How long does it take to read Evolution?
Carl Zimmer, Douglas J. Emlen
Evolution by Carl Zimmer, Douglas J. Emlen takes about 13 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 10 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2011. 718 pages, about 197,450 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Science writer Carl Zimmer and evolutionary biologist Douglas Emlen have teamed up to write a textbook intended for biology majors that will inspire students while delivering a solid foundation in evolutionary biology. Zimmer brings the same story-telling skills he displayed in The Tangled Bank, his 2009 non-majors textbook that the Quarterly Review of Biology called "spectacularly successful." Emlen, an award-winning evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana, has infused Evolution: Making Sense of Life with the technical rigor and conceptual depth that today’s biology majors require. Students will learn the fundamental concepts of evolutionary theory, such as natural selection, genetic drift, phylogeny, and coevolution. Evolution: Making Sense of Life also drives home the relevance of evolution for disciplines ranging from conservation biology to medicine. With riveting stories about evolutionary biologists at work everywhere from the Arctic to tropical rain forests to hospital wards, the book is a reading adventure designed to grab the imagination of the students, showing them exactly why it is that evolution makes such brilliant sense of life. - Publisher.
Subjects: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Evolution (Biology), Evolution, Biology, Biological Evolution, Science
