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A Polar Affair

Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins

de Lloyd Spencer Davis ...

Narrado por Raphael Corkhill ...

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13 hora 9 minutos

A captivating blend of true adventure and natural history by one of today’s leading penguin experts and Antarctic explorersGeorge Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were ... Leer más

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A captivating blend of true adventure and natural history by one of today’s leading penguin experts and Antarctic explorersGeorge Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were
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El hombre prehistórico es también una mujer

Una historia de la invisibilidad de las mujeres

de Marylène Patou-Mathis ...

Narrado por Charo Soria ...

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7 hora 23 minutos

Una deslumbrante investigación hasta los orígenes del ser humano para sacar a la mujer de la caverna.«Un ensayo tan erudito como reivindicativo. [...] Patou-Mathis muestra que el cambio de la mirada sobre la prehistoria no depende solo de la ciencia, sino de la perspectiva.»Guillermo Altares, BabeliaNo, las mujeres prehistóricas no se pasaban el día barriendo la cueva y cuidando de los hijos ... Leer más

$20.99 USD

Una deslumbrante investigación hasta los orígenes del ser humano para sacar a la mujer de la caverna.«Un ensayo tan erudito como reivindicativo. [...] Patou-Mathis muestra que el cambio de la mirada sobre la prehistoria no depende solo de la ciencia, sino de la perspectiva.»Guillermo Altares, BabeliaNo, las mujeres prehistóricas no se pasaban el día barriendo la cueva y cuidando de los hijos
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs

An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

de Riley Black ...

Narrado por Christina Delaine ...

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8 hora 53 minutos

In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks listeners through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life’s losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks listeners through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life’s losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the
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Accidental Mind, The

How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God

de David J. Linden ...

Narrado por Ray Porter ...

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7 hora 56 minutos

You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elegant design in reverent tones.To which this audiobook says: Pure nonsense. In a work at once deeply learned and wonderfully accessible, the neuroscientist David Linden counters the widespread assumption ... Leer más

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You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elegant design in reverent tones.To which this audiobook says: Pure nonsense. In a work at once deeply learned and wonderfully accessible, the neuroscientist David Linden counters the widespread assumption
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Metazoa

Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

de Peter Godfrey-Smith ...

Narrado por Peter Godfrey-Smith, Mitch Riley ...

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9 hora 49 minutos

**This program is read by Peter Godfrey-Smith with Mitch Riley.The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness.**Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms, whose rooted bodies, intricate geometry, and flower-like appendages are ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

**This program is read by Peter Godfrey-Smith with Mitch Riley.The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness.**Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms, whose rooted bodies, intricate geometry, and flower-like appendages are
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Origin of Life

What Everyone Needs to Know

de David W. Deamer ...

Narrado por David de Vries ...

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3 hora 2 minutos

It seems likely that scientists will someday discover how life can emerge on habitable planets like the early Earth and Mars.In Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know®, David W. Deamer has written a comprehensive guide to the origin of life that is organized in three sections. The first section addresses questions such as: Where do the atoms of life come from? How old is Earth? What was the ... Leer más

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It seems likely that scientists will someday discover how life can emerge on habitable planets like the early Earth and Mars.In Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know®, David W. Deamer has written a comprehensive guide to the origin of life that is organized in three sections. The first section addresses questions such as: Where do the atoms of life come from? How old is Earth? What was the
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Jaws

The Story of a Hidden Epidemic

de Sandra Kahn, Paul R. Erhlich ...

Narrado por Gregg Rizzo ...

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4 hora 34 minutos

There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic challenges but also difficulties with breathing. Modern orthodontics has persuaded us that braces and oral devices can correct these problems. While teeth can certainly be straightened, what about the underlying causes of ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic challenges but also difficulties with breathing. Modern orthodontics has persuaded us that braces and oral devices can correct these problems. While teeth can certainly be straightened, what about the underlying causes of
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Growing Up Human

The Evolution of Childhood

de Brenna Hassett ...

Narrado por Laurel Lefkow ...

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11 hora 40 minutos

Bloomsbury presents Growing Up Human by Brenna Hassett, read by Laurel Lefkow.Brings the science of biological anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experienced – childhood.Tracking deep into our evolutionary history, anthropological science has begun to unravel one particular feature that sets us apart from the many, many animals ... Leer más

$21.99 USD

Bloomsbury presents Growing Up Human by Brenna Hassett, read by Laurel Lefkow.Brings the science of biological anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experienced – childhood.Tracking deep into our evolutionary history, anthropological science has begun to unravel one particular feature that sets us apart from the many, many animals
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Homo Mysterious

Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature

de David P. Barash ...

Narrado por Joe Barrett ...

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11 hora 27 minutos

For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P. Barash, there are even more things that we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex the best minds in biology. Paradoxically, many of these mysteries are very close to home, involving some of the most personal aspects of being human.Homo Mysterious examines a number of these evolutionary mysteries, exploring things ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P. Barash, there are even more things that we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex the best minds in biology. Paradoxically, many of these mysteries are very close to home, involving some of the most personal aspects of being human.Homo Mysterious examines a number of these evolutionary mysteries, exploring things
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Ève: 200 millions d'années d'évolution au féminin

de Cat Bohannon ...

Narrado por Léonore Boissière ...

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15 hora 35 minutos

"Les corps femelles ne sont pas de simples corps mâles avec des “trucs en plus” (graisse, seins, utérus). Être sexué s'insinue dans toutes les caractéristiques essentielles de notre corps de mammifère, ainsi que dans la vie que nous menons à l'intérieur de ce corps, que nous soyons une souris ou un être humain." Jusqu'à récemment, les scientifiques se sont contentés d'étudier la norme mâle et nous ... Leer más

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"Les corps femelles ne sont pas de simples corps mâles avec des “trucs en plus” (graisse, seins, utérus). Être sexué s'insinue dans toutes les caractéristiques essentielles de notre corps de mammifère, ainsi que dans la vie que nous menons à l'intérieur de ce corps, que nous soyons une souris ou un être humain." Jusqu'à récemment, les scientifiques se sont contentés d'étudier la norme mâle et nous
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On The Origin Of Species

de Charles Darwin ...

Narrado por Richard Dawkins ...

Abreviado

5 hora 52 minutos

"On the Origin of Species must be high on any serious list of the most important and influential books ever written. On its first publication in 1859, Thomas Henry Huxley exclaimed 'How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that.' Charles Darwin's revolutionary idea is, indeed, an astoundingly simple one, especially when you measure it against the magnitude of what it explains - every fact ... Leer más

$22.99 USD

"On the Origin of Species must be high on any serious list of the most important and influential books ever written. On its first publication in 1859, Thomas Henry Huxley exclaimed 'How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that.' Charles Darwin's revolutionary idea is, indeed, an astoundingly simple one, especially when you measure it against the magnitude of what it explains - every fact
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Armas, gérmenes y acero

Breve historia de la humanidad en los últimos trece mil años

de Jared Diamond ...

Narrado por John Alex Toro ...

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23 hora 36 minutos

Armas, gérmenes y acero, Premio Pulitzer 1998, cuestiona la prepotente visión occidental del progreso humano y nos ayuda a comprender cómo el mundo moderno y sus desigualdades han llegado a ser como son.Hace 13.000 años la evolución de las distintas sociedades humanas comenzó a tomar rumbos diferentes. La temprana domesticación de animales y el cultivo de plantas silvestres en el Creciente Fértil, ... Leer más

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Armas, gérmenes y acero, Premio Pulitzer 1998, cuestiona la prepotente visión occidental del progreso humano y nos ayuda a comprender cómo el mundo moderno y sus desigualdades han llegado a ser como son.Hace 13.000 años la evolución de las distintas sociedades humanas comenzó a tomar rumbos diferentes. La temprana domesticación de animales y el cultivo de plantas silvestres en el Creciente Fértil,
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Why is Sex Fun?

The Evolution of Human Sexuality

de Jared Diamond ...

Narrado por L.J. Ganser ...

Series series Science Masters
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5 hora 17 minutos

To us humans the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with all the other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives. How did that come to be?Just count our bizarre ways. We are the only social species to insist on carrying out sex privately. Stranger yet, we have sex at any time, even when the female can't be fertilized (for example, because she is already pregnant, ... Leer más

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To us humans the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with all the other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives. How did that come to be?Just count our bizarre ways. We are the only social species to insist on carrying out sex privately. Stranger yet, we have sex at any time, even when the female can't be fertilized (for example, because she is already pregnant,
... Leer más
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A Better Ape

The Evolution of the Moral Mind and How it Made us Human

de Victor Kumar, Richmond Campbell ...

Narrado por Chris Henry Coffey ...

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11 hora 57 minutos

Humans are moral creatures.Among all life on Earth, we alone experience rich moral emotions, follow complex rules governing how we treat one another, and engage in moral dialogue. But how did human morality evolve? And can humans become morally evolved?In A Better Ape, Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell draw on the latest research in the biological and social sciences to explain the key role that ... Leer más

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Humans are moral creatures.Among all life on Earth, we alone experience rich moral emotions, follow complex rules governing how we treat one another, and engage in moral dialogue. But how did human morality evolve? And can humans become morally evolved?In A Better Ape, Victor Kumar and Richmond Campbell draw on the latest research in the biological and social sciences to explain the key role that
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L'evoluzione è ovunque

de Marco Ferrari, Marco Ferrari ...

Narrado por Gabriele Calindri ...

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9 hora 2 minutos

Anche se per molti rimane chiusa nei laboratori e negli articoli scientifici, difficile ed esoterica, La teoria darwiniana dell'evoluzione – una delle intuizioni più rivoluzionarie nella storia dell'uomo – è ovunque: e in tutto il pianeta, addirittura nell'intero universo. Con essa possiamo interpretare quello che vediamo attorno a noi e usarla come strumento: per salvare vite e disegnare ... Leer más

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Anche se per molti rimane chiusa nei laboratori e negli articoli scientifici, difficile ed esoterica, La teoria darwiniana dell'evoluzione – una delle intuizioni più rivoluzionarie nella storia dell'uomo – è ovunque: e in tutto il pianeta, addirittura nell'intero universo. Con essa possiamo interpretare quello che vediamo attorno a noi e usarla come strumento: per salvare vite e disegnare
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L’Amore oltre i vincoli dell’ego

de Marco Ferrini ...

Narrado por Marco Ferrini ...

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2 hora 39 minutos

Conoscere se stessi è la meta, ma è anche l’inizio del viaggio della vita.Vivere un senso di completezza e soddisfazione, ispirando altri a fare altrettanto; imparare ad amare; superare le rigide barriere delle relazioni egoiche per giungere a uno scambio profondo, autentico e costruttivo: questi alcuni degli affascinanti temi sviluppati in questo ascolto.La meta del viaggio è ritrovare la propria ... Leer más

$9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Conoscere se stessi è la meta, ma è anche l’inizio del viaggio della vita.Vivere un senso di completezza e soddisfazione, ispirando altri a fare altrettanto; imparare ad amare; superare le rigide barriere delle relazioni egoiche per giungere a uno scambio profondo, autentico e costruttivo: questi alcuni degli affascinanti temi sviluppati in questo ascolto.La meta del viaggio è ritrovare la propria
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Cognitive Gadgets

The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

de Cecilia Heyes ...

Narrado por Esther Wane ...

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7 hora 34 minutos

How did human minds become so different from those of other animals? What accounts for our capacity to understand the way the physical world works, to think ourselves into the minds of others, to gossip, read, tell stories about the past, and imagine the future? These questions are not new: they have been debated by philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, evolutionists, and neurobiologists ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

How did human minds become so different from those of other animals? What accounts for our capacity to understand the way the physical world works, to think ourselves into the minds of others, to gossip, read, tell stories about the past, and imagine the future? These questions are not new: they have been debated by philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, evolutionists, and neurobiologists
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A Troublesome Inheritance

Genes, Race, and Human History

de Nicholas Wade ...

Narrado por Alan Sklar ...

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10 hora 48 minutos

Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human storyFewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human storyFewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished
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Monarchs and Milkweed

A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution

de Anurag Agrawal ...

Narrado por Stephen R. Thorne ...

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8 hora

Monarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much more to the monarch than its distinctive presence and mythic journeying. In Monarchs and Milkweed, Anurag Agrawal presents a vivid investigation into how the monarch butterfly has evolved closely alongside the ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

Monarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much more to the monarch than its distinctive presence and mythic journeying. In Monarchs and Milkweed, Anurag Agrawal presents a vivid investigation into how the monarch butterfly has evolved closely alongside the
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The Goodness Paradox

The Strange Relationship Between Peace and Violence in Human Evolution

de Richard Wrangham ...

Narrado por Michael Page ...

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11 hora 44 minutos

Throughout history even as daily life has exhibited calm and tolerance war has never been far away, and even within societies violence can be a threat. The Goodness Paradox gives a new and powerful argument for how and why this uncanny combination of peacefulness and violence crystallized after our ancestors acquired language in Africa a quarter of a million years ago. Words allowed the sharing of ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

Throughout history even as daily life has exhibited calm and tolerance war has never been far away, and even within societies violence can be a threat. The Goodness Paradox gives a new and powerful argument for how and why this uncanny combination of peacefulness and violence crystallized after our ancestors acquired language in Africa a quarter of a million years ago. Words allowed the sharing of
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Происхождение вкусов: Как любовь к еде сделала нас людьми

de Роб Данн, Моника Санчес ...

Narrado por Елена Суворова ...

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7 hora 42 minutos

Природа, как говорят, приглашает нас к столу с помощью аппетита и вознаграждает вкусом. Но что именно представляют собой вкусы? Почему одни из них нам приятны, а другие нет? «Происхождение вкусов» —  в высшей степени увлекательное погружение в наваристую гущу этих вопросов. Щедро сдобрив повествование столовыми ложками искренности и остроумия, Роб Данн и Моника Санчес предлагают новаторский взгляд ... Leer más

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Природа, как говорят, приглашает нас к столу с помощью аппетита и вознаграждает вкусом. Но что именно представляют собой вкусы? Почему одни из них нам приятны, а другие нет? «Происхождение вкусов» —  в высшей степени увлекательное погружение в наваристую гущу этих вопросов. Щедро сдобрив повествование столовыми ложками искренности и остроумия, Роб Данн и Моника Санчес предлагают новаторский взгляд
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What If Dinosaurs Came Back to Life? - For Sleep

de What If For Sleep ...

Narrado por Digital Voice Frank E ...

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42 minutos

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What if dinosaurs suddenly returned to modern Earth? This scientifically rigorous exploration examines why our world would prove fatally incompatible with Mesozoic life. Atmospheric oxygen at 21% versus Cretaceous 30% compromises their metabolism. Global temperatures 7-13 degrees cooler than their era triggers hypothermia. Modern pathogens with 66 ... Leer más

$3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What if dinosaurs suddenly returned to modern Earth? This scientifically rigorous exploration examines why our world would prove fatally incompatible with Mesozoic life. Atmospheric oxygen at 21% versus Cretaceous 30% compromises their metabolism. Global temperatures 7-13 degrees cooler than their era triggers hypothermia. Modern pathogens with 66
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Animal Madness

How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, Gorillas on Drugs, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves

de Laurel Braitman ...

Narrado por Madeleine Maby ...

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11 hora 37 minutos

****“Science Friday” Summer Reading Pick****Discover magazine Top 5 Summer Reads****People magazine Best Summer Reads**“A lovely, big-hearted book…brimming with compassion and the tales of the many, many humans who devote their days to making animals well” (The New York Times).**Have you ever wondered if your dog might be a bit depressed? How about heartbroken or homesick? Animal Madness takes ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

****“Science Friday” Summer Reading Pick****Discover magazine Top 5 Summer Reads****People magazine Best Summer Reads**“A lovely, big-hearted book…brimming with compassion and the tales of the many, many humans who devote their days to making animals well” (The New York Times).**Have you ever wondered if your dog might be a bit depressed? How about heartbroken or homesick? Animal Madness takes
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Darwin's Backyard

How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory

de James T. Costa ...

Narrado por Sean Runnette ...

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14 hora 36 minutos

James T. Costa takes listeners on a journey from Darwin's youth and travels on the HMS Beagle to Down House, his bustling home of forty years. To test his insights into evolution, Darwin devised an astonishing array of hands-on experiments using his garden and greenhouse, surrounding meadows and woodlands, even taking over the cellar, study, yard, and hallways of his home-turned-field-station. ... Leer más

$35.99 USD

James T. Costa takes listeners on a journey from Darwin's youth and travels on the HMS Beagle to Down House, his bustling home of forty years. To test his insights into evolution, Darwin devised an astonishing array of hands-on experiments using his garden and greenhouse, surrounding meadows and woodlands, even taking over the cellar, study, yard, and hallways of his home-turned-field-station.
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