It takes the average reader 5 hours and 54 minutes to read The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane
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“One of the deepest, most illuminating books about the history of life to have been published in recent years.” —The Economist The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there’s a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first began. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a solution to conundrums that have puzzled generations of scientists. For two and a half billion years, from the very origins of life,...
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane is 352 pages long, and a total of 88,704 words.
This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 4 minutes to read The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life aloud.
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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