Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA audiobook runs 7.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Marc Cashman (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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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 7.5 hours, it is shorter than 61% of the 1,603 Biology & Chemistry audiobooks in our catalog.
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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
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA is an audiobook by Neil Shubin: a 7.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Marc Cashman, released March 17, 2020, on the Biology & Chemistry shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Marc Cashman
- Released
- March 17, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Biology & Chemistry
- ISBN
- 9780735285248
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How long is the Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA audiobook?
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA runs 7.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.
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Who narrates Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA?
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA is narrated by Marc Cashman.