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“You'll root for these creatures and their survival. A marvelous narration.”—Booklist “Paleontologist Riley Black’s vivid writing and Wren Mack’s wonderstruck narration make these vignettes of prehistoric life on Earth fascinating listening.”—AudioFile Winner, A Friend of Darwin...

A unified theory of human living, the concept of Quanology represents the next evolutionary step in achieving what humans would consider "the good life." And while it's currently popular to view nature and technology as two fundamentally opposed concepts, Quanology approaches each as complementary to the other.

The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith’s three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in 2020. The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith’s three-part...

“Listeners will find A Fatal Inheritance to be an effective overview of research on cancer and hereditary predisposition, one that achieves serious investigation while remaining intensely human.”—BookPage Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research...

Arsuaga en su máximo esplendor. El primer libro sobre la evolución de la anatomía humana, y que une ciencia y arte. 4.ª edición Más de 40.000 lectores En el museo del Prado, un científico recorre con la vista la escultura del Diadúmeno de Policleto; en su anatomía puede leer una...

A Next Big Idea Club Must Read of February 2025 From the author of The Social Leap comes this thought-provoking exploration into humans’ two core evolutionary needs, for connection and autonomy, how the modern world has thrown them out of whack, and how we can rebalance them to improve our...

The story of four billion years of life on EarthLooking forward to a book that explains life? Well, here it is! Explaining Life Through Evolution opens a window to the four billion year history of the millions of species we see on this planet. This book does not simply narrate the story of...

Longlisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award “A bulletproof case that sexual diversity exists in the natural world…The Sexual Evolution is a thoughtfully and delightfully written book full of illuminating and entertaining information that will be new to most readers. At a...

In Origin Story, medical historian Howard Markel recounts the two-year period (1858 to 1860) of Darwin's writing of On the Origin of Species through its spectacular success and controversy. Simultaneously, Markel delves into the mysterious health symptoms Darwin developed, combing the literature to emerge with a cogent diagnosis of a case that has long fascinated medical historians.

Anna Blix takes the listener on a personal, investigative, and deeply fascinating journey through each of the 40 weeks in a human pregnancy. Parallelly, for each week, we meet other creatures who have just delivered their next generation into the world. The bacteria E. coli has multiplied by two within 20 minutes. An Eastern grey kangaroo is pregnant for just 5 weeks before giving birth to a baby the size of a bean, which then crawls into its pouch to grow. 

"An insightful and informative meander through the evolution of dinosaurs and other extinct species, with a touch of personal flair.”—Steve Brusatte, professor and paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh and New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs An...

Impara a costruire il tuo albero genealogico, conosci la storia della tua famiglia e sfoglia tra i ricordi dei tuoi cari. Chi erano i tuoi avi? Hai forse qualche passato nobiliare e non lo sai? E come riuscire da soli a raccogliere informazioni? Forse è meglio che ti fai aiutare da un esperto? Questo e molto altro in un ebook semplice, di facile lettura e senza pretese.

We are all familiar with the "march of progress," the representation of evolution that depicts a series of apelike creatures becoming progressively taller and more erect before finally reaching the upright human form. Its emphasis on linear progress has had a decisive impact on public understanding of evolution, yet the image contradicts modern scientific conceptions of evolution as complex and branching.

In der Geschichte der Menschheit hat es schon immer den Wunsch nach Unsterblichkeit und dem ewigen Leben gegeben. Im Laufe der Jahrhunderte haben die Menschen viele Versuche unternommen, um dieses Ziel zu erreichen. In der modernen Zeit haben Fortschritte in der Wissenschaft und Technologie das Potenzial geschaffen, dass das ewige Leben tatsächlich möglich werden könnte. Dieses Hörbuch untersucht die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten, wie das ewige Leben erreicht werden könnte, einschließlich der genetischen Manipulation, der Epigenetik, der Kryonik und der menschlichen KIs.

"Listening to Godfrey-Smith's exploration of animal consciousness will rattle every nook and cranny of your brain with an onslaught of interesting questions...the author leaves listeners with a radical new perspective." —AudioFile on Metazoa This program is read by the author. The bestselling...

Ever since the Scopes Monkey Trial in the early twentieth century, American evangelicals have considered scientists public enemy #1. But this antipathy to modern science turned deadly during the COVID-19 crisis, when white evangelicals snubbed precautions and vaccines. Herself an evangelical Christian and a science educator, Janet Kellogg Ray explains how we got here and how to fix it.

This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton gives a sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies.

From three-inch fang blennies to thirty-foot prehistoric crocodiles, from gaboon vipers to Neanderthals, Bite is a fascinating journey through the natural, scientific, and cultural history of something right in front of—or in—our faces: teeth. In Bite, zoologist Bill Schutt makes a...

Las especies vivas llevan poblando la Tierra unos 3.500 millones de años. Durante todo este tiempo, astronómicamente imposible de comprender por la mente humana, la vida siempre estuvo conectada a la naturaleza. Nunca fue necesario explicarle a ningún ser vivo qué comer o cuántas veces al día hacerlo ni el tiempo que puede exponerse al sol. Esto ha cambiado en apenas 150 años. Existe una raza a la que ahora es necesario enseñarle a nutrirse: la nuestra.

Le fondement de la biologie moderne – une des théories qui a le plus transformé notre vision du monde. Charles Darwin. La biologie moderne est née il y a 150 ans avec la théorie de l'évolution de Charles Darwin. Celle-ci apporte une vision nouvelle de la vie et de son histoire et explique de manière logique et unifiée la diversité du vivant.La théorie de la biologie moderne - Pierre-Henri Gouyon présente ici la théorie de l'évolution dans sa cohérence d'ensemble et ses développements les plus récents. Il répond ce faisant à nombre de questions.