Origin story : a big history of everything / David Christian.
Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day -- and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the w...
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London :
Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Cosmos. In the beginning: Threshold 1 ; Stars and galaxies: Thresholds 2 and 3 ; Molecules and moons: Threshold 4
- Part II: Biosphere. Life: Threshold 5 ; Little life and the biosphere ; Big life and the biosphere
- Part III: Us. Humans: Threshold 6 ; Farming: Threshold 7 ; Agrarian civilization ; On the verge of today's world ; The Anthropocene: Threshold 8
- Part IV: The future. Where is it all going?