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白亜紀の大量絶滅を生き延びた恐竜の末裔が、いかにして重力を克服し空を舞う鳥へと進化を遂げたのか、古生物学がひもとく壮大な生命のドラマへご案内します。毎日の通勤時間やのんびりとした散歩中に耳を傾ければ...

A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written. 'Extraordinarily detailed, serious and engaging' Daily Mail 'One of the richest accounts of evolution ever' Financial Times 'Dizzying . . . fresh, exhilarating' Daily Telegraph The Ancestor's Tale is a...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Blueprint, written and read by Robert Plomin. The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1 percent of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion, our vulnerability to mental illness, even whether we are a morning person - all of these aspects of our personality are profoundly shaped by our inherited DNA differences. 

A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes—and what we can do about it. We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided, and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political...

The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies, and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a solution to conundrums that have puzzled generations of scientists.

Every day your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. Your body enables you to see and hear. It heals you from injuries and diseases. It maintains your temperature. It makes it possible for you to wield a sledgehammer during the day and play...

当两公斤看不见的共生微生物主宰你的代谢与免疫网络，你不再是孤立的生物个体，而是一座生机勃勃的微观生态岛屿。在这场无需任何专业背景的极简科普之旅中，我们跳出晦涩枯燥的学术说教，直接潜入细胞层面的生存现...

跨越四十亿年的深时尺度，一场充满偶然、毁灭与重生的生物演化史诗正在上演，人类远非这趟自然历史时间旅行的最终顶点。穿梭于深邃的远古地质年代，你将以震撼的宏观视角见证单细胞如何在极端环境中艰难破局，并逐...

Who are we, and how did we get here? These are two of the most fundamental and far-reaching questions facing scientists and cosmologists alike and have rested at the center of human intellectual endeavor since its beginning. They are questions that stretch across numerous disciplines. Philosophy, theology, evolutionary biology, and mathematics are just some of the fields looking to explain the emergence of human life.

What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of evolution, brains, and human culture.

生物と無生物の境界で揺れ動くミクロの侵入者が、いかにして細胞を操り、進化の歴史を書き換えてきたのかという究極の生命の謎を解き明かします。朝の通勤電車の中や夜のリラックスした時間に耳を傾けるだけで、見...

進化の歴史は単なる一本道の進歩ではなく、過酷な環境変化と偶然の突然変異が織りなす壮大なサバイバルと適応の連続です。知的好奇心を刺激するこの進化生物学の物語は、あなたの毎日の通勤時間や静かな夜のひとと...

地球の歴史に深く刻まれた五つの壮絶な大量絶滅の記憶をひもとき、絶対的な破滅の危機と奇跡的な再生を繰り返す生命史のダイナミズムを耳で体験する、極上のサイエンス・ノンフィクションです。静かな夜のリラック...

The definitive insider's history of the genetic revolution--significantly updated to reflect the discoveries of the last decade. James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from the...

Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archaeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our ancestry. In Who We Are and How We Got Here, Reich allows listeners to discover how the human genome provides not only all the information a human embryo needs to develop but also the hidden story of our species.

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.  

Among the estimated 100 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.

For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all our inventions - our tools, farms, machines, cities, nations - we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society.

Brian and Deborah Charlesworth provide a clear and concise summary of the process of evolution by natural selection, and how natural selection gives rise to adaptations and eventually, over many generations, to new species. They introduce the central concepts of the field of evolutionary biology, as they have developed since Darwin and Wallace on the subject, over 140 years ago, and discuss some of the remaining questions regarding processes.

A new edition of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth. Winner of Best Non-Fiction Audiobook at the New York Radio Awards 2019. Shortlisted for Best Audiobook at the Specsavers National Book Awards 2018. Shortlisted for Futurebook of the Year at the Futurebook Awards 2018. The...