origin story a big history of everything by david christian

Panoramic in scope and thrillingly told, Origin Story reveals what we learn about human existence when we consider it from a universal scale. This global origin story is one that we could only begin to tell recently, thanks to the underlying unity of modern knowledge. This last mega-innovation gave us an energy bonanza that brought huge benefits to mankind, yet also threatens to shake apart everything we have created. In Origin Story, Christian takes readers on a wild ride through the entire 13.8 billion years weve come to know as 'history. 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. 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? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?īig History creator David Christian gives the answers in a mind-expanding cosmological detective story told on the grandest possible scale. In Origin Story, Christian takes readers on a wild ride through the entire 13.8 billion years weve come to know as 'history. By dividing our universe’s 13.7 billion years of age into eight thresholds, Christian hopes to derive a historical narrative that all humans today can. Print Origin Story: A Big History of Everything In this book, David Christian, who founded the discipline of Big History, presents his three-decade-long work in establishing a history discipline that examines the past since the Big Bang.

Origin story a big history of everything by david christian