A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes runs 12.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Adam Rutherford (about 8.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 25 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 12.3 hours, it runs longer than 85% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Adam Rutherford
Adam Rutherford narrates 7 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 53 hours in all.
- The Rutherford and Fry’s Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything
- How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
- The Complete (Short) Guide to Absolutely Everything: Adventures in Math and Science
- The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War, and the Evolution of Us
- The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry: Series 1-10: BBC science sleuths solve everyday mysteries
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,140 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
- Bad Feminist: Essays
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes is an audiobook by Adam Rutherford: a 12.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Adam Rutherford, released September 19, 2018, on the Social Science shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Adam Rutherford
- Released
- September 19, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science
- ISBN
- 9781541479463
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes as an audiobook?
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes runs 12.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.2 hours.
Is A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes?
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes is narrated by Adam Rutherford.
Is A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.2 hours, saving 4.1 hours.