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Executive Summary
This academic volume serves as a high-level theoretical synthesis for the field of Big History—an interdisciplinary movement that seeks to unify cosmology, geology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and sociology into a single coherent narrative.
Rather than focusing on a single era, the book addresses a single overarching question: By what universal mechanisms does matter self-organize into increasingly complex structures over time? -
Complexity in Universal Evolution: A Big History Perspective by David J. LePoire et a, 2026
This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of how complexity emerges, transforms, and accelerates across the entire 13.8-billion-year history of the Universe. It brings together chapters from leading researchers to explore the deep structure of complexity—
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A Most Improbable Journey by Walter Alvarez, 2017
Famed geologist Walter Alvarez expands our view of human history by revealing the cosmic, geologic, and evolutionary forces that have shaped us.
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Ja, ich bin an sich ein großer Fan von #BigHistory , wie sie z.B. auch #YuvalNoahHarari schreibt. Gleichwohl akzeptiere ich den Einwand von #Schlögel , wonach der Fokus auf #Geschichte als linearer #Zeit schnell den #Raum unsichtbar zu machen droht. Neben dem „Warum dann?“ sollte m.E. auch „Warum dort?“ gefragt werden. Habe so z.B. bei #BwieBerlin die Zeit-Räume von #Kohle und #Erdöl thematisiert, aus denen sich erst #Preußen und das #DeutscheReich ergaben: https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/b-wie-berlin-babylon-preussen-und-der-fossile-faschismus/
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From Stars To Stalagmites by 2012
How Everything Connects
Feynman once selected, as the single most important statement in science, that everything is made of atoms. It follows that the properties of everything depend on how these atoms are joined together, giving rise to the vast field we know of today as chemistry.
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Origins: The Story of the Beginning of Everything
About 13.8 billion years ago the universe was born, with space and time coming into being in the same instant. By the time the universe was 1 second old, the four forces in nature had acquired their present characteristics, elementary particles had obtained their mass, and particles constituting the nuclei of atoms were created.
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The Cosmos Explained: A History of the Universe From Its Beginning to Today and Beyond
The Cosmos Explained is an exciting and beautifully designed book that charts the life of our universe from the Big Bang to the present day and beyond.
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
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?
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Origins : Complexity Rising
18 x 24 inches, Oil on Panel, A new painting from an earlier study.We tend to think of evolution as a biological process of rising complexity that began with single-celled organisms here on earth, but the universe has been undergoing a cosmic evolution of growing complexity from the very beginning.
Before there could be cells, there needed to be complex molecules and an array of elements to make them. -
https://greattransition.org/gti-forum/big-history-christian #bighistory we are each a part of it right now. We are each playing our part & learning.
"Human history has as many unexpected twists and turns as any national or local history, as well as an overarching narrative that can explain our path to the Anthropocene and hint at likely futures."
We just need to choose. -
@bryankam If you like interdisciplinary research, big history is great! A good place to start is Fred Spier's Big History and the Future of Humanity (2015). If you're in for a challenge, David Christian's Maps of Time (2004) is great too. If you just want a quick overview I would recommend Christian's Origin Story (2018), or Walter Alvarez' A Most Improbable Journey for a geologist's approach to #bighistory
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#introduction #akademienl Hi all, I'm Charlotte and I have recently graduated from the history rMA @UvAHumanities My research focuses on early modern human-insect relations. I have also been the TA #bighistory for the last 6 years. Hobbies include reading and gardening 🌱
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@AKK Welcome. I'm very much interested in #BigHistory. #Physics and #Biology are two of its key disciplines, so count me in for those discussions.
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History is driven by surprising events, forecasting is driven by predictable ones.
To this I amend "as practiced". Approaches such as #PeterTurchin's #Cliodynamics or #DavidChristian's #BigHistory, along with other forms of #Systems, #Complexity, #Evolutionary, and #Information based approaches suggest that there may be lenses through which both the past and future become clearer.
I'd suggest that this observation might be most useful for identifying potentially poorly considered history and forecasting practices.
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The Axial Age: Co-emergence of universal empires, religions, and trade & commerce -- Trust
...It is no accident that universal religions appeared when both empires and exchange networks reached to the edge of the known universe. Nor is it an accident that one of the earliest religions of this type, Zoroastrianism, appeared ... at the hub of trade routes that were weaving Afro-Eurasia into a single world system....
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/71a3tx/the_axial_age_coemergence_of_universal_empires/
#dreddit #AxialAge #religion #empire #trust #BigHistory #DavidChristian