolved psychology has shaped the past, present and future of humanity.Each of us is endowed with an inheritance. A set of ancient biases, forged through countless millennia of natural and cultural selection, which shape every facet of our behaviour.For generations, this inheritance has taken us to ever greater heights, driving the rise of more sophisticated
... Read more
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Science in the Soul

Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

by Richard Dawkins ...

Narrated by Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, Gillian Somerscales ...

Unabridged

14 hours 40 min

Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook edition of Science in the Soul by Richard Dawkins, read by the author, Lalla Ward and Gillian Somerscales.This edition includes a bonus PDF of a bibliography and references.Richard Dawkins - author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion - is one of science's greatest communicators. This anthology of more than forty pieces is a ... Read more

£10.80

Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook edition of Science in the Soul by Richard Dawkins, read by the author, Lalla Ward and Gillian Somerscales.This edition includes a bonus PDF of a bibliography and references.Richard Dawkins - author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion - is one of science's greatest communicators. This anthology of more than forty pieces is a
... Read more
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Human Agency

75% DNA, 25% Free Will

by Muren Herrid ...

Narrated by To be determined ...

Unabridged

5 hours 10 min

Nature versus nurture has shaped centuries of debate—but what if the answer is neither, and both?In Human Agency: 75% DNA, 25% Free Will, scientist and biotechnologist Muren Herrid, PhD, revisits the classic question of whether our lives are determined by genetics (nature) or environment and experience (nurture)—and argues that modern science demands a more nuanced answer.Drawing on research in ... Read more

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Nature versus nurture has shaped centuries of debate—but what if the answer is neither, and both?In Human Agency: 75% DNA, 25% Free Will, scientist and biotechnologist Muren Herrid, PhD, revisits the classic question of whether our lives are determined by genetics (nature) or environment and experience (nurture)—and argues that modern science demands a more nuanced answer.Drawing on research in
... Read more
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Life Changing

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION

by Helen Pilcher ...

Narrated by Helen Pilcher ...

Unabridged

13 hours 2 min

Bloomsbury presents Life Changing written and read by Helen Pilcher.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION'Pilcher is both very funny and very, very clever.' Gillian Burke'Richly entertaining throughout.' Sunday TimesFor the last three billion years or so, life on Earth was shaped by natural forces. Evolution tended to happen slowly, with species crafted across ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents Life Changing written and read by Helen Pilcher.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION'Pilcher is both very funny and very, very clever.' Gillian Burke'Richly entertaining throughout.' Sunday TimesFor the last three billion years or so, life on Earth was shaped by natural forces. Evolution tended to happen slowly, with species crafted across
... Read more
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The Fool and the Heretic

How Two Scientists Moved beyond Labels to a Christian Dialogue about Creation and Evolution

by Todd Charles Wood, Darrel R. Falk ...

Narrated by Gabe Wicks, John Behrens, John Watson ...

Unabridged

3 hours 40 min

The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church. To some in the church, anyone who accepts the theory of evolution has rejected ... Read more

£11.69

The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church. To some in the church, anyone who accepts the theory of evolution has rejected
... Read more
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A Brief History of Intelligence

Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI

by Max Bennett ...

Narrated by George Newbern ...

Unabridged

12 hours 17 min

Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be.'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & SlowThe entirety of the human brain’s 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way ... Read more

£16.19

Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be.'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & SlowThe entirety of the human brain’s 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way
... Read more
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Other Minds

The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...

Narrated by Peter Noble ...

Unabridged

6 hours 43 min

BBC R4 Book of the Week ‘Brilliant’ Guardian ‘Fascinating and often delightful’ The TimesWhat if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter?In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how ... Read more

£14.39

BBC R4 Book of the Week ‘Brilliant’ Guardian ‘Fascinating and often delightful’ The TimesWhat if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter?In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how
... Read more
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The Shortest History of Sex

Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation

by David Baker ...

Narrated by Grant Cartwright ...

Unabridged

9 hours 2 min

From the first microbial exchanges of DNA to Tinder and sexbots, how did sex begin, and how did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence do our genetic ancestors have on our current love lives? And what might sex look like in the future?With acuity, humor, and respect for human diversity, The Shortest History of Sex reveals where the many facets of our sexuality—chemical, ... Read more

£13.33

From the first microbial exchanges of DNA to Tinder and sexbots, how did sex begin, and how did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence do our genetic ancestors have on our current love lives? And what might sex look like in the future?With acuity, humor, and respect for human diversity, The Shortest History of Sex reveals where the many facets of our sexuality—chemical,
... Read more
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Life

The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science

by John Brockman ...

Narrated by Mike Chamberlain, Antony Ferguson, Jonathan Yen ...

Unabridged

12 hours 37 min

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.Richard Dawkins and J. Craig Venter ... Read more

£13.66

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.Richard Dawkins and J. Craig Venter
... Read more
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A World Beyond Physics

The Emergence and Evolution of Life

by Stuart A. Kauffman ...

Narrated by Bob Souer ...

Unabridged

3 hours 44 min

Among the estimated one hundred billion solar systems in the known universe, evolving life is surely abundant. That evolution is a process of "becoming" in each case. Since Newton, we have turned to physics to assess reality. But physics alone cannot tell us where we came from, how we arrived, and why our world has evolved past the point of unicellular organisms to an extremely complex biosphere ... Read more

£8.66

Among the estimated one hundred billion solar systems in the known universe, evolving life is surely abundant. That evolution is a process of "becoming" in each case. Since Newton, we have turned to physics to assess reality. But physics alone cannot tell us where we came from, how we arrived, and why our world has evolved past the point of unicellular organisms to an extremely complex biosphere
... Read more
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Beasts Before Us

The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution

by Elsa Panciroli ...

Narrated by Ruth Urquhart ...

Unabridged

10 hours 38 min

For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but over the last twenty years scientists have uncovered new fossils and used new technologies that have upended this story.In Beasts Before Us, paleontologist Elsa Panciroli charts the emergence of the mammal lineage, Synapsida, beginning at their murky split from the reptiles in the ... Read more

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For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but over the last twenty years scientists have uncovered new fossils and used new technologies that have upended this story.In Beasts Before Us, paleontologist Elsa Panciroli charts the emergence of the mammal lineage, Synapsida, beginning at their murky split from the reptiles in the
... Read more
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The Secret of Our Success

How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

by Joseph Henrich ...

Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

Unabridged

17 hours 15 min

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of ... Read more

£14.66

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of
... Read more
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A Most Improbable Journey

A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves

by Walter Alvarez ...

Narrated by Adam Verner ...

Unabridged

6 hours 5 min

Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of historians. Geologist Walter Alvarez-best known for his Impact Theory explaining dinosaur extinction-makes a compelling case for a new, science-first approach to Big History. He brings a scientist's view to the human story, from the creation of our universe ... Read more

£16.66

Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of historians. Geologist Walter Alvarez-best known for his Impact Theory explaining dinosaur extinction-makes a compelling case for a new, science-first approach to Big History. He brings a scientist's view to the human story, from the creation of our universe
... Read more

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