Podcasts about became nature

Crowded subway driving you crazy? Sick of the marathon-length grocery store line? Wish you had a hovercraft to float over traffic? If you are itching to hightail it to an isolated cabin in the woods, remember, we evolved to be together. Humans are not only social, we're driven to care for one another, even those outside our immediate family.   We look at some of the reasons why this is so – from the increase in valuable communication within social groups to the power of the hormone oxytocin. Plus, how our willingness to tolerate anonymity, a condition which allows societies to grow, has a parallel in ant supercolonies. Guests: Adam Rutherford – Geneticist and author of “Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature's Most Paradoxical Creature – a New Evolutionary History” Patricia Churchland – Neurophilosopher, professor of philosophy emerita at the University of California San Diego, and author most recently of “Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition” Mark Moffett – Tropical biologist, Smithsonian Institution researcher, and author of “The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive and Fall” *Originally aired July 22, 2019 Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Crowded subway driving you crazy? Sick of the marathon-length grocery store line? Wish you had a hovercraft to float over traffic? If you are itching to hightail it to an isolated cabin in the woods, remember, we evolved to be together. Humans are not only social, we're driven to care for one another, even those outside our immediate family.   We look at some of the reasons why this is so – from the increase in valuable communication within social groups to the power of the hormone oxytocin. Plus, how our willingness to tolerate anonymity, a condition which allows societies to grow, has a parallel in ant supercolonies. Guests: Adam Rutherford – Geneticist and author of “Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature's Most Paradoxical Creature – a New Evolutionary History” Patricia Churchland – Neurophilosopher, professor of philosophy emerita at the University of California San Diego, and author most recently of “Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition” Mark Moffett – Tropical biologist, Smithsonian Institution researcher, and author of “The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive and Fall” *Originally aired July 22, 2019 Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s easy to see ourselves as separate from the animal kingdom, but Adam Rutherford, author of “Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature - A New Evolutionary History,” believes that we aren’t as different as we might think. Fashion design, interacting with fire, and making multi-step plans all seem like qualities that are unique to humans. But according to Rutherford, species across the animal kingdom - from crabs to birds of prey - exhibit many of these complex behaviors too.

Patt Morrison talks with Adam Rutherford on his latest book Humanimal : How Homo sapiens Became Nature's most Paradoxical Creature.  

It’s easy to see ourselves as separate from the animal kingdom, but Adam Rutherford, author of “Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature - A New Evolutionary History,” believes that we aren’t as different as we might think. Fashion design, interacting with fire, and making multi-step plans all seem like qualities that are unique to humans. But according to Rutherford, species across the animal kingdom - from crabs to birds of prey - exhibit many of these complex behaviors too.

''A heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit of anthropology and plenty of nuanced, captivating storytelling'' (The New York Times Book Review), Adam Rutherford's A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived delves into the ages-spanning story of our species through the field of genomics. A National Geographic Best Book of 2017, it was a nonfiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A University College London PhD and science writer for The Guardian, Rutherford has also written and hosted several programs for the BBC, including Inside Science, The Cell, and Playing God. His new book investigates just what it means to be human. (recorded 3/21/2019)

This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Queenie, Internment, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by You Owe Me A Murder by Eileen Cook from HMH Teen and Hold Still by Nina LaCour from Penguin Random House. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Internment by Samira Ahmed Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor The Word for Woman is Wilderness by Abi Andrews The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington The Witch's Kind by Louisa Morgan What we're reading: Lumberjanes: To The Max Vol. 5 by Kat Leyh, Shannon Watters, et al. Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat by Johnny Marciano, Emily Chenoweth Terminal Alliance (Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse Book 1) by Jim C. Hines More books out this week: The White Card: A Play by Claudia Rankine In the Blink of an Eye by Jesse Blackadder The Parade by Dave Eggers Surviving Global Warming: Why Eliminating Greenhouse Gases Isn't Enough by Roger A. Sedjo Murder Once Removed (Ancestry Detective) by S. C. Perkins Pagan Light: Dreams of Freedom and Beauty in Capri by Jamie James The Perfect Assassin: Book 1 in the Chronicles of Ghadid by K. A. Doore The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert Little Boy: A Novel by Lawrence Ferlinghetti What Makes Girls Sick and Tired by Lucile De Pesloüan and Geneviève Darling Make Me a City: A Novel by Jonathan Carr What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir Of Witness And Resistance by Carolyn Forché Redemption Point by Candice Fox The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley The Good Detective by John McMahon The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey by Margaret Leslie Davis Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies by Edward O. Wilson The Deepest Blue by Sarah Beth Durst The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution-and How We Can Fight Back by Gary Fuller The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner Let Me Out Here: Stories by Emily W. Pease Can't Escape Love: A Reluctant Royals Novella by Alyssa Cole Never-Contented Things by Sarah Porter Meet Me in Outer Space by Melinda Grace Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt Sherwood by Meagan Spooner Tangled In Time: The Portal by Kathryn Lasky Look How Happy I'm Making You: Stories by Polly Rosenwaike The Municipalists: A Novel by Seth Fried Horizon by Barry Lopez Run Away by Harlen Coben Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue by Marc Aronson The Chaos Function by Jack Skillingstead A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian The Fifth Doctrine (The Guardian) by Karen Robards Night Music by Jenn Marie Thorne Save Me from Dangerous Men: A Novel (Nikki Griffin) by S. A. Lelchuk Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature―A New Evolutionary History by Adam Rutherford Einstein’s Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric by Allen Esterson and David C. Cassidy First: Sandra Day O’Connor by Evan Thomas The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature―A New Evolutionary History The Goose Fritz by Sergei Lebedev The Octopus Museum: Poems by Brenda Shaughnessy The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father by Janny Scott All the Fierce Tethers by Lia Purpura Inspection by Josh Malerman High Heel (Object Lessons) by Summer Brennan A Vintage Year by Rosie Howard

This week Alice and Kim talk about assassinations, small town murder, and why women’s bathroom lines are longer than men’s (spoiler: it’s the patriarchy!). This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) (HBO documentary on Theranos)   New Books Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book’s Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey by Margaret Leslie Davis (People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks) Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature―A New Evolutionary History by Adam Rutherford The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Assassination Stories! The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassinationby Barry Strauss Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World by Greg King and Sue Woolmans Reading Now Who Thought This Was a Good Idea by Alyssa Mastromonaco So Here’s the Thing . . . by Alyssa Mastromonaco Kings of Georgian Britain by Catherine Curzon CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork on Twitter RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.