It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human by Pat Shipman
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A bold, illuminating new take on the love of animals that drove human evolution. Why do humans all over the world take in and nurture other animals? This behavior might seem maladaptive—after all, every mouthful given to another species is one that you cannot eat—but in this heartening new study, acclaimed anthropologist Pat Shipman reveals that our propensity to domesticate and care for other animals is in fact among our species' greatest strengths. For the last 2.6 million years, Shipman explains, humans who coexisted with animals enjoyed definite adaptive and cultural advantages. To...
The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human by Pat Shipman is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.
This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human aloud.
The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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