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Human Diversity

The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

by Charles Murray ...

Narrated by David Baker ...

Unabridged

14 hours 15 min

A fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences.The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual orthodoxy that has ruled the social sciences for decades. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three dogmas:Gender is a social construct.Race is a social construct.Class is a function of privilege.The problem ... Read more

$31.99 USD

A fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences.The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual orthodoxy that has ruled the social sciences for decades. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three dogmas:Gender is a social construct.Race is a social construct.Class is a function of privilege.The problem
... Read more
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Lifespan

Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

by Matthew D. LaPlante, David Sinclair ...

Narrated by David Sinclair ...

Unabridged

11 hours 55 min

Audio Bonus! Includes exclusive conversations with the authors!A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Brilliant and enthralling.” —The Wall Street JournalA paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time’s most influential people.It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to bel... ... Read more

$26.99 USD

Audio Bonus! Includes exclusive conversations with the authors!A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Brilliant and enthralling.” —The Wall Street JournalA paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time’s most influential people.It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to bel...
... Read more
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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

$22.95 USD

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
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Origin

A Genetic History of the Americas

by Jennifer Raff ...

Narrated by Jennifer Raff, Tanis Parenteau, Yvonne Russo ...

Unabridged

9 hours 12 min

From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how humans migrated to the Americas.ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete genomes. ORIGIN provides an overview of these new histories ... Read more

$27.99 USD

From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how humans migrated to the Americas.ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete genomes. ORIGIN provides an overview of these new histories
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The Tangled Tree

A Radical New History of Life

by David Quammen ...

Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

Unabridged

13 hours 49 min

In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology, evolutionary biology, and genetics and genomics affect our understanding of evolution and life’s history.In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequencing to ... Read more

$29.99 USD

In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology, evolutionary biology, and genetics and genomics affect our understanding of evolution and life’s history.In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequencing to
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Proto

How One Ancient Language Went Global

by Laura Spinney ...

Narrated by Emma Spurgin-Hussey ...

Unabridged

9 hours 3 min

Bloomsbury presents Proto by Laura Spinney, read by Emma Spurgin-HusseyThe enthralling story of how today’s largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world’s population, descended from one ancient dialect.Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history’s most unlikely ... Read more

$22.00 USD

Bloomsbury presents Proto by Laura Spinney, read by Emma Spurgin-HusseyThe enthralling story of how today’s largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world’s population, descended from one ancient dialect.Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history’s most unlikely
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Life as We Made It

How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature

by Beth Shapiro ...

Narrated by Beth Shapiro ...

Unabridged

9 hours 40 min

From the first dog to the first beefalo, from farming to CRISPR, the human history of remaking natureWhen the 2020 Nobel Prize was awarded to the inventors of CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing tool, it underlined our amazing and apparently novel powers to alter nature. But as biologist Beth Shapiro argues in Life as We Made It, this phenomenon isn’t new. Humans have been reshaping the world ... Read more

$19.99 USD

From the first dog to the first beefalo, from farming to CRISPR, the human history of remaking natureWhen the 2020 Nobel Prize was awarded to the inventors of CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing tool, it underlined our amazing and apparently novel powers to alter nature. But as biologist Beth Shapiro argues in Life as We Made It, this phenomenon isn’t new. Humans have been reshaping the world
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Beyond Inheritance

Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health

by Roxanne Khamsi ...

Narrated by Roxanne Khamsi ...

Unabridged

8 hours 39 min

**“Constantly fascinating and impeccably reported...You won’t look at yourself in the same way again.” —Ed Yong, bestselling author of An Immense World and I Contain MultitudesA captivating exploration of the remarkable ways our DNA mutates over the course of our lives, with radical implications for the future of medicine**Our DNA is the indispensable set of instructions that guides our growth and ... Read more

$22.00 USD

**“Constantly fascinating and impeccably reported...You won’t look at yourself in the same way again.” —Ed Yong, bestselling author of An Immense World and I Contain MultitudesA captivating exploration of the remarkable ways our DNA mutates over the course of our lives, with radical implications for the future of medicine**Our DNA is the indispensable set of instructions that guides our growth and
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genetics of cannabis, The: a microscopic view

by Pharmacology University ...

Narrated by Sandra Loaiza ...

Unabridged

50 min

In this book, you will learn about cannabis from its fundamental unit, in other words, what identifies it and gives it these important characteristics, making it a unique species, based on its genetic material or the information present in the plant's genes. This network of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid), controls all the processes of defense, nutrition, and communication ... Read more

$10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In this book, you will learn about cannabis from its fundamental unit, in other words, what identifies it and gives it these important characteristics, making it a unique species, based on its genetic material or the information present in the plant's genes. This network of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid), controls all the processes of defense, nutrition, and communication
... Read more
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Alkymisten

by Peter James ...

Narrated by Troels Møller ...

Unabridged

25 hours 37 min

Genetikeren Dick Bannerman bliver anset som både gal og genial. Han har modtaget en nobelpris for sit arbejde, men medicinalindustrien er i oprør over, at han vil stille en epokegørende opdagelse gratis til rådighed for menneskeheden.På grund af dårlig økonomi må Dick nødtvunget lade sig ansætte af det internationale og meget magtfulde medicinalfirma Bendix Schere – og her drejer det sig om at ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Genetikeren Dick Bannerman bliver anset som både gal og genial. Han har modtaget en nobelpris for sit arbejde, men medicinalindustrien er i oprør over, at han vil stille en epokegørende opdagelse gratis til rådighed for menneskeheden.På grund af dårlig økonomi må Dick nødtvunget lade sig ansætte af det internationale og meget magtfulde medicinalfirma Bendix Schere – og her drejer det sig om at
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Super Genes

Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Well-Being

by Deepak Chopra M.D., Rudolph E. Tanzi Ph.D. ...

Narrated by Shishir Kurup ...

Unabridged

12 hours 17 min

The authors of the New York Times bestseller Super Brain present a bold new understanding of our genes and how simple changes in lifestyle can boost genetic activity. The leap into "radical well-being" is a promise waiting to be fulfilled."You are not simply the sum total of the genes you were born with," writes Deepak Chopra and Rudy Tanzi. "You are the user and controller of you... ... Read more

$20.99 USD

The authors of the New York Times bestseller Super Brain present a bold new understanding of our genes and how simple changes in lifestyle can boost genetic activity. The leap into "radical well-being" is a promise waiting to be fulfilled."You are not simply the sum total of the genes you were born with," writes Deepak Chopra and Rudy Tanzi. "You are the user and controller of you...
... Read more
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The Genius Factory

The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank

by David Plotz ...

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

Abridged

4 hours 53 min

From the former editor of Slate and CEO of Atlas Obscura comes the unbelievable story of “the Nobel Prize sperm bank” and the children it produced—“a superb book about the quest for genius and, ultimately, family” (Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Talking to Strangers).NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWSIt was the most radical human-breeding experiment . ... Read more

$13.99 USD

From the former editor of Slate and CEO of Atlas Obscura comes the unbelievable story of “the Nobel Prize sperm bank” and the children it produced—“a superb book about the quest for genius and, ultimately, family” (Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and Talking to Strangers).NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWSIt was the most radical human-breeding experiment .
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Bee Breeding Secrets: Enhancing Honey Production and Colony Health

by SREEKUMAR V T ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Mason G ...

Unabridged

3 hours 22 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Bee Breeding Secrets: Enhancing Honey Production and Colony Health is an indispensable guide for both amateur beekeepers and professional apiarists who aspire to unlock the full potential of their honey bee colonies. This comprehensive book delves into the intricacies of bee breeding, offering proven techniques and cutting-edge strategies to enhance ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Bee Breeding Secrets: Enhancing Honey Production and Colony Health is an indispensable guide for both amateur beekeepers and professional apiarists who aspire to unlock the full potential of their honey bee colonies. This comprehensive book delves into the intricacies of bee breeding, offering proven techniques and cutting-edge strategies to enhance
... Read more
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Molecular Biology Made Easy

An Essential Guide for Busy People In Everyday Language

by Turing Editorial Team ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Madison G ...

Unabridged

1 hour 15 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This audiobook is an easy-to-follow journey into the hidden world inside every living thing: the cell. Spoken in everyday language for busy people, this is the simplest yet comprehensive introduction to Molecular Biology for EveryoneAt its center is one big question: how does chemistry give rise to life? The audiobook begins with the cell as life’s ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This audiobook is an easy-to-follow journey into the hidden world inside every living thing: the cell. Spoken in everyday language for busy people, this is the simplest yet comprehensive introduction to Molecular Biology for EveryoneAt its center is one big question: how does chemistry give rise to life? The audiobook begins with the cell as life’s
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El sueño del tiempo

Un ensayo sobre las claves del envejecimiento y la longevidad

by Guido Kroemer, Carlos López-Otín ...

Narrated by Miguel Coll ...

Series series Trilogía de la vida
Unabridged

9 hours 34 min

DEL AUTOR DEL BESTSELLER LA VIDA EN CUATRO LETRASEl sueño del tiempo surge de la constatación de que, aunque la física y la filosofía nos enseñan que el flujo del tiempo puede ser solo una fantasía creada por nuestra mente, el tiempo biológico vive en nosotros y nosotros vivimos en el tiempo del mundo.Además, los avances tecnológicos en la frontera de las ciencias nos han llevado a cuestionar una ... Read more

$23.99 USD

DEL AUTOR DEL BESTSELLER LA VIDA EN CUATRO LETRASEl sueño del tiempo surge de la constatación de que, aunque la física y la filosofía nos enseñan que el flujo del tiempo puede ser solo una fantasía creada por nuestra mente, el tiempo biológico vive en nosotros y nosotros vivimos en el tiempo del mundo.Además, los avances tecnológicos en la frontera de las ciencias nos han llevado a cuestionar una
... Read more
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The 10,000 Year Explosion

How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending ...

Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

Unabridged

8 hours 10 min

Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years.Scientists have long believed that the "great leap forward" that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked the end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this stunningly original account of our evolutionary history, top ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years.Scientists have long believed that the "great leap forward" that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked the end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this stunningly original account of our evolutionary history, top
... Read more
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From One Cell

A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine

by Ben Stanger ...

Narrated by Noah James Butler ...

Unabridged

10 hours 19 min

Each of us began life as a single cell. From this humble origin, we embarked on a risky journey fraught with opportunities for disaster. Yet, amazingly, we reached our destination intact, emerging as dazzlingly complex, exquisitely engineered assemblages of trillions of cells. This metamorphosis constitutes one of nature's most spectacular yet commonplace magic tricks—and one of its most coveted ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Each of us began life as a single cell. From this humble origin, we embarked on a risky journey fraught with opportunities for disaster. Yet, amazingly, we reached our destination intact, emerging as dazzlingly complex, exquisitely engineered assemblages of trillions of cells. This metamorphosis constitutes one of nature's most spectacular yet commonplace magic tricks—and one of its most coveted
... Read more
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Junk DNA

A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome

by Nessa Carey ...

Narrated by Cat Gould ...

Unabridged

10 hours 16 min

For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98 percent of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. But researchers have recently discovered variations and modulations in this junk DNA that are involved with a ... Read more

$24.99 USD

For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98 percent of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. But researchers have recently discovered variations and modulations in this junk DNA that are involved with a
... Read more
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Regenesis

How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves

by George M. Church, Ed Regis ...

Narrated by Peter Lerman ...

Unabridged

10 hours 47 min

A Harvard biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life.In Regenesis, George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities of the emerging field of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology, in which living organisms are selectively altered by modifying ... Read more

$19.99 USD

A Harvard biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life.In Regenesis, George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities of the emerging field of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology, in which living organisms are selectively altered by modifying
... Read more
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CRISPR People

The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans

by Henry T. Greely ...

Narrated by Stephen Bowlby ...

Unabridged

10 hours 6 min

What does the birth of babies whose embryos had gone through genome editing mean—for science and for all of us?In November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that two babies had been born in China with DNA edited while they were embryos—as dramatic a development in genetics as the cloning of Dolly the sheep was in 1996. In this book, Hank Greely, a leading authority on law and genetics, tells ... Read more

$24.99 USD

What does the birth of babies whose embryos had gone through genome editing mean—for science and for all of us?In November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that two babies had been born in China with DNA edited while they were embryos—as dramatic a development in genetics as the cloning of Dolly the sheep was in 1996. In this book, Hank Greely, a leading authority on law and genetics, tells
... Read more
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The Inheritance

A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease

by Niki Kapsambelis ...

Narrated by Callie Beaulieu ...

Unabridged

9 hours 46 min

Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure or treatment. For most people, there is nothing that they can do to fight back. But one family is doing all they can.The DeMoe family has the most devastating form of the disease that there is: early onset Alzheimer’s, an inherited genetic mutation that ... Read more

$20.49 USD

Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure or treatment. For most people, there is nothing that they can do to fight back. But one family is doing all they can.The DeMoe family has the most devastating form of the disease that there is: early onset Alzheimer’s, an inherited genetic mutation that
... Read more
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Life

The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science

by John Brockman ...

Narrated by Mike Chamberlain, Antony Ferguson, Jonathan Yen ...

Unabridged

12 hours 37 min

Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more rapidly than at any point in human history, from the extraordinary decoding of DNA to the controversial emergence of biotechnology. Featuring pioneering biologists, geneticists, physicists, and science writers, Life explains just how far we've come—and takes a brilliantly educated guess at where we're heading.Richard Dawkins and J. Craig Venter ... Read more

$20.49 USD

Scientists' understanding of life is progressing more rapidly than at any point in human history, from the extraordinary decoding of DNA to the controversial emergence of biotechnology. Featuring pioneering biologists, geneticists, physicists, and science writers, Life explains just how far we've come—and takes a brilliantly educated guess at where we're heading.Richard Dawkins and J. Craig Venter
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The Seven Daughters of Eve

The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

by Bryan Sykes ...

Narrated by Michael Page ...

Unabridged

9 hours 5 min

One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix—a work whose scientific and cultural reverberations will be discussed for years to come. In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of both the Ice Man's discovery ... Read more

$19.99 USD

One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix—a work whose scientific and cultural reverberations will be discussed for years to come. In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of both the Ice Man's discovery
... Read more
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Unique

The New Science of Human Individuality

by David J. Linden ...

Narrated by Adam Barr ...

Unabridged

7 hours 40 min

Inspired by the abundance of unique personalities available on dating websites, a renowned neuroscientist examines the science of what makes you, you.David J. Linden has devoted his career to understanding the biology common to all humans. But a few years ago he found himself on OkCupid. Looking through that vast catalog of human diversity, he got to wondering: What makes us all so different? ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Inspired by the abundance of unique personalities available on dating websites, a renowned neuroscientist examines the science of what makes you, you.David J. Linden has devoted his career to understanding the biology common to all humans. But a few years ago he found himself on OkCupid. Looking through that vast catalog of human diversity, he got to wondering: What makes us all so different?
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