The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins runs 9.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by John Sackville (about 6.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 9.1 hours, it runs longer than 61% of the 9,905 Social Science 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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- Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
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- The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
- Serial Killers of Mexico: Chilling Stories of Evil Buried Beneath the Narco Drug Wars
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,916 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
- The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection)
- Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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 World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins is an audiobook by Tom Higham: a 9.1-hour unabridged recording, read by John Sackville, released March 25, 2021, on the Social Science and Biology & Chemistry shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- John Sackville
- Released
- March 25, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Biology & Chemistry
- ISBN
- 9780241992333
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How long is The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins as an audiobook?
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins runs 9.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.1 hours.
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Who narrates The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins?
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins is narrated by John Sackville.