A National Geographic Best Book of the Year   In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species - births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex.  But those stories have always been locked away - until now.  W...

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

The best-selling author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived investigates what it means to be human - and animal.  Evolutionary theory has long established that humans are animals: Modern Homo sapiens are primates who share an ancestor with ...

The Book of Humans

Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this.  Racist pseudoscience is on the rise - fueling hatred, feeding nationalism, and seeping into our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even the well-intentioned ...

How to Argue with a Racist

This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is for every one of the 100 billion modern humans who has ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in each of our ge...

We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but are we really any more special than other animals? Humans are the slightest of twigs on a single family tree that encompasses four billion years, a lot of twists and turns, and a billion specie...

Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what's happening in the universe. The Complete (Short) Guide to Absolutely Everything tells the story of how we came to suppress our monkey minds and perceiv...

The Complete (Short) Guide to Absolutely Everything

Joining us in the Audible Studios to talk about his latest title, The Book of Humans, is geneticist, author and broadcaster Adam Rutherford.   An editor of the journal Nature for a decade, genetics expert Adam Rutherford has also produced several sci...

Adam Rutherford

Why did almost all life go extinct 250 million years ago? Why on five other occasions in the geological history has the living world experienced sudden episodes of global mega-death with the majority of species being annihilated? And are humans causing the sixth great mass extinction event in Earth's history? These are among the questions Adam Rutherford explores in this three-part series on extinction. Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. 

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