Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference by Richard O. Prum

Aliens are Already Among Us by Martin K Ettington

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441769 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441769] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aliens are Already Among Us Author: Martin K Ettington Narrator: Martin K. Ettington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 50 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Biology & Chemistry Publisher's Summary: The focus of this book is on Aliens having visited or living on this Earth. There is lots of evidence that not only are Aliens on Earth during the present, but have been here for thousands if not millions of years. There are lots of stories and some good evidence that this is all true. Even today there are videos of alien craft, and stories in the news about our government still studying and reporting on Aliens visiting us. • What is this evidence of Aliens living on the Earth in the past and currently? • And where do we separate the facts from the fiction? • What technologies might these Aliens have? • And how do these beings interact with our civilization? Lots of information is provided here to help better understand who the aliens are, how many types we know of, and how it might be possible for them to stay hidden on the Earth for thousands of years. Hope your find all this information interesting and it provides you with some food for thought.

Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference by Richard O. Prum

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424917 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424917] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Performance All the Way Down: Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference Author: Richard O. Prum Narrator: Graham Winton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 56 minutes Release date: December 12, 2023 Genres: Biology & Chemistry Publisher's Summary: The idea that gender is a performance—a tenet of queer feminist theory since the 1990s—has spread from college classrooms to popular culture. In Performance All the Way Down, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard O. Prum brings gender performativity into conversation with genetics, development, and evolutionary biology, arguing that the sexual binary is not essential to human genes, chromosomes, or embryos. Our genomes are not blueprints, algorithms, or recipes for the physical representation of our personal sexual essences or fates. In accessible language, Prum shows that gene expression is a material action in the world, a performance through which individuals regulate and achieve their own becoming. Human development is a performative continuum from a fertilized egg to a complex adult with tissues and organs, neurological control, immune defenses, psychological mechanisms, gender, and sexual behavior. This complex hierarchy of self-enactment reflects the evolved agency of distinct genes, molecules, cells, and tissues. Sure to inspire a conversation, Performance All the Way Down is a book about biology for feminists, a book about feminist theory for biologists, and a book for anyone curious about how our sexual bodies grow.

The Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War by Andreas Killen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415752 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415752] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War Author: Andreas Killen Narrator: Graham Halstead Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Biology & Chemistry Publisher's Summary: In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the complex circumstances surrounding the genesis of our present-day fascination with this organ. The 1950s were a transformative, even revolutionary decade in the history of brain science. Using new techniques for probing brain activity and function, researchers in neurosurgery, psychiatry, and psychology achieved dramatic breakthroughs in the treatment of illnesses like epilepsy and schizophrenia, as well as the understanding of such faculties as memory and perception. Memory was the site of particularly startling discoveries. As one researcher wrote to another in the middle of that decade, “Memory was the sleeping beauty of the brain—and now she is awake.” Collectively, these advances prefigured the emergence of the field of neuroscience at the end of the twentieth century. But the 1950s also marked the beginning of the Cold War and a period of transformative social change across Western society. These developments resulted in unease and paranoia. Mysterious new afflictions—none more mystifying than “brainwashing”—also appeared at this time. Faced with the discovery that, as one leading psychiatrist put it, “the human personality is not as stable as we often assume,” many researchers in the sciences of brain and behavior joined the effort to understand these conditions. They devised ingenious and sometimes transgressive experimental methods for studying and proposing countermeasures to the problem of Communist mind control. Some of these procedures took on a strange life of their own, escaping the confines of the research lab to become part of 1960s counterculture. Much later, in the early 2000s, they resurfaced in the War on Terror. These stories, often told separately, are brought together by the historian Andreas Killen in this chronicle of the brain’s mid-twentieth-century emergence as both a new research frontier and an organ whose integrity and capacities—especially that of memory—were imagined as uniquely imperiled in the 1950s. Nervous Systems explores the anxious context in which the mid-century sciences of the brain took shape and reveals the deeply ambivalent history that lies behind our contemporary understanding of this organ.

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439277 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439277] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas Author: Jennifer Raff Narrator: Yvonne Russo, Jennifer Raff, Tanis Parenteau Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Biology & Chemistry Publisher's Summary: From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how humans migrated to the Americas. ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete genomes. ORIGIN provides an overview of these new histories throughout North and South America, and a glimpse into how the tools of genetics reveal details about human history and evolution. 20,000 years ago, people crossed a great land bridge from Siberia into Western Alaska and then dispersed southward into what is now called the Americas. Until we venture out to other worlds, this remains the last time our species has populated an entirely new place, and this event has been a subject of deep fascination and controversy. No written records—and scant archaeological evidence—exist to tell us what happened or how it took place. Many different models have been proposed to explain how the Americas were peopled and what happened in the thousands of years that followed.  A study of both past and present, ORIGIN explores how genetics is currently being used to construct narratives that profoundly impact Indigenous peoples of the Americas. It serves as a primer for anyone interested in how genetics has become entangled with identity in the way that society addresses the question "Who is indigenous?"

Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious by Antonio Damasio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440966 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440966] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious Author: Antonio Damasio Narrator: Julian Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Biology & Chemistry Publisher's Summary: From one of the world’s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of how biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us the tools to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness “One thrilling insight after another ... Damasio has succeeded brilliantly in narrowing the gap between body and mind.” —The New York Times Book Review In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific disciplines have given us  a way to understand consciousness and its significance for human life.   In the forty-eight brief chapters of Feeling & Knowing, and in writing that remains faithful to our intuitive sense of what feeling and experiencing are about, Damasio helps us understand why being conscious is not the same as sensing, why nervous systems are essential for the development of feelings, and why feeling opens the way to consciousness writ large. He combines the latest discoveries in various sciences with philosophy and discusses his original research, which has transformed our understanding of the brain and human behavior.   Here is an indispensable guide to understand­ing how we experience the world within and around us and find our place in the universe.