How long does it take to read How Humans Evolved?
Robert Boyd
How Humans Evolved by Robert Boyd takes about 9 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 23 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 512 pages, about 140,800 words. Written for children.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Anthropology, Human evolution
