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Origin Story - A Big History of Everything (Paperback)
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Origin Story - A Big History of Everything (Paperback)
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Price R424
Discovery Miles 4 240
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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? Big History
creator David Christian gives the answers in a mind-expanding
cosmological detective story told on the grandest possible scale.
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. 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. This global origin story is one that we could only
begin to tell recently, thanks to the underlying unity of modern
knowledge. Panoramic in scope and thrillingly told, Origin Story
reveals what we learn about human existence when we consider it
from a universal scale.
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