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Natalie Angier knows all that scientists know—and sometimes more—about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preferences on evolution. She knows how scientists go about their work, and she describes their ways, their visions, and their arguments. Perhaps most poignantly, she understands the complexities and the sad necessity of death. “The beauty of the natural world lies in the details, and most of those details are not the stuff of calendar art,” she points out.
Few writers have ever covered so many facets of biology so evocatively in one book. The Beauty of the Beastly tells us how the genius of the biological universe resides in its details and proves why, according to Timothy Ferris, author of the acclaimed Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Angier is “one of the strongest and wittiest science writers in the world today.”
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From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes to...Aliens?
- De Katy.LED en 12-04-18
De: Nathan H. Lents
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites
- How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
- De: Kathleen McAuliffe
- Narrado por: Nicol Zanzarella
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 993
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A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creatures - including humans - think, feel, and act. These tiny organisms can live only inside another animal, and, as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their host's behavior. Far more often than appreciated, these puppeteers orchestrate the interplay between predator and prey.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining but questionable studies
- De mdkoci en 01-02-17
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Evolving Ourselves
- How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth
- De: Juan Enriquez, Steve Gullans
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 182
Why are conditions like autism, asthma, obesity, and allergies exploding at unprecedented rates? Why are we living longer, getting smarter, having far fewer kids? If Darwin were alive today, how would he explain this new world?
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5 out of 5 stars
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fascinating ideas and science
- De Joel en 07-04-15
De: Juan Enriquez, y otros
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I, Mammal
- De: Liam Drew
- Narrado por: Neil Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 20
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A list of the attributes that define a mammal is a ragbag of things - fur, live birth, three bones in the middle ear, a brain whose two halves are robustly joined together.... But this curious collection of features contain the roots of all the biology that makes us what we are: monkeys with massive brains who parent extensively, enjoy sport and think lots. Which is to say, what makes us mammals makes us human.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Who knew?
- De Fitmen en 04-25-18
De: Liam Drew
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Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You
- A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World
- De: Dan Riskin
- Narrado por: Dan Riskin
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin explains, it's also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our guide through the natural world at its most gloriously ruthless. Using the seven deadly sins as a road map, Riskin offers dozens of jaw-dropping examples that illuminate how brutal nature can truly be.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just a bunch of random animal behaviors.
- De Goddess en 05-18-23
De: Dan Riskin
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Sex, Time, and Power
- How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
- De: Leonard Shlain
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human female's pelvis and the increasing size of infants' heads precipitated a crisis for the species. Natural selection allowed for reconfiguration of hormonal cycles, entraining women with the periodicity of the moon - and imbuing women with the concept of time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting conjecture
- De DJKPP en 10-15-20
De: Leonard Shlain
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Parasite Rex
- Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
- De: Carl Zimmer
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 134
For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and the darkest shadows of science. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer takes listeners on a fantastic voyage into the secret universe of these extraordinary life forms that are not only among the most highly evolved on Earth, but make up the majority of life's diversity. Traveling from the steamy jungles of Costa Rica to the parasite-riddled war zone of southern Sudan, Zimmer introduces an array of amazing creatures that invade their hosts, prey on them from within, and control their behavior.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating, Repetitive and reading disaster
- De Spiral, en 04-02-20
De: Carl Zimmer
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Why Evolution Is True
- De: Jerry A. Coyne
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,928
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,444
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,440
Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact. In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design", there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned: the evidence, the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As great as everyone says it is
- De Joseph en 12-01-10
De: Jerry A. Coyne
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Nature's Nether Regions
- What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves
- De: Menno Schithuizen
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
The story of evolution as you’ve never heard it before. What’s the easiest way to tell species apart? Check their genitals. Researching private parts was long considered taboo, but scientists are now beginning to understand that the wild diversity of sex organs across species can tell us a lot about evolution. Menno Schilthuizen invites listeners to join him as he uncovers the ways the shapes and functions of genitalia have been molded by complex Darwinian struggles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A New Favorite
- De S. Pepper en 05-15-15
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- De: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 19 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,913
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,185
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,138
The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's a Wonderful Book
- De JKC en 06-02-16
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Superlative
- The Biology of Extremes
- De: Matthew D. LaPlante
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change. The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms. For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers. Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating survey of amazing biology
- De Nerd's-eye view en 12-06-19
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An Epidemic of Absence
- A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases
- De: Moises Velasquez-Manoff
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 17 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
An Epidemic of Absence asks what will happen in developing countries, which, as they become more affluent, have already seen an uptick in allergic disease: Will India end up more allergic than Europe? Velasquez-Manoff also details a controversial underground movement that has coalesced around the treatment of immune-mediated disorders with parasites. Against much of his better judgment, he joins these do-it-yourselfers and reports his surprising results.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The point of view from a Veterinarian immunologist
- De rtgymnast en 11-03-17
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Welcome to the Microbiome
- Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You
- De: Rob DeSalle, Susan L. Perkins
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 7 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Suddenly, research findings require a paradigm shift in our view of the microbial world. The Human Microbiome Project at the National Institutes of Health is well under way, and unprecedented scientific technology now allows the censusing of trillions of microbes inside and on our bodies as well as in the places where we live, work, and play. This intriguing, up-to-the-minute book for scientists and nonscientists alike explains what researchers are discovering about the microbe world and what the implications are for modern science and medicine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I learned so much from this book. I am happy.
- De Jonathan Miller en 09-08-18
De: Rob DeSalle, y otros
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Missing Microbes
- How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
- De: Martin J. Blaser
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 328
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 330
In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin J. Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the health and equilibrium of our body. Now this invisible eden is being irrevocably damaged by some of our most revered medical advances-antibiotics-threatening the extinction of our irreplaceable microbes with terrible health consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very enlightening and information well supported
- De James en 05-03-15
De: Martin J. Blaser
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The Cancer Chronicles
- Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
- De: George Johnson
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a revolution under way - an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is and where it comes from. In a provocative and intellectually vibrant exploration, he takes us on an adventure through the history and recent advances of cancer research that will challenge everything you thought you knew about the disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A quick read - hard to put down
- De Digital Dilema en 09-06-13
De: George Johnson
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How Sex Works
- De: Sharon Moalem
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 194
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 131
Can twins have different fathers? From the composition and function of human sex organs to the fascinating biochemistry behind sexual attraction, How Sex Works presents captivating new ideas and surprising answers to questions about contraception, fertility, circumcision, menopause, STDs, homosexuality, orgasms, and more. This is an entertaining, comprehensive exploration of culture, biology, and history that takes us far beyond our common understanding of sex.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An interesting and easy listen
- De colleen en 06-15-12
De: Sharon Moalem
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The Ancestor's Tale
- A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
- De: Richard Dawkins
- Narrado por: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 586
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 511
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 503
In The Ancestor's Tale, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse tour through evolution, from present-day humans back to the microbial beginnings of life four billion years ago. Throughout the journey, Dawkins spins entertaining, insightful stories and sheds light on topics such as speciation, sexual selection, and extinction. The Ancestor's Tale is at once an essential education in evolutionary theory and riveting in its telling.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Please do an unabridged version!
- De MovieExpertise en 09-29-16
De: Richard Dawkins
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How to Build a Dinosaur
- Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever
- De: Jack Horner, James Gorman
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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In movies, in novels, in comic strips, and on television, we've all seen dinosaurs - or at least somebody's educated guess of what they would look like. But what if it were possible to build, or grow, a real dinosaur without finding ancient DNA? Jack Horner, the scientist who advised Steven Spielberg on the blockbuster film Jurassic Park and a pioneer in bringing paleontology into the 21st century, teams up with the editor of the New York Times's Science Times section to reveal exactly what's in store.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book but misplaced title
- De Robert en 06-19-15
De: Jack Horner, y otros