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Big History and the Future of Humanity

ISBN: 978-1-4443-3421-0
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288 pages
March 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Figures.

Preface and Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction to Big History.

2. General Approach.

3. Cosmic Evolution: The Emergence of Simple Forms of Complexity.

4. Our Cosmic Neighborhood: The Emergence of Greater Complexity.

5. Life on Earth: The Widening Range of Complexity.

6. Early Human History: The Emergence of the Greatest Known Complexity.

7. Recent Human History: The Development of the Greatest Known Complexity.

8. Facing the Future.

Appendix: A Short Time Line of Big History.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

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