The Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution runs 10 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Rick Adamson (about 6.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 10 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 10 hours, it runs longer than 82% of the 4,248 Lessons in Philosophy audiobooks in our catalog.
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About as long, on the Lessons in Philosophy shelf
362 Lessons in Philosophy 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 Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution is an audiobook by David Stipp: a 10-hour unabridged recording, read by Rick Adamson, released September 23, 2025, on the Lessons in Philosophy and Biology & Chemistry shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10 hrs
- Narrated by
- Rick Adamson
- Released
- September 23, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Lessons in Philosophy, Biology & Chemistry
- ISBN
- 9781668652459
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution as an audiobook?
The Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution runs 10 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.7 hours.
Is The Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution?
The Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution is narrated by Rick Adamson.
Is The Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep: And Other Enchanting Stories of Evolution worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.7 hours, saving 3.3 hours.