How long does it take to read Biology and Human Behavior?
Biology and Human Behavior by Robert M. Sapolsky takes about 13 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2005. 720 pages, about 198,000 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, is an interdisciplinary approach to the fascinating subject of behavioral biology, a field that explores interactions among the brain, mind, body, and environment that have a surprising influence on how we behave. In 24 lectures, you will investigate how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, constrained or freed by genes, shaped by early experience, modulated by hormones, and otherwise influenced to produce a wide range of behaviors, some of them abnormal. You will see that little can be explained by thinking about any one of these factors alone because some combination of influences is almost always at work.
Subjects: Human behavior, Evolution, Biology, Neurophysiology, Neurochemistry, Neuroanatomy
