Showing titles in History & Philosophy
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On the Origin of Species
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Performance181
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Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and a life-long committed Darwinist, abridges and reads this special audio version of Charles Darwin's famous book. A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals, starting with fish, all the way up through the ranks to apes, then to our current form.
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Something Old made Something New
- By Tim on 05-03-11
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On the Origin of Species
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-12-07
- Language: English
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I Am a Strange Loop
- By: Douglas R Hofstadter
- Narrated by: Greg Baglia
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall124
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Performance103
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Story100
One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from -- and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am...
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tedious
- By J Westwood on 07-01-20
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I Am a Strange Loop
- Narrated by: Greg Baglia
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 24-09-18
- Language: English
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The Light Ages
- A Medieval Journey of Discovery
- By: Seb Falk
- Narrated by: Seb Falk
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance33
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Brought to you by Penguin. The Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They gave us the first universities, the first eyeglasses and the first mechanical clocks as medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky. In this book, we...
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Medieval Science
- By Elke on 23-07-25
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The Light Ages
- A Medieval Journey of Discovery
- Narrated by: Seb Falk
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-09-20
- Language: English
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How Data Happened
- A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
- By: Chris Wiggins, Matthew L. Jones
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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From facial recognition—capable of checking us onto flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform everything from who gets loans to who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain to the development of Google search.
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Important and fascinating story
- By Calvin on 06-06-24
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How Data Happened
- A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 21-03-23
- Language: English
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The Jazz of Physics
- The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
- By: Stephon Alexander
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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More than 50 years ago, John Coltrane drew the 12 musical notes in a circle and connected them with straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane had put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander returns the favor, using jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe.
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Extremely boring!
- By KWV on 09-09-16
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The Jazz of Physics
- The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 19-05-16
- Language: English
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Three Stones Make a Wall
- The Story of Archaeology
- By: Eric H. Cline
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance10
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In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening he had cut in the door to the tomb, the Egyptologist famously replied, "I see wonderful things". Carter's fabulous discovery is just one of the many spellbinding stories told in Three Stones Make a Wall.
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Three Stones Make a Wall
- The Story of Archaeology
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-10-17
- Language: English
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Chamber Divers
- By: Rachel Lance
- Narrated by: Andy Cresswell
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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A small group of eccentric researchers, experimenting on themselves from inside pressure tanks in the middle of the London air raids, explored the deadly science needed to enable the critical reconnaissance vessels and underwater breathing apparatuses that would enable the Allies' dramatic, history-making success during the next major beach landing: D-Day.
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Interesting but disjointed
- By Heather Law on 19-10-24
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Chamber Divers
- Narrated by: Andy Cresswell
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-07-24
- Language: English
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The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith
- Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos
- By: William A. Dembski, Casey Luskin, Joseph M. Holden, and others
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 30 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Science and Christianity are often presented as opposites, when in fact the order of the universe and the complexity of life powerfully testify to intelligent design. With this comprehensive resource that includes the latest research, you'll witness how the findings of scientists provide compelling reasons to acknowledge the mind and presence of a creator.
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A brilliant, comprehensive summary of ID
- By Martin Kentish on 21-02-22
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The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith
- Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 30 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 18-01-22
- Language: English
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Strata
- Stories from Deep Time
- By: Laura Poppick
- Narrated by: Jeannie Sheneman
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The epic stories of our planet's 4.54-billion-year history are written in strata―ages-old remnants of ancient seafloors, desert dunes, and riverbeds striping landscapes around the world. In this brilliantly original debut work, science writer Laura Poppick decodes strata to lead us on a journey through four global transformations that made our lives on Earth possible: the first accumulations of oxygen in the atmosphere; the deep freezes of "Snowball Earth"; the rise of mud on land and accompanying proliferation of plants; and the dinosaurs' reign on a hothouse planet.
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Strata
- Stories from Deep Time
- Narrated by: Jeannie Sheneman
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 16-12-25
- Language: English
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Joined-Up Thinking
- The Science of Collective Intelligence and Its Power to Change Our Lives
- By: Hannah Critchlow
- Narrated by: Hannah Critchlow
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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New technology is helping us share our wisdom and knowledge much more diversely across race, class, gender and borders. And AI is sparking a revolution in our approach to intelligent thinking—linking us into fast-working brainnets for problem solving. Hannah Critchlow brings us an enlightening, invaluable guide to our future through the evolving new science of collective intelligence. She reveals what it says about us as human beings, shares compelling examples and stories, and shows us how best we can work collectively at work, in families and in any team situation.
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Full of nuggets and insight
- By Amazon Customer on 21-09-23
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Joined-Up Thinking
- The Science of Collective Intelligence and Its Power to Change Our Lives
- Narrated by: Hannah Critchlow
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 25-08-22
- Language: English
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Is Maths Real?
- How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
- By: Eugenia Cheng
- Narrated by: Eugenia Cheng
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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From imaginary numbers to the perplexing order of operations we all had drilled into us, Eugenia Cheng—mathematician, writer and woman on a mission to rid the world of maths phobia—brings us maths as we've never seen it before, revealing how profound insights can emerge from seemingly unlikely sources. Written with intelligence and passion, Is Maths Real? is a celebration of the true, curious spirit of the discipline.
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Is Maths Real?
- How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
- Narrated by: Eugenia Cheng
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 19-03-26
- Language: English
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- By: James Gleick
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall128
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Performance83
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Story79
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The...
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Informative but temporarily boring as an audiobook
- By Christos on 25-12-12
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-03-11
- Language: English
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The Age of Radiance
- The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
- By: Craig Nelson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance24
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“A thrilling, intense, and disturbing account of the atomic era, from the discovery of X-rays to the tragic meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant…Rich with powerful images and fraught with drama” (The Christian Science Monitor). When Marie Curie, Enrico Fermi, and...
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Far too fast, kindle only has 0.75 to reduce speed
- By Macksparky on 22-05-17
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The Age of Radiance
- The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 25-03-14
- Language: English
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Beneath the Night
- How the Stars Have Shaped the History of Humankind
- By: Stuart Clark
- Narrated by: Stuart Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance8
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Beneath the Night is a history of humanity, told through our relationship with the night sky. From prehistoric cave art and Ancient Egyptian zodiacs to the modern era of satellites and space exploration, Stuart Clark explores a fascination shared across the world and throughout millennia. It is one that has shaped our scientific understanding; helped us navigate the terrestrial world; provided inspiration for our poets, artists and philosophers; and it has given us a place to project our hopes and fears. In the stars, we can see our past - and ultimately, our fate.
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Mind-blowing
- By E Hume on 22-03-24
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Beneath the Night
- How the Stars Have Shaped the History of Humankind
- Narrated by: Stuart Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 13-10-20
- Language: English
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Horizons
- A Global History of Science
- By: James Poskett
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. Science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavour. Horizons pushes beyond Europe, exploring the ways in which scientists from Africa, America, Asia and the Pacific fit into the history of science, and arguing that it is best understood as a story of global cultural exchange.
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The Curate's Egg
- By The Phantom Agent on 16-09-22
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Meltdown
- Nuclear Disaster and the Human Cost of Going Critical
- By: Joel Levy
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance24
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From the pioneers of Los Alamos who got up close and personal with the cores of atomic bombs, to the hapless engineers in Soviet fuel-processing plants who unwittingly mixed up a disaster in a bucket, and from the terrifying impact of a tsunami at Fukushima to the mystery of the recent Russian incident, Meltdown explores the past and future of this extraordinary and potentially lethal source of infinite power
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Anti Nuclear tree hugging biased grot-rot
- By Mul on 22-11-21
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The Future Loves You
- How and Why We Should Abolish Death
- By: Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
- Narrated by: Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Brought to you by Penguin. A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive us Just as surgeons once believed pain was good for their patients, some argue today that death brings meaning to life. But given humans...
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The Future Loves You
- How and Why We Should Abolish Death
- Narrated by: Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 28-11-24
- Language: English
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Paleontology
- A Brief History of Life
- By: Ian Tattersall
- Narrated by: Brett Barry
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance6
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Ian Tattersall, a highly esteemed figure in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and paleontology, leads a fascinating tour of the history of life and the evolution of human beings. Starting at the very beginning, Tattersall examines patterns of change in the biosphere over time, and the correlations of biological events with physical changes in the Earth's environment.
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Excellent
- By Potts on 15-01-18
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Paleontology
- A Brief History of Life
- Narrated by: Brett Barry
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 15-11-10
- Language: English
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Infinity Beckoned
- Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
- By: Jay Gallentine
- Narrated by: Michael Burnette
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own.
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best book I'll read this year
- By mr david curran on 15-03-23
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Infinity Beckoned
- Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
- Narrated by: Michael Burnette
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-02-17
- Language: English
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Darwin Devolves
- The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution
- By: Michael J. Behe
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance18
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The scientist who has been dubbed the “Father of Intelligent Design” and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for an intelligent creator. In his controversial bestseller...
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Mind Opening
- By Dr Liz Miller on 29-09-19
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Darwin Devolves
- The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 26-02-19
- Language: English
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