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Genetics Audiobooks

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    Behave

    The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

    by Robert M Sapolsky ...
    Narrated by Michael Goldstrom ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 27 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook edition of Behave by Robert Sapolsky, read by Michael Goldstrom.The New York Times best sellerWinner of the 2017 LA Times Book PrizeWhy do human beings behave as they do?We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over... ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Flowers For Algernon

    The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece

    by Daniel Keyes ...
    Narrated by Adam Sims ...
    Audiobook 6 - S.F. MASTERWORKS

    Unabridged

    8 hours 26 min

    'A masterpiece of poignant brilliance . . . heartbreaking' GuardianCharlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctors hope will increase his intelligence - a procedure that has been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. All Charlie wants is to be smart and have friends, but the ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Who We Are and How We Got Here

    Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

    by David Reich ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 51 min

    A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human historyGeneticists 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 ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How to Argue With a Racist

    History, Science, Race and Reality

    by Adam Rutherford ...
    Narrated by Adam Rutherford ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 2 min

    *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'Nobody deals with challenging subjects more interestingly and compellingly than Adam Rutherford, and this may be his best book yet. This is a seriously important work' BILL BRYSONRace is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal to science to strengthen racist ideologies is on the rise - and increasingly part of the public ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

    The Stories in Our Genes

    by Adam Rutherford ...
    Narrated by Adam Rutherford ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 14 min

    'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian CoxThis is a story about you.It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Gene

    An Intimate History

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 21 min

    ***Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016*The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee.**Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.The story of ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Blueprint

    How DNA Makes Us Who We Are

    by Robert Plomin ...
    Narrated by Robert Plomin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 22 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Blueprint written and read by Robert Plomin.The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% 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 ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy

    What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves

    by Arik Kershenbaum ...
    Narrated by Samuel West ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 13 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of 'aliens' as Hollywood stereotypes. The time has come to abandon our fixation on alien monsters and place our expectations on solid scientific footing.Using his own expert understanding of life ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Pleased to Meet Me

    Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are

    by Bill Sullivan ...
    Narrated by Alex Boyles ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 3 min

    Why are you attracted to a certain “type?” Why are you a morning person? Why do you vote the way you do? From a witty new voice in popular science comes a clever, life-changing look at what makes you you.“I can’t believe I just said that.” “What possessed me to do that?” “What’s wrong with me?”We’re constantly seeking answers to these fundamental human questions, and now, science has the answers. ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Hacking Darwin

    Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

    by Jamie Metzl ...
    Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 58 min

    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. At the dawn of the genetics revolution, our DNA is becoming as readable, writable, and hackable as our information technology. But as humanity starts retooling our own genetic code, the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Lost Family

    How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are

    by Libby Copeland ...
    Narrated by Cindy Kay ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 12 min

    A deeply reported look at the rise of home genetic testing and the seismic shock it has had on individual livesYou swab your cheek or spit into a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal a long-buried family secret and upend your entire sense of ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Ancestor's Tale

    A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life

    by Prof Richard Dawkins, Yan Wong ...
    Narrated by Prof Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward ...

    Abridged

    8 hours 54 min

    One of the most brilliant scientists of our age gives us his definitive work: a synthesis of his comprehensive vision of life.THE ANCESTOR'S TALE is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we and they converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join us at about 6 million years in the past, orang utans at 14 million years, as we stride on together, a ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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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

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Genetics in the Madhouse

    The Unknown History of Human Heredity

    by Theodore M. Porter ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 1 min

    In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Genpoolparty - Wie uns die Wissenschaft stärker, schlauer und weniger unausstehlich macht (Ungekürzte Lesung)

    by Martin Moder ...
    Narrated by Thomas Nicolai ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours

    Wie hat die Biologie Sie zu dem wunderbaren Menschen gemacht, der Sie ohne Zweifel sind? Tragen Sie selbst die Verantwortung für Ihre Persönlichkeit und Intelligenz? Oder können Sie die Schuld jemand anderem zuschieben? Das neue Buch von Science-Slam-Europameister Martin Moder entführt uns in die Naturwissenschaft der Zukunft und klärt dabei spielerisch die bedeutendsten Fragen. Wie wird man ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Philadelphia Chromosome

    A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level

    by Jessica Wapner ...
    Narrated by Heather Henderson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 43 min

    Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines, reconstructing the crucial breakthroughs, explaining the science behind them, and giving due to the dozens of researchers, doctors, and patients whose curiosity and determination restored the promise of a future to ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Genes de colores

    by Lluís Montoliu, Lluís Montoliu ...
    Narrated by Francesc Góngora ...
    series Lienzos y Matraces

    Unabridged

    7 hours 23 min

    El color de la piel es un carácter que no debería tener más connotaciones que las puramente descriptivas y fisiológicas, pero con demasiada frecuencia a lo largo de la historia ha sido un desgraciado motivo de discriminación, persecución, ataques o muertes. Resulta inaudito comprobar que apenas unas pocas variaciones genéticas en unos cuantos genes, que tienen un impacto evidente</... ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Third Chimpanzee

    The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

    by Jared Diamond ...
    Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 33 min

    The Development of an Extraordinary SpeciesWe human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created breathtaking works of art -- while chimps remain animals concerned primarily with the basic ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    La genética del cannabis: una mirada microscópica

    by Pharmacology University ...
    Narrated by Melissa Tercero ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 8 min

    En el siguiente audiolibro, vas a conocer el cannabis desde su unidad fundamental, es decir, aquello que lo identifica y le otorga sus características tan importantes, convirtiéndose en una especie única, a partir de su material genético o la información presente en los genes de la planta. Esta red de ADN (ácido desoxirribonucleico) y ARN (ácido ribonucleico), controla todos los procesos de ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Gene Machine

    The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome

    by Venki Ramakrishnan ...
    Narrated by Matthew Waterson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 12 min

    Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome-an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms-that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome, a fundamental discovery that both advances our knowledge of all life ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Mapping Humanity

    How Modern Genetics Is Changing Criminal Justice, Personalized Medicine, and Our Identities

    by Joshua Z. Rappoport, PhD ...
    Narrated by Peter Lerman ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 36 min

    Thanks to the popularity of personal genetic testing services, it's now easier than ever to get information about our own unique DNA-but who does this information really benefit? And, as genome editing and gene therapy transform the healthcare landscape, what do we gain-and what might we give up in return? Inside each of your cells is the nucleus, a small structure that contains all of the genetic ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Genetic Lottery

    Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

    by Kathryn Paige Harden ...
    Narrated by Katherine Fenton ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 3 min

    This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton makes a provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal societyIn recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health—and in ways that matter for educational and economic success in our current society.In The Genetic Lottery, ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Better Half

    On the Genetic Superiority of Women

    by Sharon Moalem ...
    Narrated by Sharon Moalem ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 43 min

    An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life'A powerful antidote to the myth of a "weaker sex"' Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered BrainFrom birth, genetic females are better at fighting viruses, infections and cancer. They do better at surviving epidemics and famines. They live longer, and even see the ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    River Out of Eden

    A Darwinian View of Life

    by Prof Richard Dawkins, Richard Dawkins ...
    Narrated by Prof Richard Dawkins ...
    series SCIENCE MASTERS

    Abridged

    2 hours 54 min

    The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and onwards. Dawkins explains that DNA must be thought of as the most sophisticated information system imaginable: 'Life is just bytes and bytes of information,' he writes. Using this perspective, he describes the mechanisms by which evolution has taken place, gradually but ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial