How long does it take to read On Aggresion?
On Aggresion by Konrad Lorenz takes about 5 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1966. 306 pages, about 84,150 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
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About the book
On Aggression (German: Das sogenannte Böse. Zur Naturgeschichte der Aggression, "So-called Evil: on the natural history of aggression") is a 1963 book by the ethologist Konrad Lorenz; it was translated into English in 1966.[1] As he writes in the prologue, "the subject of this book is aggression, that is to say the fighting instinct in beast and man which is directed against members of the same species." (Page 3) The book was reviewed many times, both positively and negatively, by biologists, anthropologists, psychoanalysts and others. Much criticism was directed at Lorenz's extension of his findings on non-human animals to humans.
Subjects: Aggressive behavior in animals, Aggressiveness, Aggressiveness (Psychology), Animal behavior, Mœurs et comportement, Animaux
