Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind audiobook runs 9.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Mitch Riley and Peter Godfrey-Smith (about 6.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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What our data says
- At 9.8 hours, it runs longer than 81% of the 4,248 Lessons in Philosophy audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Peter Godfrey-Smith narrates 4 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 40 hours in all.
About as long, on the Lessons in Philosophy shelf
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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
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind is an audiobook by Peter Godfrey-Smith: a 9.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Mitch Riley and Peter Godfrey-Smith, released November 10, 2020, on the Lessons in Philosophy and Biology & Chemistry shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Mitch Riley, Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Released
- November 10, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Lessons in Philosophy, Biology & Chemistry
- ISBN
- 9781250770080
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind audiobook?
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind runs 9.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.5 hours.
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Who narrates Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind?
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind is narrated by Mitch Riley and Peter Godfrey-Smith.