Biology Genetics

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    • Auteur(s): Charles Darwin
    • Narrateur(s): Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Durée: 17 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution now forms the basis for all the life sciences, but it ignited widespread controversy upon its 1859 publication. The idea that humans and animals might have evolved from a common source came as a shock to readers at the time....

    Prix courant: 32,00 $

    • How Morality Evolved
    • Auteur(s): Frans de Waal
    • Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
    • Durée: 6 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-07-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits....

    Prix courant: 22,22 $

    • The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
    • Auteur(s): Michael Marshall
    • Narrateur(s): Ciaran Saward
    • Durée: 10 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In The Genesis Quest, Michael Marshall shows how the quest to understand life's beginning is also a journey to discover the true nature of life, and by extension our place in the universe....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • The Lifelong Impact of Early Life Adversity - and How to Break the Cycle
    • Auteur(s): Daniel P. Keating
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Durée: 6 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Early adversity happens in all levels of society, but as income gaps widen, social inequality and fear of the future have become the new predators; in Born Anxious, Daniel P. Keating demonstrates how we can finally break the cycle....

    Prix courant: 25,00 $

    • A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World
    • Auteur(s): Dan Riskin
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Riskin
    • Durée: 5 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-03-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin explains, it's also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one....

    Prix courant: 35,18 $

    • Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness
    • Auteur(s): Joan Roughgarden
    • Narrateur(s): Carrington MacDuffie
    • Durée: 8 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-09-03
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Are selfishness and individuality basic to biological nature? Does a "selfish gene" create universial sexual conflict? Perhaps not....

    Prix courant: 20,20 $

    • When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Adam Hart
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Hart
    • Durée: 9 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Unfit for Purpose, biologist and broadcaster Adam Hart explores the mismatch between our fundamental biology and the modern world we have created....

    Prix courant: 19,12 $

    • A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
    • Auteur(s): Nathan H. Lents
    • Narrateur(s): L.J. Ganser
    • Durée: 7 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 évaluations
    • We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often - 200 times more often than a dog does? Find out more....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • Cheating and Deception in the Living World
    • Auteur(s): Lixing Sun
    • Narrateur(s): Jason Vu
    • Durée: 8 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-04-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Nature is rife with cheating. Possums play possum, feigning death to cheat predators. Crows cry wolf to scare off rivals. Amphibians and reptiles are inveterate impostors. Even genes and cells cheat....

    Prix courant: 26,00 $

    • The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause
    • Auteur(s): Susan Mattern
    • Narrateur(s): Jennifer Woodward
    • Durée: 15 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The Slow Moon Climbs casts menopause, at last, in the positive light it deserves - not only as an essential life stage, but also as a key factor in the history of human flourishing....

    Prix courant: 20,15 $

    • Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution
    • Auteur(s): Scott Solomon
    • Narrateur(s): Donald Corren
    • Durée: 5 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-10-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this intriguing book, evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon draws on the explosion of discoveries in recent years to examine the future evolution of our species....

    Prix courant: 32,41 $

    • How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
    • Auteur(s): Peter M. Hoffman
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Hodgson
    • Durée: 9 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-02-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Part history, part cutting-edge science, part philosophy, Life’s Ratchet takes us from ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern nanotechnology to tell the story of our quest for the machinery of life....

    Prix courant: 25,00 $

    • The Science of Beauty
    • Auteur(s): Nancy Etcoff
    • Narrateur(s): Donna Postel
    • Durée: 10 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argues that beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminism - it's in our biology....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
    • Auteur(s): Thor Hanson
    • Narrateur(s): Stacy Carolan
    • Durée: 6 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid, biologist Thor Hanson tells the remarkable story of how plants and animals are responding to climate change: adjusting, evolving, and sometimes dying out....

    Prix courant: 25,24 $

    • The Story of the Genetic Revolution
    • Auteur(s): James D. Watson, Andrew Berry, Kevin Davies
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Cowley
    • Durée: 19 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-08-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • This is the most comprehensive and authoritative exploration of DNA's impact - practical, social, and ethical - on our society and our world....

    Prix courant: 32,05 $

    • A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
    • Auteur(s): Joseph Jebelli
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Eyre
    • Durée: 8 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-07-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • This is How the Mind Changed, the extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved…and is still evolving....

    Prix courant: 29,13 $

    • What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
    • Auteur(s): Rob Dunn
    • Narrateur(s): Donald Chang
    • Durée: 8 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which we have tried to use to seize control of life and bend the planet to our will. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile....

    Prix courant: 29,13 $

    • The Epic History of Our Noble Companion
    • Auteur(s): Wendy Williams
    • Narrateur(s): Angela Brazil
    • Durée: 11 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-04-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Horses have a story to tell - one of resilience, sociability, and intelligence and partnership with human beings. Journalist and equestrienne Wendy Williams brings that story brilliantly to life....

    Prix courant: 18,92 $

    • What They Didn't Teach You in Biology
    • Auteur(s): Rob Stadler
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Hoff
    • Durée: 6 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • For more than 150 years, continuous debate has swirled around the topic of evolution. From Darwin to Dawkins, extensive scientific evidence has been presented for evolution, yet almost half of contemporary society still isn’t convinced....

    Prix courant: 25,00 $

    • Auteur(s): Richard Leakey
    • Narrateur(s): John Curless
    • Durée: 6 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The Origin of Humankind is Richard Leakey's personal view of the development of Homo sapiens. At the heart of his new picture of evolution is the introduction of a heretical notion: Once the first apes walked upright, the evolution of modern humans became possible and inevitable....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $