Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity

Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity « Series from 2024

Series from 2024

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In 48 thought-provoking lectures, traverse the sweeping expanse of cosmic history as seen through the conventional scale of history, the larger scales of biology and geology, and the universal scale of cosmology.

With its awe-inspiring scope, Big History provides you with a new way to understand history and our place in the universe.

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What Is Big History?

Moving across Multiple Scales

Simplicity and Complexity

Evidence and the Nature of Science

Threshold 1—Origins of Big Bang Cosmology

How Did Everything Begin?

Threshold 2—The First Stars and Galaxies

Threshold 3—Making Chemical Elements

Threshold 4—The Earth and the Solar System

The Early Earth—A Short History

Plate Tectonics and the Earth's Geography

Threshold 5—Life

Darwin and Natural Selection

The Evidence for Natural Selection

The Origins of Life

Life on Earth—Single-celled Organisms

Life on Earth—Multi-celled Organisms

Hominines

Evidence on Hominine Evolution

Threshold 6—What Makes Humans Different?

"Homo sapiens"—The First Humans

Paleolithic Lifeways

Change in the Paleolithic Era

Threshold 7—Agriculture

The Origins of Agriculture