Origin story : a big history of everything/
Christian,David
Origin story : a big history of everything/ by David Christian
Part I: Cosmos
Chapter 1.In the beginning: Threshold 1 --
Chapter 2.Stars and galaxies: Thresholds 2 and 3 --
Chapter 3.Molecules and moons: Threshold 4 --
Part II: Biosphere--
Chapter 4.Life: Threshold 5 --
Chapter 5.Little life and the biosphere --
Chapter 6.Big life and the biosphere --
Part III: Us.
Chapter 7.Humans: Threshold 6 --
Chapter 8.Farming: Threshold 7 --
Chapter 9. Agrarian civilizations
Chapter 10. On the verge of today's world --
Chapter 11.The Anthropocene: Threshold 8 --
Part IV: The future--
Chapter 12. Where is it all going?
This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote future. How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? David Christian gives the answers in a mind-expanding cosmological detective story told on the grandest possible scale. He traces how, during eight key thresholds, the right conditions have allowed new forms of complexity to arise, from stars to galaxies, Earth to homo sapiens, agriculture to fossil fuels. This global origin story is one that we could only begin to tell recently, thanks to the underlying unity of modern knowledge. Panoramic in scope and thrillingly told, Origin Story reveals what we learn about human existence when we consider it from a universal scale.
9780141983028
World history
Civilization--Philosophy
Cosmology
Human evolution
Biocomplexity
909 / CHR/O
Origin story : a big history of everything/ by David Christian
Part I: Cosmos
Chapter 1.In the beginning: Threshold 1 --
Chapter 2.Stars and galaxies: Thresholds 2 and 3 --
Chapter 3.Molecules and moons: Threshold 4 --
Part II: Biosphere--
Chapter 4.Life: Threshold 5 --
Chapter 5.Little life and the biosphere --
Chapter 6.Big life and the biosphere --
Part III: Us.
Chapter 7.Humans: Threshold 6 --
Chapter 8.Farming: Threshold 7 --
Chapter 9. Agrarian civilizations
Chapter 10. On the verge of today's world --
Chapter 11.The Anthropocene: Threshold 8 --
Part IV: The future--
Chapter 12. Where is it all going?
This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote future. How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? David Christian gives the answers in a mind-expanding cosmological detective story told on the grandest possible scale. He traces how, during eight key thresholds, the right conditions have allowed new forms of complexity to arise, from stars to galaxies, Earth to homo sapiens, agriculture to fossil fuels. This global origin story is one that we could only begin to tell recently, thanks to the underlying unity of modern knowledge. Panoramic in scope and thrillingly told, Origin Story reveals what we learn about human existence when we consider it from a universal scale.
9780141983028
World history
Civilization--Philosophy
Cosmology
Human evolution
Biocomplexity
909 / CHR/O