“Origin Story, A Big History of Everything”, by David Christian, By any measure the last 75 years, in my lifetime, have seen the largest explosion of knowledge in Human history. For millennia humans have sought the wisdom of the gods; How the universe and humans came to be. I feel very fortunate to have witnessed this epochal achievement/5(). · These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of "Big History," the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going. In Origin Story, Christian takes readers on a wild ride through the entire billion years we've come to know as "history." By focusing on defining events (thresholds), major Brand: Little, Brown and Company. David Christian's Origin Story: A Big History of Everything was my first go at 'big history' ( billion years of it). Christian looked at threshold events the way futurists look at trends and singularities. These thresholds were like transitional mile markers differentiating one order (perhaps by a near extinction event) from the next/5.
Review: Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian Covering billion years in pages, Gerard DeGroot speed-reads the story of how we got here Gerard DeGroot. In Origin Story, Christian takes readers on a wild ride through the entire billion years we've come to know as "history." By focusing on defining events (thresholds), major trends, and profound questions about our origins, Christian exposes the hidden threads that tie everything together — from the creation of the planet to the advent of. "Origin Story, A Big History of Everything", by David Christian, By any measure the last 75 years, in my lifetime, have seen the largest explosion of knowledge in Human history. For millennia humans have sought the wisdom of the gods; How the universe and humans came to be. I feel very fortunate to have witnessed this epochal achievement.
Big History tells the story of the universe from the big bang to the first signs of life to today’s complex societies. It shows how everything is connected to everything else, weaving together insights and evidence from across disciplines into a single, understandable narrative. Origin Story is essentially the Big History course condensed into a short book. It divides billion years of existence into what David calls “thresholds”—moments in history that mark key transition points. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Origin Story: A Big History of Everything (Audiobook) Published May 22nd by Recorded Books. Audiobook, pages. Author (s): David Christian, jamie jackson (Narrator) ISBN Origin Story is an attempt to tell a science-based narrative of the origin of the Universe, life on Earth, and ultimately the fate of it all. The author, David Christian, uses ten cosmic “threshold events” as milestones to mark periods of importance in this timeline.
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