How long does it take to read Dinosaur in a Haystack?
Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould takes about 8 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1995. 480 pages, about 132,000 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to the centering theme of evolution.
Subjects: Natural history, Evolution (Biology), Natuurlijke historie, Evolutie, Evolution, Historia natural
