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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441769 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Aliens are Already Among UsAuthor: Martin K EttingtonNarrator: Martin K. EttingtonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 1 hour 50 minutesRelease date: March 5, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: The focus of this book is on Aliens having visited or living on this Earth. There is lots of evidence that not only are Aliens on Earth during the present, but have been here for thousands if not millions of years. There are lots of stories and some good evidence that this is all true. Even today there are videos of alien craft, and stories in the news about our government still studying and reporting on Aliens visiting us. âą What is this evidence of Aliens living on the Earth in the past and currently? âą And where do we separate the facts from the fiction? âą What technologies might these Aliens have? âą And how do these beings interact with our civilization? Lots of information is provided here to help better understand who the aliens are, how many types we know of, and how it might be possible for them to stay hidden on the Earth for thousands of years. Hope your find all this information interesting and it provides you with some food for thought.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424917 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual DifferenceAuthor: Richard O. PrumNarrator: Graham WintonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 56 minutesRelease date: December 12, 2023Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: The idea that gender is a performanceâa tenet of queer feminist theory since the 1990sâhas spread from college classrooms to popular culture. In Performance All the Way Down, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard O. Prum brings gender performativity into conversation with genetics, development, and evolutionary biology, arguing that the sexual binary is not essential to human genes, chromosomes, or embryos. Our genomes are not blueprints, algorithms, or recipes for the physical representation of our personal sexual essences or fates. In accessible language, Prum shows that gene expression is a material action in the world, a performance through which individuals regulate and achieve their own becoming. Human development is a performative continuum from a fertilized egg to a complex adult with tissues and organs, neurological control, immune defenses, psychological mechanisms, gender, and sexual behavior. This complex hierarchy of self-enactment reflects the evolved agency of distinct genes, molecules, cells, and tissues. Sure to inspire a conversation, Performance All the Way Down is a book about biology for feminists, a book about feminist theory for biologists, and a book for anyone curious about how our sexual bodies grow.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415752 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold WarAuthor: Andreas KillenNarrator: Graham HalsteadFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 10 hours 52 minutesRelease date: March 21, 2023Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the complex circumstances surrounding the genesis of our present-day fascination with this organ. The 1950s were a transformative, even revolutionary decade in the history of brain science. Using new techniques for probing brain activity and function, researchers in neurosurgery, psychiatry, and psychology achieved dramatic breakthroughs in the treatment of illnesses like epilepsy and schizophrenia, as well as the understanding of such faculties as memory and perception. Memory was the site of particularly startling discoveries. As one researcher wrote to another in the middle of that decade, âMemory was the sleeping beauty of the brainâand now she is awake.â Collectively, these advances prefigured the emergence of the field of neuroscience at the end of the twentieth century. But the 1950s also marked the beginning of the Cold War and a period of transformative social change across Western society. These developments resulted in unease and paranoia. Mysterious new afflictionsânone more mystifying than âbrainwashingââalso appeared at this time. Faced with the discovery that, as one leading psychiatrist put it, âthe human personality is not as stable as we often assume,â many researchers in the sciences of brain and behavior joined the effort to understand these conditions. They devised ingenious and sometimes transgressive experimental methods for studying and proposing countermeasures to the problem of Communist mind control. Some of these procedures took on a strange life of their own, escaping the confines of the research lab to become part of 1960s counterculture. Much later, in the early 2000s, they resurfaced in the War on Terror. These stories, often told separately, are brought together by the historian Andreas Killen in this chronicle of the brainâs mid-twentieth-century emergence as both a new research frontier and an organ whose integrity and capacitiesâespecially that of memoryâwere imagined as uniquely imperiled in the 1950s. Nervous Systems explores the anxious context in which the mid-century sciences of the brain took shape and reveals the deeply ambivalent history that lies behind our contemporary understanding of this organ.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439277 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Origin: A Genetic History of the AmericasAuthor: Jennifer RaffNarrator: Yvonne Russo, Jennifer Raff, Tanis ParenteauFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 12 minutesRelease date: February 8, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold storyâand fascinating mysteryâof how humans migrated to the Americas. ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete genomes. ORIGIN provides an overview of these new histories throughout North and South America, and a glimpse into how the tools of genetics reveal details about human history and evolution. 20,000 years ago, people crossed a great land bridge from Siberia into Western Alaska and then dispersed southward into what is now called the Americas. Until we venture out to other worlds, this remains the last time our species has populated an entirely new place, and this event has been a subject of deep fascination and controversy. No written recordsâand scant archaeological evidenceâexist to tell us what happened or how it took place. Many different models have been proposed to explain how the Americas were peopled and what happened in the thousands of years that followed. A study of both past and present, ORIGIN explores how genetics is currently being used to construct narratives that profoundly impact Indigenous peoples of the Americas. It serves as a primer for anyone interested in how genetics has become entangled with identity in the way that society addresses the question "Who is indigenous?"
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440966 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds ConsciousAuthor: Antonio DamasioNarrator: Julian MorrisFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 3 hours 10 minutesRelease date: October 26, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: From one of the worldâs leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of how biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us the tools to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness âOne thrilling insight after another ... Damasio has succeeded brilliantly in narrowing the gap between body and mind.â âThe New York Times Book Review In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific disciplines have given us a way to understand consciousness and its significance for human life. In the forty-eight brief chapters of Feeling & Knowing, and in writing that remains faithful to our intuitive sense of what feeling and experiencing are about, Damasio helps us understand why being conscious is not the same as sensing, why nervous systems are essential for the development of feelings, and why feeling opens the way to consciousness writ large. He combines the latest discoveries in various sciences with philosophy and discusses his original research, which has transformed our understanding of the brain and human behavior. Here is an indispensable guide to understandÂing how we experience the world within and around us and find our place in the universe.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370258 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined - And Redefined - NatureAuthor: Beth ShapiroNarrator: Beth ShapiroFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 40 minutesRelease date: October 26, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: In 2020, the inventors of CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing tool, won the Nobel Prize for medicine. It seemed like the capstone of an astounding fifty-year run: we have turned bacteria into factories for insulin, used viruses to insert genes for pesticide resistance into plants, and now learned to rewrite our own DNA. Once, we humans could only observe evolution. Suddenly, we had conquered it.And yet, in Life as We Made It, evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro argues thatâdespite how amazing our new technologies areâour ability to alter the course of evolution isnât new. Humans have been reshaping the world around us for ages, from the first dogs to genetically modified Enviropigs. Indeed, she argues, resetting the course of evolution is what our species does, by domesticating, as with dogs and wheat; by hunting, as with wolves and mammoths; and by protecting, as with bison and mountain lions.What is new is that where once we shaped evolution through brute force, we can now do it as artisans. That power comes not a moment too soon. If we are going to survive in the next few centuries, we must revise the book of life. Instead of rehashing arguments about genetic engineering, letâs embrace the fact that we can shape evolution to create a world in which we want to live. The question isnât should we meddle, but how? Life as We Made It is an essential book for charting a better course into a risky future.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460418 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Generations: Does When You're Born Shape Who You Are?Author: Bobby DuffyNarrator: Mark ElstobFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 5 minutesRelease date: September 2, 2021Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: Are millennials entitled and lazy? Are baby boomers the most sexually liberal generation? Was generation X the last group to show loyalty to political parties? In this original and deeply researched book, polling expert and professor of public policy Bobby Duffy explores how when we're born determines our attitudes to money, sex, religion, politics and much else. Informed by exclusive studies from IPSOS, as well as his own research, Duffy reveals that many of our preconceptions are just that: tired stereotypes. Revealing and informative, Generations provides a new framework for understanding the most divisive issues raging today: from gun control to climate change and Brexit to the surveillance state. Including data from over 40 countries and interviews across generational divides, this big thinking book will transform how you view the world. âSimply indispensable. Marrying fascinating data with superb analysis, this is a unique book.â MATTHEW D'ANCONA on The Perils of Perception
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/457116 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Forgetting: The Benefits of Not RememberingAuthor: Scott A. SmallNarrator: Timothy AndrĂ©s PabonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 49 minutesRelease date: July 13, 2021Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: âFascinating and useful . . . The distinguished memory researcher Scott A. Small explains why forgetfulness is not only normal but also beneficial.ââWalter Isaacson, bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs Who wouldnât want a better memory? Dr. Scott Small has dedicated his career to understanding why memory forsakes us. As director of the Alzheimerâs Disease Research Center at Columbia University, he focuses largely on patients who experience pathological forgetting, and it is in contrast to their suffering that normal forgetting, which we experience every day, appears in sharp relief. Until recently, most everyoneâmemory scientists includedâbelieved that forgetting served no purpose. But new research in psychology, neurobiology, medicine, and computer science tells a different story. Forgetting is not a failure of our minds. Itâs not even a benign glitch. It is, in fact, good for usâand, alongside memory, it is a required function for our minds to work best. Forgetting benefits our cognitive and creative abilities, emotional well-being, and even our personal and societal health. As frustrating as a typical lapse can be, itâs precisely what opens up our minds to making better decisions, experiencing joy and relationships, and flourishing artistically. From studies of bonobos in the wild to visits with the iconic painter Jasper Johns and the renowned decision-making expert Daniel Kahneman, Small looks across disciplines to put new scientific findings into illuminating context while also revealing groundbreaking developments about Alzheimerâs disease. The next time you forget where you left your keys, remember that a little forgetting does a lot of good. *Includes a downloadable PDF of images from the book Cover art: © 2021 The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439564 to listen full audiobooks.Title: It's Elemental: The Hidden Chemistry in EverythingAuthor: Kate BiberdorfNarrator: Kate BiberdorfFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 11 minutesRelease date: July 13, 2021Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: In this fresh and engaging guide to chemistry, Dr. Kate Biberdorf, aka "Kate the Chemist," reveals the fascinating science we experience every day Have you ever wondered what makes dough rise? Or how your morning coffee gives you that energy boost? Or why your shampoo is making your hair look greasy? The answer is chemistry. From the moment we wake up until the time we go to sleep (and even while we sleep), chemistry is at workâand it doesn't take a PhD in science to understand it. Dr. Biberdorf has appeared on TV programs from the Today show to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, lighting the world on fire and changing the face of chemistry as we know it. In It's Elemental, she demystifies the fundamental principles of the science that may have eluded you in high school and shows how chemistry comes alive in everything we do. With wry wit and infectious enthusiasm, this entertaining guide will ignite your passion for science and change the way you experience the world. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/426080 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful InsectsAuthor: Jonathan BalcombeNarrator: Jonathan BalcombeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 41 minutesRelease date: May 25, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History and a New York Times Editors Choice Pick 'After reading Super Fly, you will never take a fly for granted again. Thank you, Jonathan Balcombe, for reminding us of the infinite marvels of everyday creatures.' âSy Montgomery, Author of How to Be a Good Creature From an expert in animal consciousness, a book that will turn the fly on the wall into the elephant in the room. For most of us, the only thing we know about flies is that they're annoying, and our usual reaction is to try to kill them. In Super Fly, the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe shows the order Diptera in all of its diversity, illustrating the essential role that flies play in every ecosystem in the world as pollinators, waste-disposers, predators, and food source; and how flies continue to reshape our understanding of evolution. Along the way, he reintroduces us to familiar foes like the fruit fly and mosquito, and gives us the chance to meet their lesser-known cousins like the Petroleum Fly (the only animal in the world that breeds in crude oil) and the Chocolate Midge (the sole pollinator of the Cacao tree). No matter your outlook on our tiny buzzing neighbors, Super Fly will change the way you look at flies forever. Jonathan Balcombe is the author of four books on animal sentience, including the New York Times bestselling What A Fish Knows, which was nominated for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Science Writing. He has worked for years as a researcher and educator with the Humane society to show us the consciousness of other creatures, and here he takes us to the farthest reaches of the animal kingdom.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442898 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Mom Genes: Inside The New Science of Our Ancient Maternal InstinctAuthor: Abigail TuckerNarrator: Samantha DeszFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 59 minutesRelease date: April 27, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lion in the Living Room comes a fascinating and provocative exploration of the biology of motherhood that âis witty, reassuring, and takes motherhood out of the footnotes and places it front and centerâwhere it belongsâ (Louann Brizendine, MD, New York Times bestselling author). Everyone knows how babies are made, but scientists are only just beginning to understand the making of a mother. Mom Genes reveals the hard science behind our tenderest maternal impulses, tackling questions such as why mothers are destined to mimic their own moms (or not), how maternal aggression makes females the worldâs most formidable creatures, and how a crisis like the Covid-19 pandemic can make or break a mom. Weaving the latest research with Abigail Tuckerâs personal experiences, Mom Genes âis an eye-opening tour through the biology and psychology of a role that is at once utterly ordinary and wondrously strangeâ (Annie Murphy Paul, author of Origins).
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462055 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the ToiletAuthor: Chelsea WaldNarrator: Lisa FlanaganFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 8 minutesRelease date: April 6, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: Finalist for the 2022 NASW Science in Society Journalism Award Longlisted for the 2022 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books From an award-winning science journalist, a âdeeply researched, entertaining, and impassioned exploration of sanitationâ (Nature) and the future of the toiletâfor fans of popular science bestsellers by Mary Roach. Most of us do not give much thought to the centerpiece of our bathrooms, but the toilet is an unexpected paradox. On the one hand, it is a modern miracle: a ubiquitous fixture in a vast sanitation system that has helped add decades to the human life span by reducing disease. On the other hand, the toilet is also a tragic failure: less than half of the worldâs population can access a toilet that safely manages body waste, including many right here in the United States. And it is inefficient, squandering clean water as well as the nutrients, energy, and information contained in the stuff we flush away. While we see radical technological change in almost every other aspect of our lives, we remain stuck in a sanitation status quoâin part because the topic of toilets is taboo. Fortunately, thereâs hopeâand Pipe Dreams daringly profiles the growing army of sewage-savvy scientists, engineers, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and activists worldwide who are overcoming their aversions and focusing their formidable skills on making toilets accessible and healthier for all. This potential revolution in sanitation has many benefits, including reducing inequalities, mitigating climate change and water scarcity, improving agriculture, and optimizing health. Author Chelsea Wald takes us on a wild world tour from a compost toilet project in Haiti, to a plant in the Netherlands that salvages used toilet paper from sewage, and shows us a toilet seat that can watch usersâ poop for signs of illness, among many other fascinating developments. âToilet humor is one thing, but toilet fact, as digested by skilled science writer Wald, is quite anotherâŠ[Pipe Dreams is] a highly informative, well-reasoned call to rethink the throneâ (Kirkus Reviews).
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/410006 to listen full audiobooks.Title: First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us HumanAuthor: Jeremy DesilvaNarrator: Kaleo GriffithFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 16 minutesRelease date: April 6, 2021Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from bipedalism. First Steps takes our ordinary, everyday walking experience and reveals how unusual and extraordinary it truly is. The seven-million-year-long journey through the origins of upright walking shows how it was in fact a gateway to many of the other attributes that make us humanâfrom our technological skills and sociality to our thirst for exploration. DeSilva uses early human evolution to explain the instinct that propels a crawling infant to toddle onto two feet, differences between how men and women tend to walk, physical costs of upright walking, including hernias, varicose veins and backache, and the challenges of childbirth imposed by a bipedal pelvis. And he theorises that upright walking may have laid the foundation for the traits of compassion, empathy and altruism that characterise our species today and helped us become the dominant species on this planet.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444517 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the EarthAuthor: Tony HissNarrator: Adam Barr, Paul BoehmerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 27 minutesRelease date: March 30, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: The award-winning author of The Experience of Place delivers an 'upbeat and engaging account of the remarkable progress being made to preserve vast wild spaces for animals to roam' (The Wall Street Journal)âand an urgent call to protect 50 percent of the earth's land by 2050âthereby saving millions of its species. Beginning in the vast North American Boreal Forest that stretches through Canada, and roving across the continent, from the Northern Sierra to Alabama's Paint Rock Forest, from the Appalachian Trail to a ranch in Mexico, Tony Hiss sets out on a journey to take stock of the 'superorganism' that is the earth: its land, its elements, its plants and animals, its greatest threats--and what we can do to keep it, and ourselves, alive. Hiss not only invites us to understand the scope and gravity of the problems we face, but also makes the case for why protecting half the land is the way to fix those problems. He highlights the important work of the many groups already involved in this fight, such as the Indigenous Leadership Initiative, the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, and the global animal tracking project ICARUS. And he introduces us to the engineers, geologists, biologists, botanists, oceanographers, ecologists, and other 'Half Earthers' like Hiss himself who are allied in their dedication to the unifying, essential cause of saving our own planet from ourselves. Tender, impassioned, curious, and above all else inspiring, Rescuing the Planet is a work that promises to make all of us better citizens of the earth.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/422867 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our LivesAuthor: David Sloan WilsonNarrator: RenĂ© RuizFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 13 hours 57 minutesRelease date: March 30, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: With stories that entertain as much as they inform, renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson outlines the basic principles of evolution and shows how, when properly understood, they can illuminate the length and breadth of creation, from the origin of life to the nature of religion. What is the biological reason for gossip? For laughter? For the creation of art? Why do dogs have curly tails? What can microbes tell us about morality? These and many other questions are tackled by Wilson in this witty and groundbreaking new book. Now everyone can move beyond the sterile debates about creationism and intelligent design to share Darwinâs panoramic view of animal and human life, seamlessly connected to each other. Evolution, as Wilson explains, is not just about dinosaurs and human origins, but about why all species behave as they doâfrom beetles that devour their own young, to bees that function as a collective brain, to dogs that are smarter in some respects than our closest ape relatives. And basic evolutionary principles are also the foundation for humanityâs capacity for symbolic thought, culture, and morality. In example after example, Wilson sheds new light on Darwinâ s grand theory and how it can be applied to daily life. By turns thoughtful, provocative, and daringly funny, Evolution for Everyone addresses some of the deepest philosophical and social issues of this or any age. In helping us come to a deeper understanding of human beings and our place in the world, it might also help us to improve that world.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453967 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human OriginsAuthor: Tom HighamNarrator: John SackvilleFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 4 minutesRelease date: March 25, 2021Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham. In The World Before Us, he explains the scientific and technological advancements - in radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA, for example - that allowed each of these discoveries to be made, enabling us to be more accurate in our predictions about not just how long ago these other humans lived, but how they lived, interacted and live on in our genes today. This is the story of us, told for the first time with its full cast of characters. © Tom Higham 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/395940 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting OldAuthor: Andrew SteeleNarrator: Andrew SteeleFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 47 minutesRelease date: March 23, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: âA fascinating look at how scientists are working to help doctors treat the aging process itself, helping us all to lead longer, healthier lives.â âSanjay Gupta, MD Agingânot cancer, not heart diseaseâis the underlying cause of most human death and suffering. The same cascade of biological changes that renders us wrinkled and gray also opens the door to dementia and disease. We work furiously to conquer each individual disease, but we never think to ask: Is aging itself necessary? Nature tells us it is not: there are tortoises and salamanders who are spry into old age and whose risk of dying is the same no matter how old they are, a phenomenon known as âbiological immortality.â In Ageless, Andrew Steelecharts the astounding progress science has made in recent years to secure the same for humans: to help us become old without getting frail, to live longer without ill health or disease.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441950 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens--and OurselvesAuthor: Arik KershenbaumNarrator: Samuel WestFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 13 minutesRelease date: March 16, 2021Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space. Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The time has come to abandon our fantasies of space invaders and movie monsters and place our expectations on solid scientific footing. But short of aliens landing in New York City, how do we know what they are like? Using his own expert understanding of life on Earth and Darwin's theory of evolution--which applies throughout the universe--Cambridge zoologist Dr. Arik Kershenbaum explains what alien life must be like: how these creatures will move, socialize, and communicate. For example, by observing fish whose electrical pulses indicate social status, we can see that other planets might allow for communication by electricity. As there was evolutionary pressure to wriggle along a sea floor, Earthling animals tend to have left/right symmetry; on planets where creatures evolved in midair or in soupy tar, they might be lacking any symmetry at all. Might there be an alien planet with supersonic animals? A moon where creatures have a language composed of smells? Will aliens scream with fear, act honestly, or have technology? The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy answers these questions using the latest science to tell the story of how life really works, on Earth and in space.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441951 to listen full audiobooks.Title: LIFE'S EDGE: The Search for What It Means to Be AliveAuthor: Carl ZimmerNarrator: Joe OchmanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 15 minutesRelease date: March 9, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: âCarl Zimmer is one of the best science writers we have today.â âRebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living worldâfrom protocells to brains, from zygotes to pandemic virusesâthe harder they find it is to locate lifeâs edge. Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word? If we canât answer that question here on earth, how will we know when and if we discover alien life on other worlds? The question hangs over some of societyâs most charged conflictsâwhether a fertilized egg is a living person, for example, and when we ought to declare a person legally dead. Life's Edge is an utterly fascinating investigation that no one but one of the most celebrated science writers of our generation could craft. Zimmer journeys through the strange experiments that have attempted to re-create life. Literally hundreds of definitions of what that should look like now exist, but none has yet emerged as an obvious winner. Lists of what living things have in common do not add up to a theory of life. It's never clear why some items on the list are essential and others not. Coronaviruses have altered the course of history, and yet many scientists maintain they are not alive. Chemists are creating droplets that can swarm, sense their environment, and multiply. Have they made life in the lab? Whether he is handling pythons in Alabama or searching for hibernating bats in the Adirondacks, Zimmer revels in astounding examples of life at its most bizarre. He tries his own hand at evolving life in a test tube with unnerving results. Charting the obsession with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and how Coleridge came to believe the whole universe was alive, Zimmer leads us all the way into the labs and minds of researchers working on engineering life from the ground up. Cover image Courtesy of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. © MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology/Madeline Lancaster
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447872 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Hooked: How Processed Food Became AddictiveAuthor: Michael MossNarrator: Scott BrickFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 0 minutesRelease date: March 4, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Biology & ChemistryPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Everyone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? And to what extent does the food industry know, or care, about these vulnerabilities? In Hooked, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss sets out to answer these questions and to find the true peril in our food. Moss uses the latest research on addiction to uncover the shocking ways that food, in some cases, is even more addictive than alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs. Our bodies are hardwired for sweets, so food giants have developed fifty-six types of sugar to add to their products and ways to exploit our evolutionary preference for fast, ready-to-eat foods. Moss goes on to show how the processed food industry -- including major companies like Nestlé, Mars, and Kellogg's -- has not only tried to hide the addictiveness of food but to actually exploit it. As obesity rates continue to climb, manufacturers are now claiming to add ingredients that can effortlessly cure our compulsive eating habits. A gripping account of the legal battles, insidious marketing campaigns, and cutting-edge food science that have brought us to our current public health crisis, Hooked lays out all that the food industry is doing to exploit and deepen our addictions, and shows us why what we eat has never mattered more. © Michael Moss 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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