How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do audiobook runs 8.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Oliver Wyman (about 5.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 8.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 17 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 8.2 hours, it is shorter than 53% of the 1,603 Biology & Chemistry audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Oliver Wyman
Oliver Wyman narrates 217 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,661 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Biology & Chemistry shelf
292 Biology & Chemistry audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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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
How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do is an audiobook by Sharon Moalem: a 8.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Oliver Wyman, released April 28, 2009, on the Biology & Chemistry shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Oliver Wyman
- Released
- April 28, 2009
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Biology & Chemistry
- ISBN
- 9780061768705
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How long is the How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do audiobook?
How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do runs 8.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.5 hours.
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Who narrates How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do?
How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do is narrated by Oliver Wyman.