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The Sleepless Ape
- The Story of Sleep in Human Evolution
- By: David R. Samson
- Narrated by: David R. Samson
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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How the unique sleep habits of early humans fostered survival, innovation, and social evolution—and how this evolutionary legacy holds insights into how we sleep today. Despite sleep’s critical role in maintaining health and cognitive function, humans sleep less than any other primate. The...
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The Sleepless Ape
- The Story of Sleep in Human Evolution
- Narrated by: David R. Samson
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 19-05-26
- Language: English
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Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch
- By: Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall293
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Performance240
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Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even...
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misleading description
- By annette on 18-07-13
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Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens, Stephen Briggs
- Series: Science of Discworld, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 27-09-12
- Language: English
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- By: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall185
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Performance169
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'Steve Brusatte, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, brings mammals out from the shadow of their more showy predecessors . . . In this beautifully written . . . terrific book, he tells the extraordinary story of how mammals came to be and makes the case for them as creatures who...
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would have been good to have the extra material
- By petezefeet on 08-07-22
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 09-06-22
- Language: English
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A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth
- 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
- By: Henry Gee
- Narrated by: Henry Gee
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance96
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'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . . [making] clear sense out of very complex narratives' - The Times 'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically...
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EXTRAORDINARY
- By andrew james lilley on 23-09-21
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A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth
- 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
- Narrated by: Henry Gee
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 16-09-21
- Language: English
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The Story of the Human Body
- Evolution, Health, and Disease
- By: Daniel E. Lieberman
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall337
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Performance294
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In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman—chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field—gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing...
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Awfully slow
- By Mister Peridot on 21-03-14
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The Story of the Human Body
- Evolution, Health, and Disease
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-10-13
- Language: English
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Life’s Ratchet
- How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
- By: Peter M. Hoffman
- Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance29
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The cells in our bodies consist of molecules, made up of the same carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms found in air and rocks. But molecules, such as water and sugar, are not alive. So how do our cells - assemblies of otherwise "dead" molecules - come to life, and together constitute a living being? In Life’s Ratchet, physicist Peter M. Hoffmann locates the answer to this age-old question at the nanoscale.
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Wonderfully informing
- By Marcelo on 07-12-15
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Life’s Ratchet
- How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
- Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-02-14
- Language: English
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The Light Eaters
- The New Science of Plant Intelligence
- By: Zoë Schlanger
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance36
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'teeming with fascinating and enlightening insights' OBSERVER ‘Plant lovers will find much of interest in Schlanger’s inspiring tale of where her curious mind has led her’ NATURE ‘Captivating’ THE GUARDIAN ‘It’s rare that you read a book that makes you want to grab people to tell...
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Respect for plants
- By veyza on 14-10-24
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The Light Eaters
- The New Science of Plant Intelligence
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-05-24
- Language: English
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The Story of Birds
- An Evolutionary History of the Dinosaurs That Live Among Us
- By: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Steve Brusatte has a rare gift for bringing the distant past vividly and fascinatingly to life' - Bill Bryson'Soaringly brilliant' – Alice Roberts A New Scientist and Times most anticipated book of 2026, from the bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of...
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The Story of Birds
- An Evolutionary History of the Dinosaurs That Live Among Us
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 11-06-26
- Language: English
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The Awakened Ape
- A Biohacker's Guide to Evolutionary Fitness, Natural Ecstasy, and Stress-Free Living
- By: Jevan Pradas
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall760
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Perpetually bored, anxious, fatigued, and overweight, modern society has failed to deliver the happiness it promised. The remedy, Jevan Pradas argues, is in a unique synthesis of a Paleolithic lifestyle and Buddhist meditation. A sprawling journey, featuring Jevan's adventures with naked Amazonian tribes and retreats with enlightened monks to learn the secrets of optimal well-being, The Awakened Ape will teach you how to achieve deep states of bliss. All while shaping your body into the fit and healthy animal millions of years of evolution programmed you to be.
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Unfulfilled potential
- By Voice of reason on 30-07-18
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The Awakened Ape
- A Biohacker's Guide to Evolutionary Fitness, Natural Ecstasy, and Stress-Free Living
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 19-06-18
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- The Sunday Times Bestseller, The Untold Story of a Lost World
- By: Steve Brusatte
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance743
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THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR A Sunday Times Bestseller 'Thrilling . . . the best book on the subject written for the general reader since the 1980s.' The Sunday Times 66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading...
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Annoying narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 31-07-19
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- The Sunday Times Bestseller, The Untold Story of a Lost World
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-05-18
- Language: English
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Original Sin
- The Genetics of Wrongdoing, the Problem of Blame and the Future of Forgiveness
- By: Kathryn Paige Harden
- Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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As one of the world's leading scientists examining how our DNA shapes differences in temperament, temptation and behaviour, Harden has seen first-hand how we - in public and in our most private relationships - continue to struggle with the ancient tensions between nature and nurture, freedom and...
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The sensitive intelligence of the author and its accurate expression by the narrator.
- By Keith Monery on 30-04-26
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Original Sin
- The Genetics of Wrongdoing, the Problem of Blame and the Future of Forgiveness
- Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 03-03-26
- Language: English
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The Dragons of Eden
- Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
- By: Carl Sagan
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Ann Druyan
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends - and their amazing links to recent discoveries.
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Wonderful wisdom from the Gentleman Genius
- By Shaun W. on 22-01-23
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The Dragons of Eden
- Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Ann Druyan
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 25-07-17
- Language: English
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The Believing Brain
- From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
- By: Michael Shermer
- Narrated by: Michael Shermer
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall149
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Performance96
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In this, his magnum opus, the world’s best known skeptic and critical thinker Dr. Michael Shermer—founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and perennial monthly columnist (“Skeptic”) for Scientific American—presents his comprehensive theory on how beliefs are born, formed, nourished, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished.
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Brilliantly evidenced reasons to doubt yourself!
- By Jeremy on 20-12-11
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The Believing Brain
- From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
- Narrated by: Michael Shermer
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 24-05-11
- Language: English
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Humanology
- A Scientist's Guide to our Amazing Existence
- By: Luke O’Neill
- Narrated by: Ruairi Conaghan
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall73
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Performance62
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Taking us on an incredible journey across centuries and galaxies, accompanied by his characteristic wit, Professor Luke O’Neill explains how it all began, how it will all end and everything in between. Listeners will benefit from Luke’s insatiable curiosity for life when they dive into this ultimate journey through life and death. Among other fascinating facts, you’ll discover the science behind how we got to be so smart, why sex with a caveman was a good idea, the science of finding love, why we follow religions and how robots will become part of everyday life.
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Incredibly fascinating and humbling
- By Iain on 03-03-20
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Humanology
- A Scientist's Guide to our Amazing Existence
- Narrated by: Ruairi Conaghan
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 01-02-20
- Language: English
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Scotland
- A History from Earliest Times
- By: Alistair Moffat
- Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
- Length: 23 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance36
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Covering the Ice Age to the recent Scottish Referendum, the acclaimed historian and author explores the history of the Scottish nation. Focusing on key moments such as the Battle of Bannockburn and the Jacobite risings, Moffat also features other episodes in history that are perhaps less well documented. From prehistoric timber halls to inventions and literature, Moffat's epic explores the drama of battle, change, loss, and innovation interspersed with the lives of ordinary Scottish folk, the men and women who defined a nation.
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Good listen
- By Anonymous on 26-05-22
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Scotland
- A History from Earliest Times
- Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
- Length: 23 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 30-11-21
- Language: English
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Life's Edge
- The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
- By: Carl Zimmer
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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'Profound, lyrical, and fascinating, Life’s Edge will give you a newfound appreciation for life itself. It is the work of a master science writer at the height of his skills.' – Ed Yong, author of An Immense World We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the...
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What is life, revisited.
- By Eoin leen on 05-12-21
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Life's Edge
- The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 19-08-21
- Language: English
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Cave of Bones
- By: Lee Berger, John Hawks
- Narrated by: Lee Berger
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Performance14
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In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. Lead researcher Berger had never made his way into the dark, cramped, dangerous underground spaces where many of the naledi fossils had been found. Now he was ready to do so. Once inside the cave, Berger made shocking new discoveries that expand our understanding of this early hominid.
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Read by the author
- By J. Rutter on 26-12-24
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Cave of Bones
- Narrated by: Lee Berger
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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Major Transitions in Evolution
- By: Anthony Martin, John Hawks, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Anthony Martin, John Hawks
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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Imagine a world without bees, butterflies, and flowering plants. That was Earth 125 million years ago. Turn back the clock 400 million years, and there were no trees. At 450 million years in the past, even the earliest insects had not yet developed. And looking back 500 million years, the land was devoid of life, which at that time flourished in a profusion of strange forms in the oceans. These and other major turning points are the amazing story of evolution.
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Interesting journey through evolution
- By Sebastian Meiser on 05-02-20
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Major Transitions in Evolution
- Narrated by: Anthony Martin, John Hawks
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-03-19
- Language: English
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Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism
- By: Aron Ra
- Narrated by: Aron Ra
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
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Overall85
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Performance76
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Religious fundamentalists and biblical literalists present any number of arguments that attempt to disprove evolution. Those with a sympathetic ear often fail to critically examine these creationist claims, leading to an ill-informed public and, perhaps more troubling, ill-advised public policy. As Aron Ra makes clear, however, every single argument deployed by creationists in their attacks on evolution is founded on fundamental scientific, religious, and historical falsehoods - all of them.
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Aron-Ra doing what he does best
- By George Bernard Raw on 10-02-17
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Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism
- Narrated by: Aron Ra
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 05-10-16
- Language: English
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Drunk
- How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
- By: Edward Slingerland
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance30
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While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround our notions of intoxication to provide the first rigorous, scientifically grounded explanation for our love of alcohol.
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Devil or Demigod
- By Stephen on 21-02-23
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