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- Title
- Big history : the big bang, life on earth, and the rise of humanity
- Related
- Great Courses
- Publisher
- Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company
- Date
- 2008
- Author/Creator
- Christian, David
- Description
- "Big History" is a course that attempts to bring an understanding of the past on very large scales. It starts with the origins of the universe and continues to the present-day, with a final lecture which projects into the future. It brings together aspects of astronomy, biology, geology, anthropology and history. This course consists of 48 lectures in 4 parts. The course guidebook covers the 12 lectures. This course is available in DVD, CD and as audio download.
- Description
- Part 1. Lecture 1. What is big history? ; Lecture 2. Moving across multiple scales ; Lecture 3. Simplicity and complexity ; Lecture 4. Evidence and the nature of science ; Lecture 5. Threshold 1, Origins of Big Bang cosmology ; Lecture 6. How did everything begin? ; Lecture 7. Threshold 2, The first stars and galaxies ; Lecture 8. Threshold 3, Making chemical elements ; Lecture 9. Threshold 4, The earth and the solar system ; Lecture 10. The early earth, a short history ; Lecture 11. Plate tectonics and the earth's geography ; Lecture 12. Threshold 5, Life -- Part 2. Lecture 13. Darwin and natural selection ; Lecture 14. The evidence for natural selection ; Lecture 15. The origins of life ; Lecture 16. Life on earth, single-celled organisms ; Lecture 17. Life on earth, multi-celled organisms ; Lecture 18. Hominines ; Lecture 19. Evidence on hominine evolution ; Lecture 20. Threshold 6, What makes humans different? ; Lecture 21. Homo sapiens, the first humans ; Lecture 22. Paleolithic lifeways ; Lecture 23. Change in the Paleolithic Era ; Lecture 24. Threshold 7, agriculture -- Part 3. Lecture 25. The origins of agriculture ; Lecture 26. The first agrarian societies ; Lecture 27. Power and its origins ; Lecture 28. Early power structures ; Lecture 29. From villages to cities ; Lecture 30. Sumer, the first agrarian civilization ; Lecture 31. Agrarian civilizations in other regions ; Lecture 32. The world that agrarian civilizations made ; Lecture 33. Long trends, expansion and state power ; Lecture 34. Long trends, rates of innovation ; Lecture 35. Long trends, disease and Malthusian cycles ; Lecture 36. Comparing the world zones -- Part 4. Lecture 37. The Americas in the later Agrarian Era ; Lecture 38. Threshold 8, the modern revolution ; Lecture 39. The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500-1350 ; Lecture 40. The Early Modern Cycle, 1350-1700 ; Lecture 41. Breakthrough, the Industrial Revolution ; Lecture 42. Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900 ; Lecture 43. The 20th century ; Lecture 44. The world that the modern revolution made ; Lecture 45. Human history and the biosphere ; Lecture 46. The next 100 years ; Lecture 47. The next millennium and the remote future ; Lecture 48. Big history, humans in the cosmos.
- Subject Keyword
- big history
- Subject Keyword
- world history
- Subject Keyword
- Civilization--Philosophy
- Subject Keyword
- Human evolution
- Subject Keyword
- World history
- Subject Keyword
- Audiobooks
- Resource Type
- sound
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Modern History
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/108729
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781598034103
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2007011292
- Language
- eng
