Big History and the Future of HumanityISBN: 978-1-4443-3421-0
Hardcover
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.