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The Neanderthals Rediscovered
- How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (Revised and Updated Edition)
- 著者: Dimitra Papagianni, Michael A. Morse
- ナレーター: Nigel Patterson
- 再生時間: 5 時間 43 分
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In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals' behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in their prime, harvested seafood, and communicated with spoken language. Meanwhile, advances in DNA technologies are compelling us to reassess the Neanderthals' place in our own past.
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Like watching a good movie.
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/05/06
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Fossil Men
- The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- 著者: Kermit Pattison
- ナレーター: Roger Wayne
- 再生時間: 15 時間 21 分
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In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White - ”the Steve Jobs of paleoanthropology” - uncovered the bones of a human ancestor in Ethiopia’s Afar region. Radiometric dating of nearby rocks indicated the skeleton, classified as Ardipithecus ramidus, was 4.4 million years old, more than a million years older than “Lucy”, then the oldest known human ancestor.
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Metazoa
- Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
- 著者: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- ナレーター: Peter Godfrey-Smith, Mitch Riley
- 再生時間: 9 時間 48 分
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The scuba-diving philosopher and best-selling author of Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness. Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals and flower-like worms, whose rooted bodies and intricate geometry are more reminiscent of plant life than anything recognisably animal. Yet these creatures are our cousins.
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Oak Flat
- A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
- 著者: Lauren Redniss
- ナレーター: Lauren Redniss, Darrell Dennis, Kyla Garcia, 、その他
- 再生時間: 4 時間 15 分
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Oak Flat is a serene high-elevation mesa that sits above the Southeastern Arizona desert, 15 miles to the west of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. For the San Carlos tribe, Oak Flat is a holy place, an ancient burial ground and religious site where Apache girls celebrate the coming-of-age ritual known as the Sunrise Ceremony. In 1995, a massive untapped copper reserve was discovered nearby.
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Metropolis
- A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention
- 著者: Ben Wilson
- ナレーター: John Sackville
- 再生時間: 17 時間 8 分
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From its earliest incarnations 7,000 years ago to the megalopolises of today, the story of the city is the story of civilisation. Although cities have only ever been inhabited by a tiny minority of humanity, the heat they generate has sparked most of our political, social, commercial, scientific and artistic revolutions. It is these world-changing, epoch-defining moments that are the focus of Ben Wilson's book, as he takes us on a thrilling global tour of the key metropolises of history.
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The Human Cosmos
- Civilization and the Stars
- 著者: Jo Marchant
- ナレーター: Jo Marchant
- 再生時間: 11 時間 25 分
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For at least 20,000 years, we have led not just an earthly existence but a cosmic one. Celestial cycles drove every aspect of our daily lives. Our innate relationship with the stars shaped who we are - our art, religious beliefs, social status, scientific advances, and even our biology. But over the last few centuries we have separated ourselves from the universe that surrounds us. It's a disconnect with a dire cost.
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered
- How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (Revised and Updated Edition)
- 著者: Dimitra Papagianni, Michael A. Morse
- ナレーター: Nigel Patterson
- 再生時間: 5 時間 43 分
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In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals' behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in their prime, harvested seafood, and communicated with spoken language. Meanwhile, advances in DNA technologies are compelling us to reassess the Neanderthals' place in our own past.
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Like watching a good movie.
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/05/06
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Fossil Men
- The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
- 著者: Kermit Pattison
- ナレーター: Roger Wayne
- 再生時間: 15 時間 21 分
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In 1994, a team led by fossil-hunting legend Tim White - ”the Steve Jobs of paleoanthropology” - uncovered the bones of a human ancestor in Ethiopia’s Afar region. Radiometric dating of nearby rocks indicated the skeleton, classified as Ardipithecus ramidus, was 4.4 million years old, more than a million years older than “Lucy”, then the oldest known human ancestor.
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Metazoa
- Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
- 著者: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- ナレーター: Peter Godfrey-Smith, Mitch Riley
- 再生時間: 9 時間 48 分
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The scuba-diving philosopher and best-selling author of Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness. Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals and flower-like worms, whose rooted bodies and intricate geometry are more reminiscent of plant life than anything recognisably animal. Yet these creatures are our cousins.
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Oak Flat
- A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
- 著者: Lauren Redniss
- ナレーター: Lauren Redniss, Darrell Dennis, Kyla Garcia, 、その他
- 再生時間: 4 時間 15 分
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Oak Flat is a serene high-elevation mesa that sits above the Southeastern Arizona desert, 15 miles to the west of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. For the San Carlos tribe, Oak Flat is a holy place, an ancient burial ground and religious site where Apache girls celebrate the coming-of-age ritual known as the Sunrise Ceremony. In 1995, a massive untapped copper reserve was discovered nearby.
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Metropolis
- A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention
- 著者: Ben Wilson
- ナレーター: John Sackville
- 再生時間: 17 時間 8 分
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From its earliest incarnations 7,000 years ago to the megalopolises of today, the story of the city is the story of civilisation. Although cities have only ever been inhabited by a tiny minority of humanity, the heat they generate has sparked most of our political, social, commercial, scientific and artistic revolutions. It is these world-changing, epoch-defining moments that are the focus of Ben Wilson's book, as he takes us on a thrilling global tour of the key metropolises of history.
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The Human Cosmos
- Civilization and the Stars
- 著者: Jo Marchant
- ナレーター: Jo Marchant
- 再生時間: 11 時間 25 分
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For at least 20,000 years, we have led not just an earthly existence but a cosmic one. Celestial cycles drove every aspect of our daily lives. Our innate relationship with the stars shaped who we are - our art, religious beliefs, social status, scientific advances, and even our biology. But over the last few centuries we have separated ourselves from the universe that surrounds us. It's a disconnect with a dire cost.
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1177 B.C.
- The Year Civilization Collapsed
- 著者: Eric H. Cline
- ナレーター: Andy Caploe
- 再生時間: 8 時間 3 分
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In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh’s army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians.
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Bones
- Inside and Out
- 著者: Roy A. Meals MD
- ナレーター: L.J. Ganser
- 再生時間: 8 時間 12 分
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Human bone is versatile and entirely unique: It repairs itself without scarring, it's lightweight but responds to stresses, and it's durable enough to survive for millennia. In Bones, orthopedic surgeon Roy A. Meals explores and extols this amazing material that both supports and records vertebrate life.
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Britain at Bay
- The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941
- 著者: Alan Allport
- ナレーター: James Langton
- 再生時間: 21 時間 5 分
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Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely the military and political dimensions of the conflict's first crucial years, Alan Allport tackles questions such as: Could the war have been avoided? Could it have been lost? Were the strategic decisions the rights ones? How well did the British organize and fight? How well did the British live up to their own values? What difference did the war make in the end to the fate of the nation?
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Other Minds
- The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
- 著者: Peter Godfrey-Smith
- ナレーター: Peter Noble
- 再生時間: 7 時間 4 分
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Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to identify individual human keepers, raid neighboring tanks for food, turn off lightbulbs by spouting jets of water, plug drains, and make daring escapes.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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The Upswing
- How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
- 著者: Robert D. Putnam, Shaylyn Romney Garrett - contributor
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 12 時間 54 分
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Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissism - Americans today seem to agree on only one thing: This is the worst of times. But we’ve been here before. During the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, America was highly individualistic, starkly unequal, fiercely polarized, and deeply fragmented, just as it is today.
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Caste
- The Lies That Divide Us
- 著者: Isabel Wilkerson
- ナレーター: Robin Miles
- 再生時間: 14 時間 26 分
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Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today. With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilisations and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste.
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Deacon King Kong
- 著者: James McBride
- ナレーター: Dominic Hoffman
- 再生時間: 14 時間 5 分
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The year is 1969. In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon called Sportscoat shoots - for no apparent reason - the local drug-dealer who used to be part of the church's baseball team. The repercussions of that moment draw in the whole community, from Sportscoat's best friend - Hot Sausage - to the local Italian mobsters, the police (corrupt and otherwise), and the stalwart ladies of the Five Ends Baptist Church.
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Mad at the World
- A Life of John Steinbeck
- 著者: William Souder
- ナレーター: David Colacci
- 再生時間: 15 時間 42 分
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The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy. Angered by the plight of the Dust Bowl migrants who were starving even as they toiled to harvest California's limitless bounty and appalled by the country's refusal to recognize the humanity common to all of its citizens, Steinbeck took a stand against social injustice - paradoxically given his inherent misanthropy.
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The Deep History of Ourselves
- The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
- 著者: Joseph LeDoux
- ナレーター: Fred Sanders
- 再生時間: 11 時間 9 分
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Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This pause-resisting survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain developed, and what it means to be human. In The Deep History of Ourselves, LeDoux argues that the key to understanding human behavior lies in viewing evolution through the prism of the first living organisms.
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An Outsider's Guide to Humans
- What Science Taught Me About What We Do and Who We Are
- 著者: Camilla Pang
- ナレーター: Camilla Pang
- 再生時間: 6 時間 51 分
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Diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, she asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. With no blueprint to life, Pang began to create her own, using the language she understands best: Science. That lifelong project eventually resulted in An Outsider's Guide to Humans, an original and incisive exploration of human nature and the strangeness of social norms, written from the outside looking in.
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- 著者: Zachary D. Carter
- ナレーター: Robert Petkoff
- 再生時間: 22 時間 50 分
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At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that would change the course of history. Swept away from his placid home at Cambridge University by the currents of the conflict, Keynes found himself thrust into the halls of European treasuries to arrange emergency loans and packed off to America to negotiate the terms of economic combat.
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Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals.
Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins.
In Kindred, Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clichés of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. They ranged across vast tracts of tundra and steppe, but also stalked in dappled forests and waded in the Mediterranean Sea. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval.
At a time when our species has never faced greater threats, we're obsessed with what makes us special. But, much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals and their DNA is still inside us. Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality.
Kindred does for Neanderthals what Sapiens did for us, revealing a deeper, more nuanced story where humanity itself is our ancient, shared inheritance. It is only by understanding them, that we can truly understand ourselves.
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- Anthony
- 2020/10/30
awesome content
Rebecca is an awesome story teller. she draws you in then presents you with fantastic content and knowledge on Neanderthals
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- Howard Houchen
- 2020/11/24
Horrible Recording/Sound Quality
I've just started and have muddled through a bit of this terrible sound quality recording. Not sure if I can stand it to finish a book I am VERY interested in. Such a shame.
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- Dennis Fuller
- 2020/11/17
Topic is expertly treated but, performance is less
I really appreciated the authors approach to the subject and the discipline she brought to the story.
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- DT Campbell
- 2020/11/11
Best science/history I've heard in awhile
Perfectly balanced between close adherence to facts and evocative description of what Neanderthal life could have been like.
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- Leslie
- 2021/01/03
Narrator is pretty bad, content poorly presented.
I don't know why Audible let Rebecca Wragg Sykes read her book--I'd liken her U.K. accent to the sound of cellophane crumpling. Many Audible readers have British accents and are wholly clear; even enhance the narrative. But this author's reading is a challenge to follow. The tone of her voice goes up and down, and in some inflections the words or parts of the words get lost altogether. Then, alas, the author imagines she is "a writer" and the reader must endure imagery that is un-understandable. Some "poetic" passages are so baroque that it's hard to know what the author is talking about. There are also extra clauses in sentences that complicate the narrative, or seem to wander from the topic. I actually got a sample of the book from Kindle to see if I should just buy the print book, because I so love the mysteries and discoveries in paleoanthropology and assumed the print book would solve the problem. But the author simply cannot write clearly, and even in print, the narrative is hard work to follow. Other authors on this subject enlighten with a clear unfolding of information. This author does not.
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- timothy bailey
- 2020/12/04
Worth it
Glad I listened - words are pronounced properly. Really needs an accompanying PDF - perhaps with a map. Got lost sometimes, but she’s pulls you back in on the regular. Definitely worth a listen.
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- MR M B HENDERSON
- 2021/01/04
Ancestors and discovery - recommended
I enjoyed listening to the author’s often poetic description of the art of palaeontology and scientific discovery of our common history and migrations across the globe. Every piece of flint and discarded bone fragment is examined and used to describe the life of these people. Very convincing and told with an obvious affection.
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- Ex Library Worker
- 2021/01/03
Great overview of past and current knowledge
Fantastic writing to go along with an excellent overview of Neanderthals. I also like the overview of past and current knowledge and how that is still changing even now.
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- VCP
- 2020/12/26
Valorycp@hotmail.com
Fascinating, comprehensive, sometimes lyrical. A must read for all those interested in our deep past, it’s connections to our present, and it’s implications for our future.
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- Mara S.
- 2020/11/27
A Must-Have for Fans of Prehistory
Comprehensive, evocative, and even poignant, this book offers the perfect deep dive into the fascinating world of our Paleolithic cousins. The author treats her subjects with empathy and respect, offering a nuanced interpretation of the currently available evidence, and inviting the reader to contemplate their own place within the vast, grand narrative of human evolution.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020/10/19
Fantastic book!
Fascinating book! the author has gone much deeper in depth on the subject than other books I've read and really explains what is currently known about Neanderthals...more than I thought we knew! She really brings them to life and breaks down alot of misconceptions that we hold about them. 5 stars!!!
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- Susan Harvey
- 2021/01/03
Beautiful writing
My son is very interested in archaeology and I listened to this book to test whether to buy him the hardback for Christmas. It is beautifully written. I was never bored (which I expected to be) and found the insights and new information fascinating.
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- Christopher Inwood
- 2020/10/03
A wonderful journey thank you Rebecca. X
Every page was both enlightening and entertaining. Such a very interesting subject. I struggled with some of the technical phrases and had to pause and do some research (at 3 am!). I suspected that where certain evidence was finely balanced either way, Rebecca erred towards the Neanderthal positives and I felt that there was an underlying attempt throughout the book to sell us something. The introductions at the beginning of each chapter were so evocative. I often rewound to immerse myself further. Time traveling at its' best. I will certainly read this beauty again.