The Voyage of the Beagle

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The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth

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Travels in Alaska

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Coming into the Country

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The Patch

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The Exploration of the Colorado river and its Canyons

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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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Life Between the Tides

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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

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Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex

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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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

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

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

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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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Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature

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The Voyage of the Beagle

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The Meaning of Human Existence

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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

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

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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.1

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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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Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace

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The Education of Henry Adams

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

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

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Crossing the Craton

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

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The Songlines

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

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Radiolab: Journey Through The Human Body

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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

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Thinking in Systems: A Primer

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Radiolab: The Feels

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Radiolab: Mixtape: How The Cassette Changed The World

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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

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

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

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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

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

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

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Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

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The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control

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The Gene: An Intimate History

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

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Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

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

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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

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Quantum Physics: What Everyone Needs to Know

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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

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

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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

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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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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

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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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When the FBI Investigates the White House

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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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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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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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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...