Genetic Politic

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    • How Autism Drives Human Invention
    • By: Simon Baron-Cohen
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire....

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    • The Evolution of Human Sexuality
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • There's no one better qualified than Jared Diamond to explain the evolutionary forces that operated on our ancestors to make us sexually different. With wit and examples, he explains how our sexuality has been as crucial as our large brains and upright posture in our rise to human status....

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    • The Evolution of Minds
    • By: Daniel C. Dennett
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists....

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    • How Stories Make Us Human
    • By: Jonathan Gottschall
    • Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives....

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    • How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
    • By: Brian Fagan
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Best-selling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling....

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    • By: Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins - foreword
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-2019
    • Language: English
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    • First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began....

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    • How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
    • By: Leonard Shlain
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality....

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    • Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict
    • By: Donna Hicks PhD
    • Narrated by: Margaret Strom
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-2016
    • Language: English
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    • The desire for dignity is universal and powerful. It is a motivating force behind all human interaction - in families, communities, the business world, and relationships at the international level....

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    • How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
    • By: Joseph Henrich
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-2018
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction
    • By: Pat Shipman
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe....

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    • The Search for Our Human Origins
    • By: Ian Tattersall
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-2019
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
    • By: David P. Barash
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-2018
    • Language: English
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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 Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-2011
    • Language: English
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    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

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    • A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne
    • By: Christine Desdemaines-Hugon
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Christine Desdemaines-Hugon has become an unrivaled expert in the cave art and artists of the Dordogne region. In Stepping-Stones she combines her expertise in both art and archaeology to convey an intimate understanding of the "cave experience"....

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    • Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Jamie Metzl
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives-sex, war, love, and death....

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    • The Science of Beauty
    • By: Nancy Etcoff
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 19-02-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argues that beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminism - it's in our biology....

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    • The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Jared Diamond explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world...and the means to irrevocably destroy it....

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    • Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
    • By: Robert Wright
    • Narrated by: Greg Thornton
    • Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 29-06-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Are men born to cheat? Does monogamy serve women's interests? Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics....

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    • Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
    • By: Donald Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally....

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