Tweet. Obviously, the answer depends on how fast you walk, but the average person, walking without children can walk a mile in about 20 to 30 minutes. In contrast, you can run a mile in 5 to 9 minutes. If there are inhinderances like steep or uneven terrain, add time to your journey.
Thus, the gestation period for humans in days can be calculated as 280 days. However, the actual gestation period, as compared to other mammals, is around 267 days. But then what is the average gestation period for humans? It is taken to be about 259 to 294 days.
Gestation Periods and Animal Scale. The gestation period of humans is 266 days, 8 days short of nine months. Many such biological characteristics have an explanation in terms evolutionary survival value. Even some seemingly cultural characteristics of human society have such a biological explanation.sian elephants have a gestation period of 645 days and African elephants 640 days. Dogs and other canines have a gestation period of about 60, which is also the period for cats. Even within the species of apes and monkeys gestation period seem to be a matter of size.