Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin audiobook runs 7.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 7.4 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 7.4 hours, it is shorter than 61% of the 1,603 Biology & Chemistry audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. narrates 8 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 52 hours in all.
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- Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown
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- The Washington Irving Library
- Barbs from the Bard: Shakespearean Insults with Modern Translations and Notes
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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
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin is an audiobook by Stephen Jay Gould: a 7.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Efrem Zimbalist Jr., released August 1, 1996, on the Biology & Chemistry shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
- Released
- August 1, 1996
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Biology & Chemistry
- ISBN
- 9781597776677
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How long is the Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin audiobook?
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin runs 7.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.
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Who narrates Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin?
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin is narrated by Efrem Zimbalist Jr..