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Evolution Audiobooks

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    The Deep History of Ourselves

    The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains

    by Joseph LeDoux ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 9 min

    A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings todayRenowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This page-turning survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new ... Read more

    R382,25

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    Sapiens

    A Brief History of Humankind: The multi-million copy bestseller

    by Yuval Noah Harari ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 18 min

    ****ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.In this bold and ... Read more

    R356,96

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    How Life Works

    A User’s Guide to the New Biology

    by Philip Ball ...
    Narrated by Philip Ball ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 40 min

    ***Enticingly read by the author, Philip Ball.'*An essential primer on humanity’s ongoing quest to understand the secrets of life . . . Excellent . . . Ball is a terrific writer.' – Adam Rutherford, The GuardianA cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to revise our concept of what life is – from Science Book Prize winner Philip Ball.**Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound ... Read more

    R289,80

  • Audiobook

    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

    R312,34

  • Audiobook

    Lifespan

    Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To

    by Dr David A. Sinclair ...
    Narrated by Dr David A. Sinclair ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 55 min

    In this paradigm-shifting book from acclaimed Harvard Medical School doctor and one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people on earth, Dr. David Sinclair reveals that everything we think we know about ageing is wrong, and shares the surprising, scientifically-proven methods that can help readers live younger, longer.For decades, the medical community has looked to a variety of reasons for ... Read more

    R384,59

  • Audiobook

    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

    R382,06

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    The Dawn of Everything

    A New History of Humanity

    by David Graeber, David Wengrow ...
    Narrated by Malk Williams ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 2 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a ... Read more

    R356,96

  • Audiobook

    Политика у шимпанзе. Власть и секс у приматов

    by Франс Де Валь ...
    Narrated by Алексей Багдасаров ...

    Abridged

    9 hours 27 min

    Что отличает человека от обезьяны? Меньше, чем многим бы хотелось. И уж точно не только люди умеют бороться за власть. В 1970-х годах тогда еще молодой ученый Франс де Валь исследовал одну из крупнейших в мире колоний шимпанзе, живущих под открытым небом в зоопарке Арнема в Нидерландах. И выяснил, что обезьяны способны вести себя так, словно читали Макиавелли! Первое издание книги было хорошо ... Read more

    R91,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Gap

    The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals

    by Thomas Suddendorf ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours

    There exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals. Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the Earth, whereas even our closest animal relatives sit unobtrusively in their dwindling habitats. Yet despite longstanding debates, the nature of this apparent gap has remained unclear. What exactly is the difference between ... Read more

    R492,99

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    Why Are We Here?

    The Story of the Origin, Evolution, and Future of Life on Our Planet

    by Bruce Brodie ...
    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 8 min

    From the big bang, to the origin and evolution of intelligent life in a search for the meaning of human existence, Why are We Here?, by author Bruce Brodie, offers a look at evolution and the future of life on the planet. Through many years of research and study, Brodie addresses a host of questions: • How did chemistry come to life? • How did the release of oxygen by cyanobacteria change the ... Read more

    R133,13 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Origin of Species, The

    by Charles Darwin ...
    Narrated by James Harrington ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 42 min

    "The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin revolutionizes our understanding of life on Earth with its groundbreaking theory of natural selection. Darwin meticulously documents how species evolve over time through variations and survival of the fittest, challenging existing beliefs about creation and the diversity of life. This seminal work combines extensive observations with detailed scientific ... Read more

    R171,82 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Connections

    The New Science of Emotion

    by Karl Deisseroth ...
    Narrated by Karl Deisseroth, Natalie Naudus, Karen Chilton ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    In this riveting journey through the hidden realms of the human mind, a world-renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist explores the origins of human emotion, and examines what mental illnesses reveal about all of us - how the broken can illuminate the unbroken.Why do we feel what we feel?Mental illness is one of the greatest causes of human suffering, but the reasons we bear this burden, and the ... Read more

    R290,03

  • Audiobook

    The Evolutionary Edge

    A BBC Radio 4 nature series

    by Lucy Cooke ...
    Narrated by Lucy Cooke ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 41 min

    Lucy Cooke examines the survival strategies adopted by animals to gain an evolutionary advantageAward-winning broadcaster, bestselling author and zoologist Lucy Cooke has produced and presented numerous natural history shows on TV and radio, and has been tipped by The Times as 'the next David Attenborough'. In this BBC Radio 4 series, first broadcast under the title The Power Of..., she delves ... Read more

    R200,79

  • Audiobook

    A Story of Us

    A New Look at Human Evolution

    by Lesley Newson, Pete Richerson ...
    Narrated by Mike Cooper ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 3 min

    In a few decades, a torrent of new evidence and ideas about human evolution has allowed scientists to piece together a more detailed understanding of what went on thousands and even millions of years ago. We now know much more about the problems our ancestors faced, the solutions they found, and the trade-offs they made.Our species' unique capacity for culture began to evolve millions of years ago ... Read more

    R496,74

  • Audiobook

    The Ascent of Information

    Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm

    by Caleb Scharf ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 9 min

    **“Full of fascinating insights drawn from an impressive range of disciplines, The Ascent of Information casts the familiar and the foreign in a dramatic new light.” —Brian Greene, author of The Elegant UniverseYour information has a life of its own, and it’s using you to get what it wants.**One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry ... Read more

    R382,25

  • Audiobook

    Die Magie der Gemeinschaft

    Was uns mit Tieren und künstlichen Intelligenzen verbindet

    by Karsten Brensing ...
    Narrated by Karsten Kramer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 18 min

    KI wird unseren Arbeitsmarkt verändern, doch das ist nicht das Problem: Unser Sozialleben macht uns zum Menschen. Doch wenn unser bester Freund eine KI ist – haben wir dann noch eins? Karsten Brensing wirft einen Blick auf den Einzug von KI in die Mitte unserer Gesellschaft. Die Veränderungen werden vor allem auch unser Sozialleben betreffen. Tierisch glücklich sein in einer komplexen Welt Trotz ... Read more

    R491,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Rethinking Evolution

    The Revolution That's Hiding in Plain Sight

    by Gene Levinson ...
    Narrated by Jeremy Arthur ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 57 min

    Rethinking Evolution links Darwin's early insights to the molecular realm inside living cells. This updated evolutionary synthesis provides an accessible explanation for biological complexity that cuts through the confusion surrounding evolutionary theory in a practical way. In addition to a wide-ranging survey of proposed updates to the modern synthesis, this title provides extraordinary new ... Read more

    R362,95 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Human Extinction

    A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation

    by Émile P. Torres ...
    Narrated by Adam Barr ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 12 min

    This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existential risks."Many leading intellectuals agree that the risk of human extinction this century may be higher than at any point in our 300,000-year history as a species. This book provides insight on the key questions that inform this discussion, including ... Read more

    R592,30

  • Audiobook

    All These Worlds Are Yours

    The Scientific Search for Alien Life

    by Jon Willis ...
    Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 3 min

    Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth transfixed humans. In this fascinating book, astronomer Jon Willis explores the science of astrobiology and the possibility of locating other life in our own galaxy.Describing the most recent discoveries by space exploration missions, including the Kepler space telescope, the Mars Curiosity rover, and the New Horizons probe, ... Read more

    R324,72

  • Audiobook

    La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal (De un sapiens a un neandertal)

    by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga ...
    Narrated by Juan José Millás ...
    Series Audiobook Volumen - De un sapiens a un neandertal

    Unabridged

    6 hours 45 min

    El ingenio de Millás y la sabiduría de Arsuaga unidos para contar la vida como la mejor de las historiasUNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DE 2021 SEGÚN EL HUFFPOSTY LIBRO DEL VERANO SEGÚN TRENDENCIAS«Una maravilla. Un libro lleno de humor y de bondad. Sí, bondad. Un libro que busca entender el misterio de la vida.»Manuel Vilas«-Tú y yo podríamos asociarnos para hablar de la vida; levantaríamos un gran re. ... Read more

    R401,17

  • Audiobook

    What If the Dinosaurs Never Went Extinct?

    An Exploration of Alternative Evolutionary Timelines

    by Viruti Shivan ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Madison G ...
    Series series WHAT IF SERIES

    Unabridged

    26 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.An Exploration of Alternative Evolutionary TimelinesWhat if the mighty dinosaurs never disappeared? What would our world look like today? A Prehistoric Persistence provides an exhilarating deep-dive into these tantalizing questions. The book presents scientifically grounded theories intriguing possibilities and explores potential evolutionary scenarios ... Read more

    R190,93 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Tangled Tree

    A Radical New History of Life

    by David Quammen ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 48 min

    Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018.Our understanding of the ‘tree of life’, with powerful implications for human genetics, human health and our own human nature, has recently completely changed.This book is about a new method of telling the story of life on earth – through molecular phylogenetics. It involves a fairly simple method – the ... Read more

    R406,14

  • Audiobook

    Hidden Games

    The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behaviour

    by Moshe Hoffman, Erez Yoeli ...
    Narrated by Gary Tiedemann ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 41 min

    'Packed with fresh and clear insights that will change the way you think about the world' Uri Gneezy'One of those books that you pick up and then can't put down' Steve Stewart-Williams'This is a book I will come back to again and again' Nichola RaihaniHow game theory - the ultimate theory of rationality - explains irrational behaviour.In Hidden Games, MIT economists Moshe Hoffman an... ... Read more

    R611,41

  • Audiobook

    Saber-Toothed Tigers: The History and Legacy of the Most Famous Extinct Cat Species

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Daniel Houle ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 55 min

    Saber-toothed tigers were arguably the most fabled of all the Ice Age creatures. The fearsome beast has earned itself quite the reputation, and it has been referenced to, appeared in, and inspired unique characters in endless books, films, comics, and other pop culture mediums. For example, Marvel's Victor Creed, otherwise known as “Sabretooth,” is most known as Wolverine's nemesis, and he’s ... Read more

    R132,83 or Free with Kobo Plus