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082			_a909 _bCHR/O
100			_aChristian,David
245			_aOrigin story : _ba big history of everything/ _cby David Christian
505			_aPart 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?
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aWorld history
650			_aCivilization--Philosophy
650			_aCosmology
650			_aHuman evolution
650			_aBiocomplexity
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