Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels audiobook runs 7.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross (about 4.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 7.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.3 hours, it is shorter than 59% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross
Jonathan Todd Ross narrates 486 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,300 hours in all.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,599 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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
Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels is an audiobook by Stephen B. Heard PhD: a 7.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Jonathan Todd Ross, released March 17, 2020, on the Social Science shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Jonathan Todd Ross
- Released
- March 17, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science
- ISBN
- 9781977300317
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How long is the Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels audiobook?
Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels runs 7.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.9 hours.
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Who narrates Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels?
Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels is narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross.