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.
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.
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...
評分诚然,宇宙本身谈不上什么意义,意义终归是源于人。“宇宙有什么意义?”神话和宗教学者约瑟夫·坎贝尔曾这样探问,“跳蚤又有什么意义?它就在那里,仅此而已,而你自身的意义正是因为你就在那里”。 为何灵长目动物的脑量这么大?提出这样一个问题好像真是没脑子(请原谅这么...
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评分跨度很大然則細節考究,人類齣現之後的章節好讀,人類齣現之前的章節妙趣
评分起源故事
评分把視角放到能量和信息,頗獨到,有啓發
评分前半部分生詞比較多,後麵到人文就好多瞭。內容沒啥,用來練英語不錯,看中文就不值得瞭。
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