Genetic History

Liste de produits
    • The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
    • Auteur(s): Daniel S. Milo
    • Narrateur(s): Qarie Marshall
    • Durée: 8 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Why is the genome of a salamander 40 times larger than that of a human? Why does the avocado tree produce a million flowers and only a hundred fruits? Why, in short, is there so much waste in nature? Find out....

    Prix courant: 19,20 $

    • Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
    • Auteur(s): Nicholas Wade
    • Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
    • Durée: 12 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • 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 to many long-standing mysteries....

    Prix courant: 23,38 $

    • The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
    • Auteur(s): Sean B. Carroll
    • Narrateur(s): Patrick Lawlor
    • Durée: 7 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-01-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • One of the most important revelations about the natural world is that everything is regulated....

    Prix courant: 17,81 $

    • Why a Balance Between Cooperation and Competition Is Vital to Humanity
    • Auteur(s): Mark Bertness
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Bowlby
    • Durée: 9 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Offering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark Bertness argues that human beings and their civilization are the products of the same self-organization....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $

    • Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
    • Auteur(s): Lyudmila Trut, Lee Alan Dugatkin
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Hempel
    • Durée: 7 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-09-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog....

    Prix courant: 18,92 $

    • The Hidden History of the Human Race
    • Auteur(s): Michael A. Cremo, Richard L. Thompson
    • Narrateur(s): Laura Lee
    • Durée: 2 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 1999-12-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • Discover an alternate history to the human race as the authors of Forbidden Archeology....

    Prix courant: 12,47 $

    • How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
    • Auteur(s): George M. Church, Ed Regis
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Lerman
    • Durée: 10 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
    • Auteur(s): Jerry A. Coyne
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
    • Durée: 11 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-07-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science is reliable, while that of religion leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions....

    Prix courant: 18,92 $

    • Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
    • Auteur(s): Sean B. Carroll
    • Narrateur(s): Sean B. Carroll
    • Durée: 4 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • In this audiobook, acclaimed writer and biologist Sean B. Carroll narrates the rollicking, awe-inspiring story of the surprising power of chance in our lives and the world....

    Prix courant: 16,11 $

    • An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be
    • Auteur(s): Dr. Deena Emera
    • Narrateur(s): Deena Emera
    • Durée: 10 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause—A Brief History of the Female Body is a fascinating science book explaining the mysteries of the female body through an evolutionary lens....

    Prix courant: 21,92 $

    • A Natural History of Men and Babies
    • Auteur(s): Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
    • Narrateur(s): Katherine Fenton
    • Durée: 13 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • 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 babies.

    Prix courant: 26,27 $

    • How the Human Brain Shaped the Universe as We Know It
    • Auteur(s): Miguel Nicolelis
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Durée: 14 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Renowned neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis introduces listeners to a revolutionary new theory of how the human brain evolved to become an organic computer without rival in the known universe....

    Prix courant: 20,13 $

    • A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution
    • Auteur(s): Anurag Agrawal
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen R. Thorne
    • Durée: 8 h
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Monarchs and Milkweed, Anurag Agrawal presents a vivid investigation into how the monarch butterfly has evolved closely alongside the milkweed and how this inextricable and intimate relationship has been like an arms race over the millennia....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • 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 Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
    • Auteur(s): Edward J. Larson
    • Narrateur(s): Brian Troxell
    • Durée: 10 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the 20th century's most contentious dramas: the Scopes trial....

    Prix courant: 28,27 $

    • Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
    • Auteur(s): Lucy Cooke
    • Narrateur(s): Lucy Cooke
    • Durée: 10 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 évaluations
    • In The Truth About Animals, Lucy Cooke takes us on a worldwide journey to meet everyone from a Colombian hippo castrator to a Chinese panda porn peddler, all to lay bare the secret - and often hilarious - habits of the animal kingdom....

    Prix courant: 28,27 $

    • Genes, Race, and Human History
    • Auteur(s): Nicholas Wade
    • Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
    • Durée: 10 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-05-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • 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 story. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory....

    Prix courant: 17,48 $

    • A Moral History of the Genetic Age
    • Auteur(s): Matthew Cobb
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Jameson
    • Durée: 13 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-11-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In 2018, scientists manipulated the DNA of human babies for the first time. As biologist and historian Matthew Cobb shows in As Gods, this achievement was one many scientists have feared from the start of the genetic age....

    Prix courant: 32,31 $

    • How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters
    • Auteur(s): Marlene Zuk
    • Narrateur(s): Jaime Lamchick
    • Durée: 9 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • For centuries, people have been returning to the same tired nature-versus-nurture debate, trying to determine what we learn and what we inherit. In Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test, biologist Marlene Zuk goes beyond the binary....

    Prix courant: 23,31 $

    • Mediterranean and Middle Eastern People in the European Diaspora
    • Auteur(s): Joshua Robbin Marks
    • Narrateur(s): Joshua Robbin Marks
    • Durée: 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-04-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • From the author of Seed of Israel: DNA Guide to Tracing Your Jewish Ancestry comes this great dive into the history of Ashkenazi Jews....

    Prix courant: 4,95 $