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This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote future
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.
David Christian is a distinguished professor in history at Macquarie University in Australia and the co-founder, with Bill Gates, of The Big History Project, which has built a free online syllabus on the history of the universe and is taught in schools all over the world. He is also co-creator of Macquarie University Big History School, which provides online courses in big history for primary and high school students. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. He has delivered keynotes at conferences around the world including at the Davos World Economic Forum, and his TED Talk on the history of the Universe has been viewed over 7 million times.
跨度很大然则细节考究,人类出现之后的章节好读,人类出现之前的章节妙趣
评分差不多读了过半人类出现了才觉得好读了。整本书也没啥新知识点。
评分差不多读了过半人类出现了才觉得好读了。整本书也没啥新知识点。
评分跨度很大然则细节考究,人类出现之后的章节好读,人类出现之前的章节妙趣
评分这本书对于我的意义,是对这个广袤无边的复杂世界有个覆盖时空的框架性的认识。从世界的起源到生命的初始,从银河到更遥不可及的星际,人与人、国与国、民族与民族等等边界都变得微不足道到无需提及,是一本帮你带上高倍望远镜遥望远古与未来的书。
“大历史”一词,最初源自美国历史学者大卫·克里斯蒂安开设的一门课程:以枝干分明的框架勾勒出宇宙大爆炸至今的历史,以跨学科的视野讲述这一宏大主题。自此,“大历史”的概念深受学者和知名人士的推荐,相关著作亦不乏来者。大卫·克里斯蒂安本人就针对不同的读者群出版了...
评分一天半的时间阅读完了此书,书中的内容,并不想复述了,因为范围很大,在300页内完成148亿年的故事,自然不会很精。说自己的结论,本书越早期的部分越精彩,因为越早总体越简单,立论合理性更强,到了人类的部分,基本相当于背历史书,XX年人类历史上发生了什么重要的XXX事。让...
评分 评分029|123,《起源:万物大历史》。 这是一本雄心勃勃的书,想把《宇宙的一生》、《物种起源》、《人类简史》整合。 按道理,这是一本符合我“物质历史观”的历史著作。 但我感觉远远不仅于此,可能叙述太宏大,以至于过程中大部分处于非深度辩证思考的现有知识或理论。 笔者分成...
评分Origin Story pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024