How long does it take to read The Third Chimpanzee?
The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond takes about 7 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1991. 432 pages, about 118,800 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Explores the question of what in the less than two percent of genes has made humans different from apes.
Subjects: Human evolution, Social evolution, Nature, effect of human beings on, Humans, Evolution, Evolutie
