The Voyage of the Beagle

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Travels in Alaska

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The Maine Woods

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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them

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California Coast Trails

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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

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The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 1

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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

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Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

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The Meaning of Human Existence

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Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin

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The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom

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The Education of Henry Adams

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The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

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Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History

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Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize

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Origin Of Species by Means of Natural Selection (version 2)

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The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It

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Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840)

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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

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The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War, and the Evolution of Us

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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes

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In Suspect Terrain

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Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

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Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas about Our Planet

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The Voyage of the Beagle

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Radiolab: Mixtape: How The Cassette Changed The World

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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate

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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

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Radiolab: Journey Through The Human Body

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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

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Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy

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Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

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Radiolab: The Feels

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Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most

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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

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The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control

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Thinking in Systems: A Primer

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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

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The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World

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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery

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When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

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Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

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Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

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Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

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Dan Flores | Coyote America

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Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River

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Cosmic Queries – Animal Outlaws with Mary Roach: What happens when nature commits a crime? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Paul Mecurio discuss law-breaking animals with Mary Roach and her new book Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law. Can we hack nature?

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105 Boy dog beach fossils: It was last weekend when we made a long train journey out to the North Essex coast, to reach Walton-on-the-Naze. We planned the trip because our maps showed it to be an area out on a limb, and free of major roads. Finding good potential locations for mak...

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Iconic Ships 14: The San Juan, 1563: A Basque Whaling Ship from the Age of Discovery

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Atlantic Canada: For There Blow Some Cold Nor’westers on the Banks of Newfoundland: Close your eyes and imagine it: Craggy coastlines with the rumble of crashing surf, sand dunes shaped by the wind off the Atlantic, maybe a lonely lighthouse, and lots of green. The air is bracing, carrying the scent of pine and the sea. Atlantic Canada ...

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CMP036 To Ride A White Horse: Pwyll meets a mysterious Lady

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107 Shellness bleak where land meets sea (best heard with time and headphones): This, is bleak. Wave, weather worn, bleak. Windswept, land end bleak. What we've come for. An exposed area of land that noses out into the North Sea. Its tidal zones are made of bleached dry shells instead of sand. Of saline rotted timbered fences, some ...

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Jersey (S5.08): Full shownotes at www.80dayspodcast.com/jersey | Support: www.patreon.com/80dayspodcast In this episode of 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast,we’ll be talking about the Bailiwick of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands lying just off the coast of Northern France. Jersey is a Crown Dependency so is not actually a part of the UK, just like the Isle of Man, which we covered in Season 1. Today, Jersey has a population of just under 100,000, and a total land area of around 120 km2 or 45 sq mi, making it a similar size to the US island of Nantucket, or slightly smaller than our old friend Liechtenstein. While most residents speak English and identify as British, the proximity of Jersey and the other Channel islands to France has heavily influenced their culture and their history, and French is an official second language. Jersey also has its own local language, based on French, called Jèrriais. The island was documented by the Romans, known to them as Caesarea, and was

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Trailer: Pod of Orcas Season Two

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The Gloucester Sea Serpent of 1817: From the ancient pages of the Old Norse Edda to the interwar pages of American adventure magazines, the depths of our oceans have, in imagination, been host to unspeakable monsters for many hundreds of years. In modern times, the phrase “Here Be Dragons...

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July 12, 2019 Giant Water Lily, Captain Cook, Charles Darwin, Henry David Thoreau, Gardens Are for People by Thomas Church, Propagating Pelargoniums, and Yerba Buena: In China, July is the month of the lotus. Recently I shared a video in the from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburghwhich shows Senior Horticulturist, Pat Clifford, teaching their intern Hazel, how to remove the older leaves of the Giant...

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Rene Savenye: Friendship & Fossil Bees

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019 - We call Mike Vecchione on the squid-phone: As promised in the Christmas special, we call the ‘squid-phone’ – a special line used by scientists globally when they seem something strange and squiddy. On the other end of that line is Mike Vecchione, the expert on cephalopods. We talk giant and colos...

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208 Lone tree under windswept telegraph wires: You can imagine them. The telegraph poles. The long line of them that stand along the Creel Path, on the east coast of Scotland. The thousand year old, empty Creel Path, that provides an ancient way between Coldingham and St Abbs.  Imagine them now i...

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The Real Pirates of the Caribbean

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Jersey: Ice Age Island

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MDT Ep. 98: Concerning the Life of Elgar the Hermit and Divine Dinner Delivery

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Episode 206: The Bowerbird and the Victoria Crowned Pigeon: This week let's learn about two birds of New Guinea, bowerbirds and the Victoria crowned pigeon! Both are beautiful and the bowerbird is kind of weird. Thanks to M Is for Awesome for the suggestion! - Further Reading: -

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Before the Pilgrims, there was Fray Marcos de Niza: In this week's episode, we share the story of Fray Marcos de Niza and how Pilgrims were not the first Europeans to meet Indigenous peoples

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February 14, 2020 Broken Plant Pots, Growing Chives, Captain James Cook, The Apple Paring Machine, Henry David Thoreau, Willow, the Philadelphia Botanical Club, A Taste for Herbs by Sue Goetz, Eleanor Bor and The Adventures Of A Botanist’s Wife: Today we celebrate one of Britain's great explorers and the first apple parer. We'll learn about the wonderful willow, and we'll celebrate the very first field trip of the Philadelphia Botanical Club, which happened 128 years ago today. Today's...

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#185 Adventures on Governors Island

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Oh Gnome You Didn't!: On this episode of Expanded Perspectives the guys start the show talking about they're favorite Holiday drinks and then in Italy, the legend of La Befana is one that is popularly told around the time of the Epiphany. What does a Catholic holiday...

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030 – Seamounts with Ashley Rowden: We’ve been off-piste for a while now so we thought we’d jump straight back into the deep sea with a series of episodes on deep-sea habitats. We’re starting off strong with a huge episode on seamounts! We speak to a friend of the show, Ashley Rowden w...

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Freed from the Ice: The Last Entry of the Logbook of the Whaler Swan: Regular listeners will know that over the past few months we have been reading extracts from the logbook of the whaler Swan of Hull at the start of each episode (with the exception of the Iconic Ships and Great Sea Fights special series). The Swan beca...

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July 16, 2020 Hanging Garden Ideas, Tarragon, Elijah Fenton, Camille Corot, Orville Redenbacher, July Flowers in Poetry, Scentual Garden by Ken Druse, and the Charles Clemon Deam Biography: Today we celebrate an English poet who was good friends with Alexander Pope. We'll also learn about the French painter, famous for his landscapes. We celebrate the co-creator of a new hybrid of popcorn called "snowflake." We also celebrate some of the...

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179 Rain scapes special - August intermission 1 (sleep safe): This month we're out and about more than usual so each episode in August will be a special montage. Each will have its own theme. This week's theme is rain.  Here are four glorious rain scapes, from four episodes. Travel between a wide open coastal l...

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Watching Over Western Sandpipers: We visit the Fraser Estuary, where fresh water meets the salty Pacific Ocean in British Columbia, Canada. Scientists are confirming what locals and birders have long known -- these mudflats are a unique and important pitstop for Western Sandpipers during their epic migration.

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The Polynesians: Ancient Mariners of the Pacific: The ancient Polynesians remain the greatest seafarers in history. Already by the time of the legendary founding of Rome on 21 April 753 BC, Polynesian voyagers had crossed huge parts of the Pacific Ocean and settled on isolated islands such as Tonga an...

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Sparkletack weekly timecapsule podcast, San Francisco November 3-9: A weekly handful of weird, wonderful and wacky happenings dredged up from the kaleidoscopic depths of San Francisco history. November 7, 1595: The accidental naming of San Francisco Bay All right. Let's get serious about going back i[...]