BBC Horizon - The Ghost in Your Genes (2005)

DNA consists of vital information that forms our lives, as known.

However epigenetics changes the view of DNA now.

Can our grandparents, even great grandparents directly effect our well-being?

Or we, humans carry the sins of our ancestors?

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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo - Sean B. Carroll (Audiobook)

"Every animal form is the product of two processes--development from an egg and evolution from its ancestors," writes Sean B. Carroll in his introduction to Endless Forms Most Beautiful. The new science of "evo devo"--or evolutionary developmental biology--examines the relationships between those two processes, embryonic development and evolutionary changes, despite their radically different time scales. Carroll first offers a recap of how genes express themselves in a growing embryo, then peers into the life histories of real-life examples to explain how those genes have changed (or not changed) over millions of years of evolution. Paraphrasing Thomas Huxley, he asks us to consider evolution and development as two sides of the same coin.

The book's second half is where Carroll really gets at the meat of evo devo, explaining how regulatory genes control such mysteries as individual and population changes in butterfly's spots, jaguar fur, and hominid skulls. Evo devo is one of the hottest areas of study in 21st-century biology, and Carroll's outline of the field is a great place to start understanding it. Amazon

Related to: The Making of the Fittest - Sean B. Carroll (Audiobook) 


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What Darwin Didn't Know

This documentary tells how the theory of evolution evolved for 150 years. Evolutionary biologist Professor Armand Marie Leroi discusses the new understandings on theory of evolution under the light of the evolutionary developmental biology (evo devo). Broadcasted on 28 Jan 2009, BBC Four.

Related to: National Geographic: Naked Science - Was Darwin Wrong?


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BBC, BIOLOGY, DOCUMENTARY, EVOLUTION, SCIENCE

An animal and plant lover Jimmy Doherty, who is inspired by Charles Darwin's famous theory, makes series of experiments to reveal the secrets of evolution. Broadcasted on 05 March 2009, BBC 2.

The Other Episodes:
Jimmy Doherty in Darwin's Garden - 3 of 3
Jimmy Doherty in Darwin's Garden - 2 of 3


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Jimmy Doherty in Darwin's Garden - The Storm Breaks (Episode 2/3)

Jimmy Doherty goes on performing Charles Darwin's unusual experiments like feeding venus flytraps with boiled egg, sausage or human urine, tracing the slow movements of plants on the glass, trying to prove peacocks' tails are for sex. Broadcasted on 12 March 2009, BBC 2.

The Other Episodes:
Jimmy Doherty in Darwin's Garden - 3 of 3
Jimmy Doherty in Darwin's Garden - 1 of 3


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Our Origins Made Easy

This is the XviD AVI version of 'The Made Easy' series that I posted here before. The all series are in one file with better quality. You can burn 691 MB avi file to a CD and freely distribute it for educational purposes (the maker of the video gives that permission. Read here).

The video contains informative and scientific subjects from Big Bang to human evolution. It also refutes the arguments of creationists.

Also watch: How Evolution Is Scientific DVD


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BBC Horizon - Nice Guys Finish First by Richard Dawkins (1987)

In this BBC program Richard Dawkins explains how selfish genes can give rise to cooperative altruistic behaviour that was discussed in his book The Selfish Gene. To simulate the evolution of cooperation, he uses a computer program that called Tit for Tat (a game theory for the prisoner's dilemma).


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Richard Dawkins - River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Audiobook)

Nearly a century and a half after Charles Darwin formulated it, the theory of evolution is still the subject of considerable debate. Oxford scientist Richard Dawkins is among Darwin's chief defenders, and an able one indeed-- witty, literate, capable of turning a beautiful phrase. In River Out of Eden he introduces general readers to some fairly abstract problems in evolutionary biology, gently guiding us through the tangles of mitochondrial DNA and the survival-of-the- fittest ethos. (Superheroes need not apply: Dawkins writes, "The genes that survive . . . will be the ones that are good at surviving in the average environment of the species.") Dawkins argues for the essential unity of humanity, noting that "we are much closer cousins of one another than we normally realize, and we have many fewer ancestors than simple calculations suggest."

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond (Audiobook)

Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steelexplained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues, particularly when combined with society's response to (or disregard for) the coming disaster. Still, right from the outset of Collapse, the author makes clear that this is not a mere environmentalist's diatribe. He begins by setting the book's main question in the small communities of present-day Montana as they face a decline in living standards and a depletion of natural resources. Once-vital mines now leak toxins into the soil, while prion diseases infect some deer and elk and older hydroelectric dams have become decrepit. On all these issues, and particularly with the hot-button topic of logging and wildfires, Diamond writes with equanimity. Because he's addressing such significant issues within a vast span of time, Diamond can occasionally speak too briefly and assume too much, and at times his shorthand remarks may cause careful readers to raise an eyebrow. But in general, Diamond provides fine and well-reasoned historical examples, making the case that many times, economic and environmental concerns are one and the same. With Collapse, Diamond hopes to jog our collective memory to keep us from falling for false analogies or forgetting prior experiences, and thereby save us from potential devastations to come. While it might seem a stretch to use medieval Greenland and the Maya to convince a skeptic about the seriousness of global warming, it's exactly this type of cross-referencing that makes Collapse so compelling. Amazon

Related to: Jared Diamond Lectures - Collapse


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On The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin (Edited and Read by Richard Dawkins)

"On The Origin of Species" (or "The Origin of the Species") is a very important work edited and read by Richard Dawkins. This is Charles Darwin's seminal book examining evolution and the origin of species. It is rated by Melvyn Bragg and Radio 4 as one out of 12 of the world's most important and influential books ever published.

"On The Origin of Species must be high on any serious list of the most important and influential books ever written. On its first publication, in 1859, Thomas Henry Huxley exclaimed "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Charles Darwin's revolutionary idea is, indeed, an astoundingly simple one, especially when you measure it against the magnitude of what it explains -- every fact that we know about life on earth.

"Listen to Origin of Species, and you immediately find yourself ushered into the presence of one of the finest minds ever to grace this planet. In this recording, which was a true labour of love, I made no attempt to act the part of Darwin, but instead worked hard, as a modern follower of Darwin, to convey the true meaning of every sentence. I even surprised myself: the exercise of reading Darwin's words aloud and identifying in every phrase the syllable that needed to be stressed, revealed to me the subtleties and depths of meaning that I had missed when reading quietly to myself. I hope listeners will be enlightened in the same way.

"Of Darwin's six editions I chose to abridge from the first. Surprisingly, and in many ways, it is the most modern. Moreover, it is of greatest historical interest, as being the one that actually hit the Victorian solar plexus and drove out the wind of centuries. In abridging the book, my priority was to cut those passages that are now known to be wrong, notably those concerned with genetics. I believe it is what Darwin himself would have wished. What takes my breath away as a modern biologist is how much Darwin got right. It has been well said that he worked a century and more ahead of his time. The year 2009 is both the bi-centenary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species and that statement is becoming harder and harder to deny." Richard Dawkins

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Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (Audiobook)

Dawkins' first book and a good example of popular science writing Selfish Gene is in audiobook format now. The book read by a computer generated voice. So don't expect amazing quality.


File Size: 376 MB

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The Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin (Unabridged Audiobook)

Many people who have "planned" to read The Voyage of the Beagle and been deterred by its length and scientific aspects will find the answer here in a carefully and skillfully abridged edition, cut to half the length, which gives the continuity of text, Darwin's own words, and the observations and episodes that make it memorable as a human document. Here is a classic, the record of an enquiring mind seeking scientific truth. Here is evident the growth of the man. An introductory biography places the importance of this trip in Darwin's life; introductory bits for each chapter provide an analysis of the voyage and its scientific meaning along with the actual text. This work is significant in view of additional material available in the last 35 years, much of it Darwin's own writings, but hitherto unpublished in book form. A bibliography provides not only original sources but additional material for study.

Related to: On The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin (Read by Richard Dawkins)


Number of MP3s: 13
Total Duration: 16 hours 37 minutes
Total MP3 Size: 528 MB

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The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution - Sean B. Carroll (Audiobook)

Picking up where scientists like Richard Dawkins have left off, Carroll, a professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo-Devo), has written a fast-paced look at how DNA demonstrates the evolutionary process. Natural selection eliminates harmful changes and embraces beneficial ones, and each change leaves its signature on a species' DNA codes. While searches for the genetic basis for evolution are hardly new, Carroll offers some provocative and convincing evidence. Publishers Weekly

Related to: Evolution - Douglas J. Futuyma


P. S. Some users warned me about that the version before this post was not complete. This is a different version and complete audiobook.


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The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin (Audiobook + Ebooks in 4 Languages)

This time I present another audiobook version of The Origin of Species (read by David Case) with ebooks in different languages.

Other audibook version: On The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin (Edited and Read by Richard Dawkins)


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Ebooks [English, Español (El origen de las especies), Français (L'Origine des espèces), Italiano (L'origine delle specie)]:
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Richard Dawkins' Books and the Improbability of God (UPDATED!)

6 of Richard Dawkins' books and one article about the Improbability of God.


A Devil's Chaplain - Richard Dawkins has an opinion on everything biological, it seems, and in A Devil's Chaplain, everything is biological. Dawkins weighs in on topics as diverse as ape rights, jury trials, religion, and education, all examined through the lens of natural selection and evolution. Although many of these essays have been published elsewhere, this book is something of a greatest-hits compilation, reprinting many of Dawkins' most famous recent compositions.

The Ancestor's Tale - Just as we trace our personal family trees from parents to grandparents and so on back in time, so in The Ancestor's Tale Richard Dawkins traces the ancestry of life. As he is at pains to point out, this is very much our human tale, our ancestry. Surprisingly, it is one that many otherwise literate people are largely unaware of. Hopefully Dawkins's name and well deserved reputation as a best selling writer will introduce them to this wonderful saga.

The Blind Watchmaker - The title of this 1986 work, Dawkins's second book, refers to the Rev. William Paley's 1802 work, Natural Theology, which argued that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist, the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists. Not so, says Dawkins: "All appearances to the contrary, the only watchmaker in nature is the blind forces of physics, albeit deployed in a very special way... it is the blind watchmaker."

The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins, in The God Delusion, tells of his exasperation with colleagues who try to play both sides of the street: looking to science for justification of their religious convictions while evading the most difficult implications—the existence of a prime mover sophisticated enough to create and run the universe, "to say nothing of mind reading millions of humans simultaneously."

The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition - Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven't thought of evolution in the same way since.

Unweaving the Rainbow - Why do poets and artists so often disparage science in their work? For that matter, why does so much scientific literature compare poorly with, say, the phone book? After struggling with questions like these for years, biologist Richard Dawkins has taken a wide-ranging view of the subjects of meaning and beauty in Unweaving the Rainbow, a deeply humanistic examination of science, mysticism, and human nature.

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Daniel C. Dennett - Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

"A surpassingly brilliant book" - Richard Dawkins

One of the best descriptions of the nature and implications of Darwinian evolution ever written, it is firmly based in biological information and appropriately extrapolated to possible applications to engineering and cultural evolution. Dennett's analyses of the objections to evolutionary theory are unsurpassed. Extremely lucid, wonderfully written, and scientifically and philosophically impeccable. Highest Recommendation!

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond

Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. InGuns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years.Amazon

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GOD: The Failed Hypothesis - How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist - Victor J. Stenger

"Darwin chased God out of his old haunts in biology, and he scurried for safety down the rabbit hole of physics. The laws and constants of the universe, we were told, are too good to be true: a setup, carefully tuned to allow the eventual evolution of life. It needed a good physicist to show us the fallacy, and Victor Stenger lucidly does so. The faithful won't change their minds, of course (that is what faith means), but Victor Stenger drives a pack of energetic ferrets down the last major bolt hole and God is running out of refuges in which to hide. I learned an enormous amount from this splendid book."
Richard Dawkins
Author of the New York Times bestseller The God Delusion


"Marshalling converging arguments from physics, astronomy, biology, and philosophy, Stenger has delivered a masterful blow in defense of reason. God: The Failed Hypothesis is a potent, readable, and well-timed assault upon religious delusion. It should be widely read."
Sam Harris
Author of the New York Times bestsellers The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation


"Extremely tough and impressive...a great book...a huge addition to the arsenal of argument."
Christopher Hitchens
Author of the New York Times best seller God Is Not Great

Many people claims that modern science supports the proposition that God exists, but very few authors have directly challenged this assertion. Physicist Victor J. Stenger points out that if scientific arguments for the existence of God are included in intellectual, not to mention political discourse, then arguments against his existence should also be considered.

In God: The Failed Hypothesis, Stenger discusses that science has advanced sufficiently to make a definitive statement on the existence or nonexistence of the traditional Judeo-Christian-Islamic God.

He puts your minds in a test of scientific method to prove this claim.

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AUDIOBOOK, BIOLOGY, E-BOOK, EVOLUTION, GENETICS, RICHARD DAWKINS

Dawkins' book first published in 1982 can be considered as a sequel to The Selfish Gene. A more detailed looking to evolution and genes. Also according to the Dawkins this one is his best book.

Dawkins argues that the only thing that genes control directly is the synthesis of proteins. He points to the arbitrariness of restricting the idea of the phenotype to apply only to the phenotypic expression of an organism's genes in its own body.

The other books of Richard Dawkins:http://atheistmovies.blogspot.com/2007/08/richard-dawkins-books-and-improbability.html


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Richard Dawkins - The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life (Audio and e-Book)

The Ancestor's Tale is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we and they converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join us at about 6 million years in the past, orang utans at 14 million years, as we stride on together, a growing band. The journey provides the setting for a collection of some 40 tales. Each explores an aspect of evolutionary biology through the stories of characters met along the way. The tales are interspersed with prologues detailing the journey, route maps showing joining lineages, and life-like reconstructions of our common ancestors. The Ancestor's Tale represents a pilgrimage on an unimaginable scale: our goal is four billion years away, and the number of pilgrims joining us grows vast - ultimately encompassing all living creatures. At the end of the journey lies something remarkable in its simplicity and transformative power: the first, humble, replicating molecules.

Just as we trace our personal family trees from parents to grandparents and so on back in time, so in The Ancestor's Tale Richard Dawkins traces the ancestry of life. As he is at pains to point out, this is very much our human tale, our ancestry. Surprisingly, it is one that many otherwise literate people are largely unaware of. Hopefully Dawkins's name and well deserved reputation as a best selling writer will introduce them to this wonderful saga.

The Ancestor's Tale takes us from our immediate human ancestors back through what he calls concestors, those shared with the apes, monkeys and other mammals and other vertebrates and beyond to the dim and distant microbial beginnings of life some 4 billion years ago. It is a remarkable story which is still very much in the process of being uncovered. And, of course from a scientist of Dawkins stature and reputation we get an insider's knowledge of the most up-to-date science and many of those involved in the research. And, as we have come to expect of Dawkins, it is told with a passionate commitment to scientific veracity and a nose for a good story. Dawkins's knowledge of the vast and wonderful sweep of life's diversity is admirable. Not only does it encompass the most interesting living representatives of so many groups of organisms but also the important and informative fossil ones, many of which have only been found in recent years. Richard Wentk, FOCUS MAGAZINE

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