Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity

wild plants and animals into “domesticated” species that were more useful to humans and were therefore encouraged to multiply ra ...

Lecture 45: Human History and the Biosphere those of the last ice age—but in the opposite direction? We may ¿ nd the answer to s ...

Why has our species had such an extraordinary impact on the biosphere? How can we assess when human impacts on the biosphere be ...

Lecture 46: The Next 100 Years The Next 100 Years ........................................................................ Lectu ...

We will divide the future into three distinct periods. The ¿ rst period, the next century, is close enough to matter—and to be s ...

Lecture 46: The Next 100 Years Yet blocking rising consumption can only lock in existing inequalities and create new conÀ icts. ...

shifting investment to alternative sources of supply. Already, investment is shifting toward technologies that may reduce depend ...

Lecture 46: The Next 100 Years Is it legitimate for historians to consider the future? If so, how should they do it? Are we ove ...

The Next Millennium and the Remote Future ................................. Lecture 47 Is it possible that the dangerous knowled ...

Lecture 47: The Next Millennium and the Remote Future an entire new epoch of human history. Innovation may generate sustainable ...

successor species, just like the Galapagos ¿ nches. Will that mark the end of human history? At larger scales we return to slowe ...

Lecture 47: The Next Millennium and the Remote Future objects will increase, and temperature differentials will narrow. With sma ...

Big History—Humans in the Cosmos ............................................. Lecture 48 Agriculture appeared about 10,000 or 1 ...

Lecture 48: Big History—Humans in the Cosmos Africa. What made them different from all other animals, and enabled them to explor ...

Our planet, like the living organisms that inhabit it, is made up of many different chemical elements, so neither could have for ...

Lecture 48: Big History—Humans in the Cosmos Despite the limitations of any account of big history, the story is one we need to ...

Christian, Maps of Time, 497–99 (a brief synopsis of the modern creation story). Christian, “World History in Context.” What do ...

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