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The Beast Within

Humans as Animals

by Jessica Serra ...

Narrated by Emily Sutton-Smith ...

Unabridged

6 hours 44 min

How different from animals are we really?Are humans the only creatures who love, laugh, cry, possess morals, and wage war? In The Beast Within, scientific researcher and ethologist Jessica Serra upends the assumptions that underpin our very human hypothesis that we possess a superior place in the hierarchy of organisms on Earth. How did we come to think of our animality as standing in opposition ... Read more

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How different from animals are we really?Are humans the only creatures who love, laugh, cry, possess morals, and wage war? In The Beast Within, scientific researcher and ethologist Jessica Serra upends the assumptions that underpin our very human hypothesis that we possess a superior place in the hierarchy of organisms on Earth. How did we come to think of our animality as standing in opposition
... Read more
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Through a Glass Brightly

Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are

by David P. Barash ...

Narrated by Charles Constant ...

Unabridged

9 hours 3 min

In Through a Glass Brightly, noted scientist David P. Barash explores the process by which science has, throughout time, cut humanity "down to size," and how humanity has responded. A good paradigm is a tough thing to lose, especially when its replacement leaves us feeling more vulnerable and less special. And yet, as science has progressed, we find ourselves—like it or not—bereft of many of our ... Read more

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In Through a Glass Brightly, noted scientist David P. Barash explores the process by which science has, throughout time, cut humanity "down to size," and how humanity has responded. A good paradigm is a tough thing to lose, especially when its replacement leaves us feeling more vulnerable and less special. And yet, as science has progressed, we find ourselves—like it or not—bereft of many of our
... Read more
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Your Amazing Body

by Steve Laufmann, Howard Glicksman ...

Narrated by Dallas Nichols ...

Unabridged

4 hours 36 min

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 piano sonatas at night. Every minute your body choreographs a host of complex systems that are required for ... Read more

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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 piano sonatas at night. Every minute your body choreographs a host of complex systems that are required for
... Read more
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Science in the Soul

Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

by Richard Dawkins ...

Narrated by Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward, Gillian Somerscales ...

Unabridged

14 hours 40 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time.For decades, Richard Dawkins has been a brilliant scientific communicator, consistently illuminating the wonders of nature and ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time.For decades, Richard Dawkins has been a brilliant scientific communicator, consistently illuminating the wonders of nature and
... Read more
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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

Essays on Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould ...

Narrated by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ...

Unabridged

12 hours 43 min

For more than twenty-five years, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote a column called "The View of Life" for Natural History magazine. More than twenty entries from that column comprise this collection, which includes such essays as "Boyle's Law and Darwin's Details," "Brotherhood by Inversion (or, As the Worm Turns)," "Darwin's American Soulmate," "The Diet of Worms and Defenestration of Prague ... Read more

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For more than twenty-five years, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote a column called "The View of Life" for Natural History magazine. More than twenty entries from that column comprise this collection, which includes such essays as "Boyle's Law and Darwin's Details," "Brotherhood by Inversion (or, As the Worm Turns)," "Darwin's American Soulmate," "The Diet of Worms and Defenestration of Prague
... Read more
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Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch

by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Terry Pratchett ...

Narrated by Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs ...

Series Audiobook 3 - The Science of Discworld
Unabridged

11 hours 26 min

Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time ... Read more

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Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time
... Read more
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Die Evolution des Menschen

by Thomas Junker ...

Narrated by Robert Gregor Kühn ...

Unabridged

3 hours 56 min

Wie sind Menschen entstanden? Wer waren ihre Vorfahren? Warum gibt es überhaupt Menschen? Warum sehen die Menschen der verschiedenen Erdteile und Länder anders aus? Warum unterscheiden sich Frauen und Männer in Merkmalen wie Größe und Behaarung? Warum werden Menschen krank, warum sterben sie? Warum gibt es Kunst und Kultur? Beispielhaft zeigt Thomas Junker, wie erfolgreich die Evolutionsbiologie ... Read more

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Wie sind Menschen entstanden? Wer waren ihre Vorfahren? Warum gibt es überhaupt Menschen? Warum sehen die Menschen der verschiedenen Erdteile und Länder anders aus? Warum unterscheiden sich Frauen und Männer in Merkmalen wie Größe und Behaarung? Warum werden Menschen krank, warum sterben sie? Warum gibt es Kunst und Kultur? Beispielhaft zeigt Thomas Junker, wie erfolgreich die Evolutionsbiologie
... Read more
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Новая наука заколдованной вселенной. Антропология большей части человечества

by Маршалл Салинз ...

Narrated by Игорь Гмыза ...

Series series Культурная история
Unabridged

9 hours 34 min

С точки зрения западного человека, мы живем в секуляризованном — расколдованном — мире. Боги и духи, если и существуют, отделены от нашего — имманентного — мира и усланы в потусторонний — трансцендентный, оставив землю в распоряжении людей, вольных теперь создавать свои институты своими средствами по собственным стандартам. Однако бόльшую часть человеческой истории культуры людей были окружены ... Read more

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С точки зрения западного человека, мы живем в секуляризованном — расколдованном — мире. Боги и духи, если и существуют, отделены от нашего — имманентного — мира и усланы в потусторонний — трансцендентный, оставив землю в распоряжении людей, вольных теперь создавать свои институты своими средствами по собственным стандартам. Однако бόльшую часть человеческой истории культуры людей были окружены
... Read more
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Eine kurze Geschichte der Hunde: Der älteste Begleiter des Menschen

by Heiko Laufer ...

Narrated by Heiko Laufer ...

Unabridged

2 hours 17 min

Diese fesselnde Kulturgeschichte beleuchtet die faszinierende Mensch-Tier-Beziehung vom Wolf zum treuen Partner. Begleite unsere Vorfahren auf einer atmosphärischen Zeitreise, die ideal ist, um beim täglichen Spaziergang oder entspannten Pendeln völlig neue historische Perspektiven zu gewinnen.Erlebe hautnah, wie aus einer anfänglichen Zweckgemeinschaft am Lagerfeuer eine tiefe, emotionale Allianz ... Read more

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Diese fesselnde Kulturgeschichte beleuchtet die faszinierende Mensch-Tier-Beziehung vom Wolf zum treuen Partner. Begleite unsere Vorfahren auf einer atmosphärischen Zeitreise, die ideal ist, um beim täglichen Spaziergang oder entspannten Pendeln völlig neue historische Perspektiven zu gewinnen.Erlebe hautnah, wie aus einer anfänglichen Zweckgemeinschaft am Lagerfeuer eine tiefe, emotionale Allianz
... Read more
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Comment l’évolution a conduit des dinosaures aux oiseaux qui peuplent notre ciel

by Clément Tremel ...

Narrated by Clément Tremel ...

Unabridged

2 hours 9 min

Découvrez l'évolution fascinante qui a transformé de redoutables dinosaures théropodes en oiseaux de nos jardins. Idéale pour enrichir un trajet matinal ou une marche en forêt, cette enquête paléontologique captivante ravive les temps géologiques anciens.Loin d'être une marche programmée vers le vol, cette histoire naturelle révèle des adaptations surprenantes forgées par la survie. Laissez-vous ... Read more

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Découvrez l'évolution fascinante qui a transformé de redoutables dinosaures théropodes en oiseaux de nos jardins. Idéale pour enrichir un trajet matinal ou une marche en forêt, cette enquête paléontologique captivante ravive les temps géologiques anciens.Loin d'être une marche programmée vers le vol, cette histoire naturelle révèle des adaptations surprenantes forgées par la survie. Laissez-vous
... Read more
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Les chiens : Comment le loup est devenu le meilleur ami de l’humanité

by Rémi Sauvage ...

Narrated by Rémi Sauvage ...

Unabridged

2 hours 8 min

Plongez dans l'histoire fascinante de l'évolution animale qui a transformé le loup sauvage en notre fidèle compagnon. Idéal pour accompagner votre promenade quotidienne, ce récit scientifique retrace la naissance d'une alliance inter-espèces absolument unique. Des premières meutes préhistoriques aux foyers modernes, suivez les traces paléontologiques d'une domestication qui a bouleversé l'humanité ... Read more

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Plongez dans l'histoire fascinante de l'évolution animale qui a transformé le loup sauvage en notre fidèle compagnon. Idéal pour accompagner votre promenade quotidienne, ce récit scientifique retrace la naissance d'une alliance inter-espèces absolument unique. Des premières meutes préhistoriques aux foyers modernes, suivez les traces paléontologiques d'une domestication qui a bouleversé l'humanité
... Read more
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L’évolution : L’idée dangereuse qui explique tout le vivant

by Victor Bourdon ...

Narrated by Victor Bourdon ...

Unabridged

2 hours 12 min

La biologie de l'évolution bouleverse nos certitudes philosophiques en éclairant l'histoire du vivant. Idéal pour nourrir votre curiosité intellectuelle lors de vos trajets, ce récit captivant relie toutes les formes de vie par le fil de l'ascendance commune. La nature cesse d'être un simple panorama figé pour révéler un formidable écosystème en perpétuelle transformation.Que vous cherchiez une ... Read more

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La biologie de l'évolution bouleverse nos certitudes philosophiques en éclairant l'histoire du vivant. Idéal pour nourrir votre curiosité intellectuelle lors de vos trajets, ce récit captivant relie toutes les formes de vie par le fil de l'ascendance commune. La nature cesse d'être un simple panorama figé pour révéler un formidable écosystème en perpétuelle transformation.Que vous cherchiez une
... Read more
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Devenir humain : Du grand singe à nous, deux millions d’années d’évolution

by Constant Charrier ...

Narrated by Constant Charrier ...

Unabridged

2 hours 20 min

Suivez l'évolution biologique depuis nos ancêtres primates pour décrypter la fascinante histoire de notre espèce. Idéal pour enrichir votre esprit pendant vos trajets, ce récit immersif transforme l'anthropologie en une aventure captivante. Laissez-vous transporter par cette formidable mosaïque de transformations qui ont façonné notre nature.Loin du mythe d'une progression linéaire, cette ... Read more

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Suivez l'évolution biologique depuis nos ancêtres primates pour décrypter la fascinante histoire de notre espèce. Idéal pour enrichir votre esprit pendant vos trajets, ce récit immersif transforme l'anthropologie en une aventure captivante. Laissez-vous transporter par cette formidable mosaïque de transformations qui ont façonné notre nature.Loin du mythe d'une progression linéaire, cette
... Read more
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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

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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
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Extinciones masivas: Las cinco veces que la vida en la Tierra estuvo a punto de desaparecer

by Jordi Mayoral ...

Narrated by Jordi Mayoral ...

Unabridged

2 hours 25 min

Comprende los cataclismos biológicos que moldearon la evolución y cómo la biosfera burló la extinción definitiva. Ideal para tu viaje diario o tus momentos de enfoque profundo, este recorrido científico fascinante revela los secretos ocultos en las rocas. Disfruta de una experiencia auditiva inmersiva que traduce millones de años de historia terrestre en una narración clara y cautivadora.Más que ... Read more

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Comprende los cataclismos biológicos que moldearon la evolución y cómo la biosfera burló la extinción definitiva. Ideal para tu viaje diario o tus momentos de enfoque profundo, este recorrido científico fascinante revela los secretos ocultos en las rocas. Disfruta de una experiencia auditiva inmersiva que traduce millones de años de historia terrestre en una narración clara y cautivadora.Más que
... Read more
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Global Brain

The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century

by Howard Bloom ...

Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

Unabridged

10 hours 51 min

In this extraordinary follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Lucifer Principle, Howard Bloom—one of today’s preeminent thinkers—offers us a bold rewrite of the evolutionary saga. He shows how plants and animals (including humans) have evolved together as components of a worldwide learning machine. He describes the network of life on Earth as one that is, in fact, a “complex adaptive system,” a ... Read more

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In this extraordinary follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Lucifer Principle, Howard Bloom—one of today’s preeminent thinkers—offers us a bold rewrite of the evolutionary saga. He shows how plants and animals (including humans) have evolved together as components of a worldwide learning machine. He describes the network of life on Earth as one that is, in fact, a “complex adaptive system,” a
... Read more
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Pax and the Path of Purpose

Volume 5 of Do Unto Earth

by Penelope Jean Hayes, Carole Serene Borgens ...

Narrated by Penelope Jean Hayes ...

Series Audiobook 5 - The Do Unto Earth Series
Unabridged

2 hours 8 min

How can we know what our life purpose is? Is there a “life cord” that connects us to other souls? Where do our pets go when they die? Can each person’s self-empowerment create the global power necessary to change the world? All this and more is answered in this extraordinary conversation.Pax self-introduces as the “Divine Universe” and “God being” and has important information to share with ... Read more

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How can we know what our life purpose is? Is there a “life cord” that connects us to other souls? Where do our pets go when they die? Can each person’s self-empowerment create the global power necessary to change the world? All this and more is answered in this extraordinary conversation.Pax self-introduces as the “Divine Universe” and “God being” and has important information to share with
... Read more
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Survival

Evolutionary Rules for Intelligent Species Survival

by Samuel Layne, Sherry Wang, Illustrator ...

Narrated by Nathaniel Ascher ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Survival
Unabridged

20 hours 40 min

FINALIST: (1) 2020 (14TH) ANNUAL NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS; (2) 2021 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDSHow different might the history of our species have been had our hunter-gatherer forebears failed to migrate out of Africa in time to survive 70,000 years ago when threatened by extinction due to climate change brought on by the last ice age? Simply put, we would not exist. Now, similarly ... Read more

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FINALIST: (1) 2020 (14TH) ANNUAL NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS; (2) 2021 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDSHow different might the history of our species have been had our hunter-gatherer forebears failed to migrate out of Africa in time to survive 70,000 years ago when threatened by extinction due to climate change brought on by the last ice age? Simply put, we would not exist. Now, similarly
... Read more
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Behold the Mighty Dinosaur

by John Kricher ...

Narrated by John Kricher ...

Unabridged

8 hours 21 min

Dinosaurs-the word means "fearfully great reptile"-have been a source of fascination ever since their discovery in England early in the nineteenth century. Aside from birds, all dinosaurs have been extinct for 65 million years, yet, before then, they dominated Earth's terrestrial habitats for about 160 million years, far longer than primates, or humans, have been around. Dinosaurs present the ... Read more

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Dinosaurs-the word means "fearfully great reptile"-have been a source of fascination ever since their discovery in England early in the nineteenth century. Aside from birds, all dinosaurs have been extinct for 65 million years, yet, before then, they dominated Earth's terrestrial habitats for about 160 million years, far longer than primates, or humans, have been around. Dinosaurs present the
... Read more
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Before the Dawn

Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

by Nicholas Wade ...

Narrated by Alan Sklar ...

Unabridged

12 hours 49 min

Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, critically acclaimed New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade tells a bold and provocative new story of the history of our ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature.Just in the last three years a flood of new scientific findings—driven by revelations discovered in the human genome—has provided compelling new answers ... Read more

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Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, critically acclaimed New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade tells a bold and provocative new story of the history of our ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature.Just in the last three years a flood of new scientific findings—driven by revelations discovered in the human genome—has provided compelling new answers
... Read more
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The Sleepless Ape

The Story of Sleep in Human Evolution

by David R. Samson ...

Narrated by David R. Samson ...

Unabridged

11 hours 51 min

How the unique sleep habits of early humans fostered survival, innovation, and social evolution—and how this evolutionary legacy holds insights into how we sleep today.Despite sleep’s critical role in maintaining health and cognitive function, humans sleep less than any other primate. The Sleepless Ape reveals the reasons for this evolutionary paradox, showing how our unique sleep patterns evolved ... Read more

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How the unique sleep habits of early humans fostered survival, innovation, and social evolution—and how this evolutionary legacy holds insights into how we sleep today.Despite sleep’s critical role in maintaining health and cognitive function, humans sleep less than any other primate. The Sleepless Ape reveals the reasons for this evolutionary paradox, showing how our unique sleep patterns evolved
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Beginnings

How Pregnancy, Birth, and Motherhood Shaped Our Species

by Tesla Monson, PhD ...

Narrated by Tesla Monson, PhD ...

Unabridged

9 hours 45 min

Eve meets Who We Are and How We Got Here in this exciting new examination of human evolution that puts motherhood at the center of the story.Seven million years ago, a pregnant, apelike ancestor to the whole of our species found a secluded space on the forest floor and began her labor. An hour or two later, her baby emerged into the world, alert and able to hold on to their mother’s fur within ... Read more

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Eve meets Who We Are and How We Got Here in this exciting new examination of human evolution that puts motherhood at the center of the story.Seven million years ago, a pregnant, apelike ancestor to the whole of our species found a secluded space on the forest floor and began her labor. An hour or two later, her baby emerged into the world, alert and able to hold on to their mother’s fur within
... Read more
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Solving Modern Problems With a Stone-Age Brain

Human Evolution and the Seven Fundamental Motives

by Douglas T. Kenrick, PhD, David E. Lundberg-Kenrick ...

Narrated by Chris Sorensen ...

Series series APA Life Tools
Unabridged

8 hours 48 min

Sharing stories and advice rooted in the science of evolutionary psychology, father and son authors Doug Kenrick and David Lundberg-Kenrick pinpoint the dangers of stone-age problem solving for our lives today, and present a new, systematic way to survive and be happy in the modern world.Over millennia, we humans have evolved a set of motivational systems to help us solve the seven basic problems ... Read more

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Sharing stories and advice rooted in the science of evolutionary psychology, father and son authors Doug Kenrick and David Lundberg-Kenrick pinpoint the dangers of stone-age problem solving for our lives today, and present a new, systematic way to survive and be happy in the modern world.Over millennia, we humans have evolved a set of motivational systems to help us solve the seven basic problems
... Read more
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Father Time

A Natural History of Men and Babies

by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy ...

Narrated by Katherine Fenton ...

Unabridged

13 hours 47 min

This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton gives a sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babiesIt has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venerable division of labor: mammalian males evolved to ... Read more

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This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton gives a sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babiesIt has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venerable division of labor: mammalian males evolved to
... Read more

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