Sounded ID: 9780271089744
ISBN: 9780271089744
Publication Date: June 17, 2020
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Language: English
Author Name: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Narrator Name: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions, wolves, dogs, deer, and humans. In this engrossing book, she provides a plainspoken, big-picture look at the commonality of life on our planet, from the littlest microbes to the largest lizards.
Inspired by the idea of symbiosis in evolution—that all living things evolve in a series of cooperative relationships—Thomas leads listeners on a journey through the progression of life. Along the way she ...
An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions, wolves, dogs, deer, and humans. In this engrossing book, she provides a plainspoken, big-picture look at the commonality of life on our planet, from the littlest microbes to the largest lizards.
Inspired by the idea of symbiosis in evolution—that all living things evolve in a series of cooperative relationships—Thomas leads listeners on a journey through the progression of life. Along the way she shares the universal likenesses, experiences, and environments of “Gaia’s creatures,” from amoebas in plant soil to the pets we love, from proud primates to Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers on the African savanna. Fervently rejecting “anthropodenial,” the notion that nonhuman life does not share characteristics with humans, Thomas instead shows that paramecia can learn, plants can communicate, humans aren’t really as special as we think we are—and that it doesn’t take a scientist to marvel at the smallest inhabitants of the natural world and their connections to all living things.
A unique voice on anthropology and animal behavior, Thomas challenges scientific convention and the jargon that prevents us all from understanding all living things better. Narrated by Thomas, this joyful book is a fascinating look at the challenges and behaviors shared by creatures from bacteria to larvae to parasitic fungi, a potted hyacinth to the author herself, and all those in between.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, an anthropologist and animal behaviorist, has published thirteen previous books, including the New York Times best seller "The Hidden Life of Dogs." She lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Learn more at elizabethmarshallthomas.net.
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1. | 00 The Hidden Life of Life intro credits EM FINAL |
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2. | 01 The Hidden Life of Life Dedication and Epigraphs EM FINAL |
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3. | 02 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 01 EM FINAL |
16 mins 55 secs |
4. | 03 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 02 EM FINAL |
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5. | 04 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 03 EM FINAL |
28 mins 50 secs |
6. | 05 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 04 EM FINAL |
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7. | 06 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 05 EM FINAL |
15 mins 09 secs |
8. | 07 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 06 EM FINAL |
26 mins 25 secs |
9. | 08 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 07 EM FINAL |
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10. | 09 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 08 EM FINAL |
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11. | 10 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 09 EM FINAL |
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12. | 11 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 10 EM FINAL |
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13. | 12 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 11 EM FINAL |
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14. | 13 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 12 EM FINAL |
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15. | 14 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 13 EM FINAL |
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16. | 15 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 14 EM FINAL |
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17. | 16 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 15 EM FINAL |
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18. | 17 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 16 EM FINAL |
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19. | 18 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 17 EM FINAL |
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20. | 19 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 18 EM FINAL |
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21. | 20 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 19 EM FINAL |
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22. | 21 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 20 EM FINAL |
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23. | 22 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 21 EM FINAL |
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24. | 23 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 22 EM FINAL |
5 mins 10 secs |
25. | 24 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 23 EM FINAL |
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26. | 25 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 24 EM FINAL |
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27. | 26 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 25 EM FINAL |
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28. | 27 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 26 EM FINAL |
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29. | 28 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 27 EM FINAL |
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30. | 29 The Hidden Life of Life Chapter 28 EM FINAL |
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31. | 30 The Hidden Life of Life Coda EM FINAL |
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32. | 31 The Hidden Life of Life Acknowledgments EM FINAL |
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33. | 32 The Hidden Life of Life end credits EM FINAL |
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