Origin Story
A captivating history of the universe from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future.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 way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of Big History, the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going In Origin Story, Christian takes readers on a wild ride through the entire 13.8 billion years we ve come to know as history By focusing on defining events thresholds , major trends, and profound questions about our origins, Christian exposes the hidden threads that tie everything together from the creation of the planet to the advent of agriculture, nuclear war, and beyond.With stunning insights into the origin of the universe, the beginning of life, the emergence of humans, and what the future might bring, Origin Story boldly reframes our place in the cosmos. New Download Origin Story Author David Christian For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr We all have an origin story In some societies, they manifest as creation myths In others, they looklike history textbooks For example, as a kid in the United States, I grew up learning about the group of rebels who stood up to their British overlords and founded our country It s human nature to be curious...A wonderful and relatively compact history book that does its best to tell the history of EVERYTHING, from the big bang to what the future may hold for us and our universe Christian highlights various thresholds that our universe and then our species crossed to take history to its next big level I admire his ability to synthesize information and present it in an easy digestible package for t...excellent book that condenses the entire knowledge on universe into a delightful readHistory of universe and people with timeline in thresholds from one age to another with seven of so thresholds til we get to modern history early on after big bang energy itself split up into 1 gravity, 2 the electromagnetic force, then the 3 strong and 4 weak nuclear forces p.23 electromagnetism is10 to 36th times as strong as gravity p 28 the first living organism as Luca Or LUCA, from last universal common ancestor p 90 symbols deceptively simple words like History of universe and people with timeline in thresholds from one age to another with seven of so thresholds til we get to modern history early on after big bang energy itself split up into 1 gravity, 2 the electromagnetic force, then the 3 strong and 4 weak nuclear forces p.23 electromagnetism is10 to 36th times as strong as gravity p 28 the first living organism as Luca Or LUCA, from last universal common ancestor p 90 symbols deceptively simple words like symbol that carry a huge informational cargo p 174 The principal factor promoting historically significant social change is contact with strangers possessing new and unfamiliar skills p 175 collective learning p 175communities known to archaeologists as Natufians affluent foragers p 196 as they learned what it meant to...An overview of science and history and culture From astrophysics to geology, biology, history You name it, an overview of everything from the Big Bang to today and beyond I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in s...Origin Story does as good a job of covering the big history as is realistically possible for a project of its size There are several interesting facts about the world we live in and the planet we call home However, it...Learned so much from this bookInformative, but rather dry Some pictures would have helped.
- English
- 14 September 2017 David Christian
- Hardcover
- 368 pages
- 0316392006
- David Christian
- Origin Story