How long does it take to read The Deep History of Ourselves?
The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
The Deep History of Ourselves by Joseph LeDoux takes about 7 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 44 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2019. 422 pages, about 116,050 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This page-turning survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on how nervous systems evolved in animals, how the brain developed, and what it means to be human." --Amazon.
Subjects: Consciousness, Brain, evolution, Nervous system, Physiology, Brain, Evolution
