The Animal and the Thinker: Instinct, Reason and the Dance of Our Divided Selves: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Animal and the Thinker: Instinct, Reason and the Dance of Our Divided Selves runs 12.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by John Sackville (about 8.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 25 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 12.5 hours, it runs longer than 93% of the 8,456 Mental Health & Psychology audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by John Sackville
John Sackville narrates 156 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,342 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Mental Health & Psychology shelf
511 Mental Health & Psychology 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
The Animal and the Thinker: Instinct, Reason and the Dance of Our Divided Selves is an audiobook by John Duncan: a 12.5-hour unabridged recording, read by John Sackville, released July 10, 2025, on the Mental Health & Psychology shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- John Sackville
- Released
- July 10, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mental Health & Psychology
- ISBN
- 9780753561287
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Animal and the Thinker: Instinct, Reason and the Dance of Our Divided Selves as an audiobook?
The Animal and the Thinker: Instinct, Reason and the Dance of Our Divided Selves runs 12.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.3 hours.
Is The Animal and the Thinker: Instinct, Reason and the Dance of Our Divided Selves free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Animal and the Thinker: Instinct, Reason and the Dance of Our Divided Selves?
The Animal and the Thinker: Instinct, Reason and the Dance of Our Divided Selves is narrated by John Sackville.
Is The Animal and the Thinker: Instinct, Reason and the Dance of Our Divided Selves worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.3 hours, saving 4.2 hours.