How long does it take to read Mother Nature?
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Sarah Hrdy
Mother Nature by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Sarah Hrdy takes about 13 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 1 minute
A week or two of reading
First published 1999. 710 pages, about 195,250 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 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Mother Nature presents a radical new way of understanding how mothers act and why, and how this new understanding is changing the way scientists think about how evolution works."--BOOK JACKET. "Drawing on anthropology, history, literature, developmental psychology, and animal behavior, Sarah Hrdy examines the distinct biological and genetic elements that constitute maternal instinct. She strips away the biases implicit in conventional stereotypes of female nature to give us very different and provocative perspectives on maternal ambivalence, the links between maternity and ambition, mother love and sexual love, and she explains why age-old tensions between the sexes persist and are being played out today in efforts to control women's reproductive choices."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Evolution, Evolution (Biology), Females, Mother and child, Motherhood, Natural selection
