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9781933782928

Big History

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  • ISBN13:

    9781933782928

  • ISBN10:

    1933782927

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-09-30
  • Publisher: Berkshire Pub Group
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Summary

This volume, BERKSHIRE ESSENTIALS Big History, places the history of humanity and the Earth in the largest of contexts, that of the universe. Big historys interdisciplinary approach draws on archaeology, paleoanthropology, astronomy, and biology to raise questions about the future of our species and its relationship to the biosphere. The articles included, a number of them by big-history specialist David Christian, convey big historys span and scopefrom cosmology, creation myths, and the Gaia theory (in which Earths living and nonliving components exist in harmony), to ices ages, extinctions, and migrations, and to why many geologists today believe the world entered a new geological epoch (the Anthropocene) at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when human activity unwittingly became the single most important force for change in the biosphere.

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